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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
    Polyplacophora
    Gastropoda
      Prosobranchia
      Heterobranchia
      Cocculiniformia
      Neritimorpha
      Vetigastropoda
      Apogastropoda
      Caenogastropoda
        Neogastropoda
          Muricoidea
          Cancellarioidea
          Conoidea
          Buccinoidea
          Volutoidea
          Olivoidea
            Olividae
            Olivellidae
              Olivella
                  Olivella mutica
                  Olivella biplicata
                  Olivella volutella
                  Olivella biminiensis
                  Olivella careorugula
                  Olivella hyphala
                  Olivella klappenbachi
                  Olivella amoni
                  Olivella acteocina
                  Olivella bullula
                  Olivella floralia
                  Olivella fuscocincta
                  Olivella inusta
                  Olivella lactea
                  Olivella minuta
                  Olivella moorei
                  Olivella perplexa
                  Olivella pusilla
                  Olivella rosolina
                  Olivella rotunda
                  Olivella stegeri
                  Olivella thompsoni
                  Olivella watermani
                  Olivella alba
                  Olivella alectona
                  Olivella altatae
                  Olivella amblia
                  Olivella anazora
                  Olivella ankeli
                  Olivella apicalis
                  Olivella arionata
                  Olivella aureocincta
                  Olivella baetica
                  Olivella barbenthos
                  Olivella bitleri
                  Olivella borealis
                  Olivella broggi
                  Olivella cocosensis
                  Olivella columba
                  Olivella columellaris
                  Olivella compta
                  Olivella cymatilis
                  Olivella dama
                  Olivella defiorei
                  Olivella diodocus
                  Olivella drangai
                  Olivella ephamilla
                  Olivella esther
                  Olivella exilis
                  Olivella fletcherae
                  Olivella formicacorsii
                  Olivella fortunei
                  Olivella fulgurata
                  Olivella fundarugata
                  Olivella gaylordi
                  Olivella gracilis
                  Olivella guayaquilensis
                  Olivella guildingii
                  Olivella inconspicua
                  Olivella japonica
                  Olivella kifos
                  Olivella lanceolata
                  Olivella lepta
                  Olivella lindae
                  Olivella macgintyi
                  Olivella mandarina
                  Olivella marmosa
                  Olivella mayabe
                  Olivella mica
                  Olivella micula
                  Olivella miliacea
                  Olivella miliola
                  Olivella miriadina
                  Olivella monilifera
                  Olivella morrisoni
                  Olivella myrmecoon
                  Olivella olssoni
                  Olivella orejasmirandai
                  Olivella pedroana
                  Olivella peterseni
                  Olivella petiolita
                  Olivella plana
                  Olivella plata
                  Olivella prefloralia
                  Olivella puelcha
                  Olivella pulchra
                  Olivella pulicaria
                  Olivella pura
                  Olivella rehderi
                  Olivella riosi
                  Olivella riverae
                  Olivella rubra
                  Olivella santacruzense
                  Olivella semistriata
                  Olivella signata
                  Olivella sphoni
                  Olivella spreta
                  Olivella spretoides
                  Olivella steveni
                  Olivella strigata
                  Olivella tehuelcha
                  Olivella tergina
                  Olivella tunquina
                  Olivella versicolor
                  Olivella vitilia
                  Olivella volutelloides
                  Olivella walkeri
                  Olivella zanoeta
                  Olivella zonalis
                  Olivella poppei
                  Olivella adelae
                  Olivella aureobalteata
                  Olivella scurra
                  Olivella parva
                  Olivella santacruzence
                  Olivella intorta
              Olivellinae
              Olivellopsis
              Janaoliva
          Pseudolivoidea
        Sorbeoconcha
        [unassigned] Caenogastropoda
        Littorinimorpha
        Stenoglossa
        Hypsogastropoda
      Patellogastropoda
    Scaphopoda
    Bivalvia
    Monoplacophora
    Solenogastres
    Cephalopoda
    Placophora
    Aculifera
    Conchifera
    Pelecypoda
    Caudofoveata
    Lamellibranchiata
    Conchifera
  Porifera
  Platyhelminthes
  Nematoda
  Annelida
  Nemertina
  Arthropoda
  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