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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
                Limnocytheridae
                Loxoconchidae
                Microcytheridae
                Neocytherideidae
                Paracytherideidae
                Paradoxostomatidae
                  Acetabulastoma
                  Cytherois
                    Cytherois arenicola
                    Cytherois fischeri
                    Cytherois frequens
                    Cytherois incongruens
                    Cytherois pusilla
                    Cytherois stephanidesi
                    Cytherois succinea
                    Cytherois triangularis
                    Cytherois vitrea
                    Cytherois ikeyai
                    Cytherois australis
                    Cytherois major
                    Cytherois minor
                    Cytherois ovalis
                    Cytherois (Orientocytherois)
                        Cytherois (Orientocytherois) megapoda
                        Cytherois (Orientocytherois) zosterae
                    Cytherois bonaducei
                    Cytherois carcinitica
                    Cytherois cepa
                    Cytherois contortellus
                    Cytherois decorata
                    Cytherois dissimiIis
                    Cytherois gracilis
                    Cytherois lignincola
                    Cytherois joachinoi
                    Cytherois messambriensis
                    Cytherois mutsuensis
                    Cytherois nakanoumiensis
                    Cytherois paralignincola
                    Cytherois pseudovitera pseudovitera
                    Cytherois pontica
                    Cytherois portwelshpoolensis
                    Cytherois tosaensis
                    Cytherois tubipenisfera
                    Cytherois uffenordei
                    Cytherois uranouchiensis
                    Cytherois valkanovi
                    Cytherois wangchieni
                    Cytherois neogracilis
                    Cytherois asamushiensis
                    Cytherois gracilis
                  Paracythere
                  Paracytherois
                  Paradoxostoma
                  Redekea
                  Sclerochilus
                  Nodoconcha
                  Pseudeucythere
                  Boreostoma
                  Austroparadoxostoma
                  Bradystoma
                  Brunneostoma
                  Calcarostoma
                  Chejudocythere
                  Flabellicytherois
                  Glyphidocythere
                  Lanceostoma
                  Neopellucistoma
                  Obesostoma
                  Pontostoma
                  Triangulostoma
                  Violacytherois
                  Xiphichilus
                  Echinositus
                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
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