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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
                Trachyleberididae
                Xestoleberididae
                  Aspidoconcha
                  Microxestoleberis
                  Xestoleberis
                    Xestoleberis aurantia
                    Xestoleberis communis
                    Xestoleberis costata
                    Xestoleberis decipiens
                    Xestoleberis delamarei
                    Xestoleberis depressa
                    Xestoleberis fuscomaculata
                    Xestoleberis gigas
                    Xestoleberis humilis
                    Xestoleberis labiata
                    Xestoleberis margaritea
                    Xestoleberis margaritopsis
                    Xestoleberis nitida
                    Xestoleberis parva
                    Xestoleberis pellucida
                    Xestoleberis perrula
                    Xestoleberis plana
                    Xestoleberis rara
                    Xestoleberis rubens
                    Xestoleberis ventricosa
                    Xestoleberis lenae
                    Xestoleberis toni
                    Xestoleberis grevei
                    Xestoleberis meridionalis
                    Xestoleberis rigusa
                    Xestoleberis kerguelensis
                    Xestoleberis chilensis
                        Xestoleberis chilensis austrocontinentalis
                    Xestoleberis ventribullata
                    Xestoleberis curassavica
                    Xestoleberis punctata
                    Xestoleberis bluemeli
                    Xestoleberis abyssoris
                    Xestoleberis acuminalis
                    Xestoleberis acutipenis
                    Xestoleberis arcturi
                    Xestoleberis africana
                    Xestoleberis angustimarginata
                    Xestoleberis arotron
                    Xestoleberis atra
                    Xestoleberis baja
                    Xestoleberis bahialauraensis
                    Xestoleberis briggsi
                    Xestoleberis broomensis
                    Xestoleberis bulbous
                    Xestoleberis capensis
                    Xestoleberis cauticola
                    Xestoleberis cedunaensis
                    Xestoleberis chaoershuni
                    Xestoleberis chipanae
                    Xestoleberis compressa
                    Xestoleberis cornelii
                    Xestoleberis crenulata
                    Xestoleberis curta
                    Xestoleberis cypria
                    Xestoleberis darwinensis
                    Xestoleberis datelinensis
                    Xestoleberis davidiana
                    Xestoleberis dentata
                    Xestoleberis duemaculata
                    Xestoleberis dichatoensis
                    Xestoleberis dispar
                    Xestoleberis dougiamasorum
                    Xestoleberis duo
                    Xestoleberis dunsboroughensis
                    Xestoleberis entrichos
                    Xestoleberis eulitoralis
                    Xestoleberis exmouthensis
                    Xestoleberis expansa
                    Xestoleberis ferax
                    Xestoleberis fecaloidea
                    Xestoleberis foveolata
                    Xestoleberis fracticorallicola
                    Xestoleberis geraldtonensis
                    Xestoleberis guangdongensis
                    Xestoleberis gracilis
                    Xestoleberis grave
                    Xestoleberis giraulensis
                    Xestoleberis hanaii
                    Xestoleberis hawaiiensis
                    Xestoleberis hopkinsi
                    Xestoleberis ikeyai
                    Xestoleberis insulanos
                    Xestoleberis intermedia
                    Xestoleberis ishizakii
                    Xestoleberis iturupica
                    Xestoleberis kalbarriensis
                    Xestoleberis kalibengensis
                    Xestoleberis kuroshio
                    Xestoleberis kyrtonos
                    Xestoleberis limbata
                    Xestoleberis ligastrillia
                    Xestoleberis luandensis
                    Xestoleberis luxata
                    Xestoleberis maculata
                    Xestoleberis magnoculus
                    Xestoleberis malaysiana
                    Xestoleberis monyui
                    Xestoleberis nana
                    Xestoleberis nemusprevelliensis
                    Xestoleberis notoensis
                    Xestoleberis okinawensis
                    Xestoleberis olivacea
                    Xestoleberis onslowensis
                    Xestoleberis opalescenta
                    Xestoleberis oppoae
                    Xestoleberis oslacunaenis
                    Xestoleberis pachymenica
                    Xestoleberis paraporthedlandensis
                    Xestoleberis planuventer
                    Xestoleberis polita
                    Xestoleberis polys
                    Xestoleberis porilinguata
                    Xestoleberis portaugustensis
                    Xestoleberis porthedlandensis
                    Xestoleberis posidonicola
                    Xestoleberis posterovitrea
                    Xestoleberis praiatofensis
                    Xestoleberis profundis
                    Xestoleberis puntaperonensis
                    Xestoleberis pusilla
                    Xestoleberis quasirotunda
                    Xestoleberis quercallia
                    Xestoleberis ramosa
                    Xestoleberis rangiroaensis
                    Xestoleberis rhomboidea
                    Xestoleberis rigbyi
                    Xestoleberis rotunda
                    Xestoleberis rubrimaris
                    Xestoleberis ryukyuensis
                    Xestoleberis sagamiensis
                    Xestoleberis saxumchinensis
                    Xestoleberis scammonensis
                    Xestoleberis sesokoensis
                    Xestoleberis setigera
                    Xestoleberis setouchiensis
                    Xestoleberis sexmaculata
                    Xestoleberis shutzi
                    Xestoleberis simplex
                    Xestoleberis subarcuata
                    Xestoleberis suetsumuhana
                    Xestoleberis sunwui
                    Xestoleberis symmetrica
                    Xestoleberis tantabiddycreekensis
                    Xestoleberis tetragonos
                    Xestoleberis tigrina
                    Xestoleberis trimaculata
                    Xestoleberis tumefacta
                    Xestoleberis ukbani
                    Xestoleberis umbonata
                    Xestoleberis variegata
                    Xestoleberis wuchien
                    Xestoleberis xaixaiensis
                    Xestoleberis yambaensis
                    Xestoleberis yuchiae
                    Xestoleberis sulcata
                    Xestoleberis basiplana
                    Xestoleberis birkenmajeri
                    Xestoleberis granulosa
                    Xestoleberis paratruncata
                    Xestoleberis reniformis
                  Semixestoleberis
                  Castanoleberis
                  Foveoleberis
                  Ornatoleberis
                  Platyleberis
                  Prunicythere
                  Tanchuanoleberis
                  Uroleberis
                  Paraxestoleberis
                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