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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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Click the links to browse through the WoRMS marine species taxonomy.
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
                  Cluthia
                  Leptocythere
                      Leptocythere bacescoi
                      Leptocythere baltica
                      Leptocythere bituberculata
                      Leptocythere castanea
                      Leptocythere ciliata
                      Leptocythere craterigera
                      Leptocythere crepidula
                      Leptocythere crucifera
                      Leptocythere diffusa
                      Leptocythere fabaeformis
                      Leptocythere lacertosa
                      Leptocythere lagunae
                      Leptocythere levis
                      Leptocythere macallana
                      Leptocythere macella
                      Leptocythere mediterranea
                      Leptocythere micra
                      Leptocythere multipunctata
                      Leptocythere pallida
                      Leptocythere pellucida
                      Leptocythere porcellanea
                      Leptocythere psammophila
                      Leptocythere ramosa
                      Leptocythere rara
                      Leptocythere tenera
                      Leptocythere angusta
                      Leptocythere mosleyi
                      Leptocythere patagonica
                      Leptocythere nikraveshae
                      Leptocythere canaliculata
                      Leptocythere confusa
                      Leptocythere costata
                      Leptocythere corallicola
                      Leptocythere cranekeyensis
                      Leptocythere dwarfia
                      Leptocythere demissa
                      Leptocythere devexa
                      Leptocythere elegans
                      Leptocythere foveata
                      Leptocythere gracilis
                      Leptocythere hartmanni
                      Leptocythere lacustris
                      Leptocythere lopatica
                      Leptocythere major
                      Leptocythere muellerfabaeformis
                      Leptocythere nitida
                      Leptocythere quinquetuberculata
                      Leptocythere striatocostata
                      Leptocythere ochracea
                      Leptocythere petiti
                      Leptocythere polymorpha
                      Leptocythere punctatella
                      Leptocythere relicta
                      Leptocythere swansoni
                      Leptocythere ventriclivosa
                      Leptocythere yoni
                      Leptocythere hangyongensis
                      Leptocythere keiji
                      Leptocythere murrayana
                      Leptocythere ornata
                      Leptocythere pulchra
                      Leptocythere darwini
                      Leptocythere santacruzensis
                  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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