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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
                Krithidae
                Leptocytheridae
                  Callistocythere
                      Callistocythere adriatica
                      Callistocythere badia
                      Callistocythere craterigera
                      Callistocythere crispata
                      Callistocythere crucifera
                      Callistocythere diffusa
                      Callistocythere discrepans
                      Callistocythere flavidofusca
                      Callistocythere folliculosa
                      Callistocythere foveata
                      Callistocythere gilva
                      Callistocythere intricatoides
                      Callistocythere littoralis
                      Callistocythere lobiancoi
                      Callistocythere mediterranea
                      Callistocythere murrayi
                      Callistocythere pallida
                      Callistocythere praecincta
                      Callistocythere rastrifera
                      Callistocythere taeniata
                      Callistocythere vexata
                      Callistocythere dispersocostata
                      Callistocythere cranekeyensis
                      Callistocythere abjecta
                      Callistocythere akabashia
                      Callistocythere alata
                      Callistocythere arcana
                      Callistocythere arcuata
                      Callistocythere arenicola
                      Callistocythere asiatica
                      Callistocythere besani
                      Callistocythere bonaducei
                      Callistocythere chihyunga
                      Callistocythere crenata
                      Callistocythere dedeckkeri
                      Callistocythere dinglei
                      Callistocythere dorsotuberculata
                      Callistocythere elena
                      Callistocythere eulitoralis
                      Callistocythere eugenia
                      Callistocythere fisheri
                      Callistocythere fossulata
                      Callistocythere hartmanni
                      Callistocythere hayamensis
                      Callistocythere hotaru
                      Callistocythere innominata
                      Callistocythere insolita
                      Callistocythere ishizakii
                      Callistocythere janiceburrowsae
                      Callistocythere japonica
                      Callistocythere keiji
                      Callistocythere laminata
                      Callistocythere litoralensis
                      Callistocythere mosleyi
                      Callistocythere multirugosa
                      Callistocythere multicellulosa
                      Callistocythere murrayana
                      Callistocythere neoplana
                      Callistocythere nucleoperiscum
                      Callistocythere obtusa
                      Callistocythere ovata
                      Callistocythere ornata
                      Callistocythere protracta
                      Callistocythere puri
                      Callistocythere reticulata
                      Callistocythere rugosa
                      Callistocythere shuliana
                      Callistocythere sigmocostelata
                      Callistocythere sinensis
                      Callistocythere subjaponica
                      Callistocythere tateyamensis
                      Callistocythere tientaolis
                      Callistocythere tihaoa
                      Callistocythere undata
                      Callistocythere undulatifacialis
                      Callistocythere ventrolata
                      Callistocythere windangensis
                      Callistocythere yanghui
                      Callistocythere asperereticulata
                      Callistocythere rioplatensis
                  Cluthia
                  Leptocythere
                  Palusleptocythere
                  Amnicythere
                  Bisulcocythere
                  Caudoleptocythere
                  Chartocythere
                  Ishizakiella
                  Gambiella
                  Mediocytherideis
                  Mesocythere
                  Neocytheromorpha
                  Paratanella
                  Tanella
                  Swansonella
                  Vandiemencythere
                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
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