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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
              Cytheroidea
                Bythocytheridae
                Cuneocytheridae
                Cushmanideidae
                Cytherettidae
                Cytheridae
                Cytherideidae
                Cytheroidea incertae sedis
                Cytheromatidae
                Cytheruridae
                Eucytheridae
                Hemicytheridae
                  Aurila
                      Aurila arborescens
                      Aurila convexa
                      Aurila cymbaeformis
                      Aurila glyptica
                      Aurila interpretis
                      Aurila prasina
                      Aurila punctata
                      Aurila speyeri
                      Aurila woutersi
                      Aurila ornellasae
                      Aurila acostata
                      Aurila amygdala
                      Aurila buhyui
                      Aurila calendula
                      Aurila cheejihe
                      Aurila chejuensis
                      Aurila chengluwan
                      Aurila choeae
                      Aurila cicatricosa
                      Aurila conradi
                      Aurila convergens
                      Aurila corniculata
                      Aurila cymba
                      Aurila dayii
                      Aurila discophora
                      Aurila disparata
                      Aurila duboskyi
                      Aurila elongata
                      Aurila ephippiata
                      Aurila fallax
                      Aurila floridana
                      Aurila frequens
                      Aurila hataii
                      Aurila imotoi
                      Aurila inabai
                      Aurila jonesi
                      Aurila kiritsubo
                      Aurila kliei
                      Aurila laeviculoidea
                      Aurila levetzovi
                      Aurila lincolnensis
                      Aurila maculosa
                      Aurila magna
                      Aurila mesodiscus
                      Aurila miii
                      Aurila montereyensis
                      Aurila munechikai
                      Aurila munida
                      Aurila nandua
                      Aurila oblanga
                      Aurila okayamensis
                      Aurila petricola
                      Aurila pseudocymbaformis
                      Aurila recurvirostra
                      Aurila spinifera
                      Aurila taeniata
                      Aurila tosaensis
                      Aurila uranouchiensis
                      Aurila woodwardii
                      Aurila yongchiena
                      Aurila confragosa
                      Aurila pseudoamygdala
                      Aurila meridionalis
                      Aurila radiata
                  Baffinicythere
                  Caudites
                  Elofsonella
                  Finmarchinella
                  Hemicythere
                  Heterocythereis
                  Muellerina
                  Tenedocythere
                  Urocythereis
                  Hermanites
                  Harleya
                  Australicythere
                  Patagonacythere
                  Bradleya
                  Meridionalicythere
                  Austroaurila
                  Falklandia
                  Procythereis
                  Jugosocythereis
                  Malzella
                  Neocaudites
                  Orionina
                  Puriana
                  Radimella
                  Ambostracon
                  Anterocythere
                  Auradilus
                  Bensonocythere
                  Bosasella
                  Brasilicythere
                  Collarodontia
                  Cornucoquimba
                  Daishakacythere
                  Hemicytheria
                  Hemicytheridea
                  Jacobella
                  Johnnealella
                  Laperousecythere
                  Matsucythere
                  Nanocoquimba
                  Neobuntonia
                  Neohornibrookella
                  Neosinocythere
                  Nereina
                  Nodocoquimba
                  Palaciosa
                  Parahermanites
                  Paraquadracythere
                  Pseudoaurila
                  Robustaurila
                  Ruggiericythere
                  Shungyangella
                  Sinocythere
                  Sinoradimella
                  Tricoquimba
                  Tyrrhenocythere
                  Waiparacythereis
                  Yezocythere
                  Hemicytherinae
                  Favella
                  Reussicythere
                Krithidae
                Leptocytheridae
                Limnocytheridae
                Loxoconchidae
                Microcytheridae
                Neocytherideidae
                Paracytherideidae
                Paradoxostomatidae
                Trachyleberididae
                Xestoleberididae
                Xestoleberidae
                Terrestricytheridae
                Entocytheridae
                Australocytherideidae
                Cobanocytheridae
                Cytheralisonidae
                Kliellidae
                Osticytheridae
                Paracytheridae
                Parvocytheridae
                Pectocytheridae
                Protocytheridae
                Psammocytheridae
                Saididae
                Schizocytheridae
                Speluncellidae
                Thaerocytheridae
                Bonaducecytheridae
                Progonocytheridae
                Flexuocythere
            Cypridocopina
            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
Plantae
Fungi
Protozoa
Bacteria
Chromista
Archaea
Viruses
Monera