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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
    Polyplacophora
    Gastropoda
      Prosobranchia
      Heterobranchia
      Cocculiniformia
      Neritimorpha
      Vetigastropoda
      Apogastropoda
      Caenogastropoda
        Neogastropoda
          Muricoidea
          Cancellarioidea
          Conoidea
          Buccinoidea
          Volutoidea
          Olivoidea
            Olividae
              Amalda
                Amalda borshengi
                Amalda josecarlosi
                Amalda australis
                Amalda bathamae
                Amalda benthicola
                Amalda depressa
                Amalda edithae
                Amalda festiva
                Amalda marginata
                Amalda mucronata
                Amalda northlandica
                Amalda novaezelandiae
                Amalda oblonga
                Amalda petterdi
                Amalda raoulensis
                Amalda rubrofasciata
                Amalda southlandica
                Amalda allaryi
                Amalda ampla
                Amalda angustata
                Amalda aureomarginata
                Amalda bellonarum
                Amalda booleyi
                Amalda bullioides
                Amalda callifera
                Amalda contusa
                Amalda coriolis
                Amalda elongata
                Amalda errorum
                Amalda fasciata
                Amalda fuscolingua
                Amalda hilgendorfi
                    Amalda hilgendorfi herlaari
                    Amalda hilgendorfi richeri
                    Amalda hilgendorfi hilgendorfi
                Amalda jenneri
                Amalda lemaitrei
                Amalda montrouzieri
                Amalda maritzae
                Amalda obesa
                Amalda obtusa
                Amalda optima
                Amalda reevei
                Amalda similis
                Amalda trachyzonus
                Amalda vernedei
                Amalda acuta
                Amalda albanyensis
                Amalda albicallosa
                Amalda aureus
                Amalda beachportensis
                Amalda bullosa
                Amalda coccinata
                Amalda coenobium
                Amalda colemani
                Amalda concinna
                Amalda crosnieri
                Amalda cupedula
                Amalda danilai
                Amalda dimidiata
                Amalda dyspetes
                Amalda edgariana
                Amalda hinomotoensis
                Amalda lactea
                Amalda lanceolata
                Amalda lindae
                Amalda lineata
                Amalda lochii
                Amalda mamillata
                Amalda monilifera
                Amalda nitidanosum
                Amalda otohime
                Amalda pacei
                Amalda pinguis
                Amalda ponderi
                Amalda procerum
                Amalda pullarium
                Amalda roscoae
                Amalda rottnestensis
                Amalda rubiginosa
                Amalda scopuloceti
                Amalda siberutensis
                Amalda sidneyensis
                Amalda sinensis
                Amalda tankervillei
                Amalda telaaraneae
                Amalda tenuis
                Amalda tindalli
                Amalda trippneri
                Amalda turgida
                Amalda utopica
                Amalda venezuela
                Amalda virgineus
                Amalda whatmoughi
                Amalda abyssicola
                Amalda aureocallosa
                Amalda sibuatae
                Amalda tankervillii
                Amalda albocallosa
                Amalda virginea
                Amalda procera
              Olivinae
              Ancillariinae
              Spirancilla
            Olivellidae
          Pseudolivoidea
        Sorbeoconcha
        [unassigned] Caenogastropoda
        Littorinimorpha
        Stenoglossa
        Hypsogastropoda
      Patellogastropoda
    Scaphopoda
    Bivalvia
    Monoplacophora
    Solenogastres
    Cephalopoda
    Placophora
    Aculifera
    Conchifera
    Pelecypoda
    Caudofoveata
    Lamellibranchiata
    Conchifera
  Porifera
  Platyhelminthes
  Nematoda
  Annelida
  Nemertina
  Arthropoda
  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