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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
      Ostracoda
        Myodocopa
        Podocopa
          Podocopida
            Bairdiocopina
            Cytherocopina
            Cypridocopina
              Cypridoidea
              Macrocypridoidea
              Pontocypridoidea
                Pontocyprididae
                  Argilloecia
                  Pontocypria
                  Pontocypris
                  Propontocypris
                    Propontocypris acuminata
                    Propontocypris declivis
                    Propontocypris dispar
                    Propontocypris intermedia
                    Propontocypris pellucida
                    Propontocypris serrata
                    Propontocypris subfusca
                    Propontocypris inflata
                    Propontocypris sahrhagei
                    Propontocypris mcmurdoensis
                    Propontocypris multiporifera
                    Propontocypris (Propontocypris)
                    Propontocypris (Ekpontocypris)
                    Propontocypris (Schedopontocypris)
                        Propontocypris (Schedopontocypris) succinea
                        Propontocypris (Schedopontocypris) insulelephantensis
                        Propontocypris (Schedopontocypris) bengalensis
                        Propontocypris (Schedopontocypris) calderensis
                        Propontocypris (Schedopontocypris) flava
                        Propontocypris (Schedopontocypris) gaussi
                        Propontocypris (Schedopontocypris) howei
                        Propontocypris (Schedopontocypris) inflata
                        Propontocypris (Schedopontocypris) josephineae
                        Propontocypris (Schedopontocypris) levis
                        Propontocypris (Schedopontocypris) maculata
                        Propontocypris (Schedopontocypris) pellucida
                        Propontocypris (Schedopontocypris) postconcava
                        Propontocypris (Schedopontocypris) sahrhagei
                        Propontocypris (Schedopontocypris) simplex
                        Propontocypris (Schedopontocypris) subfusca
                        Propontocypris (Schedopontocypris) ovata
                    Propontocypris argilloecoides
                    Propontocypris albaniensis
                    Propontocypris attenuata
                    Propontocypris bengalensis
                    Propontocypris cedunaensis
                    Propontocypris cervantesensis
                    Propontocypris epicyrta
                    Propontocypris geraldtonense
                    Propontocypris herdmani
                    Propontocypris japonica
                    Propontocypris lobodonta
                    Propontocypris lurida
                    Propontocypris minacis
                    Propontocypris monstrosa
                    Propontocypris onslowensis
                    Propontocypris paradispar
                    Propontocypris quasicrocata
                    Propontocypris sicula
                    Propontocypris solida
                    Propontocypris subreniformis
                    Propontocypris symmetrica
                    Propontocypris crocata
                    Propontocypris pirifera
                    Propontocypris setosa
                    Propontocypris succinea
                    Propontocypris trigonella
                    Propontocypris insulelephantensis
                    Propontocypris parasimplex
                  Australoecia
                  Abyssocypris
                  Aratrocypris
                  Erythrocypris
                  Iliffeoecia
                  Maddocksella
                  Peripontocypris
                  Thomontocypris
                  Pontocyprella
            Sigilliocopina
          Platycopida
          Palaeocopida
        Palaeocopa
      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
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