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You can also find a marine species by browsing through the WoRMS taxonomy on the right hand side.

The taxonomy here displays all parent and child nodes of the taxonomy that are tagged as accepted or synonymised. Only species tagged as marine are shown (so you may find some parent nodes with no species within them).

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Animalia
  Mollusca
  Porifera
  Platyhelminthes
  Nematoda
  Annelida
  Nemertina
  Arthropoda
    Crustacea
      Remipedia
      Branchiopoda
      Maxillopoda
      Malacostraca
        Eumalacostraca
          Eucarida
            Euphausiacea
            Amphionidacea
            Decapoda
              Dendrobranchiata
              Pleocyemata
                Anomura
                  Galatheoidea
                    Galatheidae
                    Porcellanidae
                      Pisidia
                      Porcellana
                      Polyonyx
                      Pachycheles
                      Porcellanella
                      Neopetrolisthes
                      Petrolisthes
                          Petrolisthes asiaticus
                          Petrolisthes boscii
                          Petrolisthes leptocheles
                          Petrolisthes trivirgatus
                          Petrolisthes carinipes
                          Petrolisthes ornatus
                          Petrolisthes decacanthus
                          Petrolisthes militaris
                          Petrolisthes moluccensis
                          Petrolisthes coccineus
                          Petrolisthes virgatus
                          Petrolisthes pubescens
                          Petrolisthes tomentosus
                          Petrolisthes lamarckii
                          Petrolisthes rufescens
                          Petrolisthes marginatus
                          Petrolisthes sanmartini
                          Petrolisthes bolivarensis
                          Petrolisthes bifidus
                          Petrolisthes hispaniolensis
                          Petrolisthes armatus
                          Petrolisthes elongatus
                          Petrolisthes aegyptiacus
                          Petrolisthes bispinosus
                          Petrolisthes celebesensis
                          Petrolisthes donanensis
                          Petrolisthes eldredgei
                          Petrolisthes elegans
                          Petrolisthes fimbriatus
                          Petrolisthes haplodactylus
                          Petrolisthes heterochrous
                          Petrolisthes japonicus
                          Petrolisthes kranjiensis
                          Petrolisthes limicola
                          Petrolisthes masakii
                          Petrolisthes mesodactylon
                          Petrolisthes miyakei
                          Petrolisthes nanshensis
                          Petrolisthes novaezelandiae
                          Petrolisthes obtusifrons
                          Petrolisthes perdecorus
                          Petrolisthes squamanus
                          Petrolisthes trilobatus
                          Petrolisthes unilobatus
                          Petrolisthes borradailei
                          Petrolisthes extremus
                          Petrolisthes haswelli
                          Petrolisthes scabriculus
                          Petrolisthes teres
                          Petrolisthes amoenus
                          Petrolisthes caribensis
                          Petrolisthes galathinus
                          Petrolisthes jugosus
                          Petrolisthes politus
                          Petrolisthes quadratus
                          Petrolisthes columbiensis
                          Petrolisthes dissimulatus
                          Petrolisthes gertrudae
                          Petrolisthes lindae
                          Petrolisthes magdalenensis
                          Petrolisthes robsonae
                          Petrolisthes rosariensis
                          Petrolisthes tonsorius
                          Petrolisthes tridentatus
                          Petrolisthes agassizii
                          Petrolisthes artifrons
                          Petrolisthes brachycarpus
                          Petrolisthes cabrilloi
                          Petrolisthes cinctipes
                          Petrolisthes cocoensis
                          Petrolisthes crenulatus
                          Petrolisthes desmarestii
                          Petrolisthes donadio
                          Petrolisthes edwardsii
                          Petrolisthes eriomerus
                          Petrolisthes galapagensis
                          Petrolisthes glasselli
                          Petrolisthes gracilis
                            Petrolisthes gracilis var. brachycarpus
                          Petrolisthes granulosus
                          Petrolisthes haigae
                          Petrolisthes hians
                          Petrolisthes hirtipes
                          Petrolisthes hirtispinosus
                          Petrolisthes holotrichus
                          Petrolisthes laevigatus
                          Petrolisthes lewisi
                          Petrolisthes manimaculis
                          Petrolisthes nigrunguiculatus
                          Petrolisthes nobilii
                          Petrolisthes ortmanni
                          Petrolisthes platymerus
                          Petrolisthes polymitus
                          Petrolisthes rathbunae
                          Petrolisthes sanfelipensis
                          Petrolisthes schmitti
                          Petrolisthes tiburonensis
                          Petrolisthes tuberculatus
                          Petrolisthes tuberculosus
                          Petrolisthes violaceus
                          Petrolisthes zacae
                          Petrolisthes melini
                          Petrolisthes monodi
                          Petrolisthes costai
                          Petrolisthes reissi
                          Petrolisthes gibbosicarpus
                          Petrolisthes serratus
                          Petrolisthes similis
                          Petrolisthes iheringi
                          Petrolisthes leporinoides
                          Petrolisthes yaeyamensis
                          Petrolisthes rugosus
                          Petrolisthes amakusensis
                          Petrolisthes cabrilloa
                          Petrolisthes nipponensis
                          Petrolisthes occidentalis
                          Petrolisthes occidentalis
                          Petrolisthes brasiliensis
                          Petrolisthes gracilis
                          Petrolisthes tenkatei
                          Petrolisthes marginatus
                          Petrolisthes cecoci
                          Petrolisthes annulipes
                          Petrolisthes stewarti
                          Petrolisthes varicolor
                          Petrolisthes rathbunae
                          Petrolisthes felipensis
                          Petrolisthes inermis
                          Petrolisthes tridentatus
                      Aliaporcellana
                      Capilliporcellana
                      Enosteoides
                      Heteropolyonyx
                      Lissoporcellana
                      Petrocheles
                      Novorostrum
                      Raphidopus
                      Eulenaios
                      Pseudoporcellanella
                      Ancylocheles
                      Heteroporcellana
                      Allopetrolisthes
                      Clastotoechus
                      Euceramus
                      Liopetrolisthes
                      Madarateuchus
                      Megalobrachium
                      Neopisosoma
                      Parapetrolisthes
                      Minyocerus
                      Orthochela
                      Ulloaia
                      Porcellanopsis
                      Porcellanides
                      Porcellina
                      Pisosoma
                      Streptochirus
                      Platycheles
                      Enostea
                      Polyonix
                      Percellana
                    Munidopsidae
                    Munididae
                  Hippoidea
                  Paguroidea
                  Lithodoidea
                  Kiwaoidea
                  Chirostyloidea
                Brachyura
                Caridea
                Palinura
                Stenopodidea
                Thalassinidea
          Peracarida
        Hoplocarida
      Ostracoda
      Pentastomata
    Chelicerata
    Myriapoda
    Hexapoda
  Ctenophora
  Cnidaria
  Sipuncula
  Echiura
  Pogonophora
  Entoprocta
  Tardigrada
  Phoronida
  Brachiopoda
  Echinodermata
  Hemichordata
  Chordata
  Gastrotricha
  Chaetognatha
  Ectoprocta
  Mesozoa
  Rotifera
  Gnathostomulida
  Acanthocephala
  Cycliophora
  Cephalorhyncha
  Placozoa
  Bryozoa
  Myxozoa
  Sipunculida
  Pentastomida
  Nemertini
Plantae
Fungi
Protozoa
Bacteria
Chromista
Archaea
Viruses
Monera