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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
    Calcarea
    Hexactinellida
    Homoscleromorpha
    Porifera incertae sedis
    Demospongiae
      Ceractinomorpha
      Tetractinomorpha
      Dendroceratida
      Dictyoceratida
      Halichondrida
      Halisarcida
      Haplosclerida
      Poecilosclerida
        Microcionina
          Iophonidae
          Microcionidae
            Microcioninae
            Ophlitaspongiinae
              Quintoxilla
              Antho
              Artemisina
              Ophlitaspongia
              Plocamia
              Plocamilla
              Echinoclathria
                Echinoclathria schmitti
                Echinoclathria arborea
                Echinoclathria arcifera
                Echinoclathria atlantica
                Echinoclathria axinelloides
                Echinoclathria bergquistae
                Echinoclathria beringensis
                Echinoclathria chalinoides
                Echinoclathria confragosa
                Echinoclathria contexta
                Echinoclathria dichotoma
                Echinoclathria digitata
                Echinoclathria digitiformis
                Echinoclathria egena
                Echinoclathria hjorti
                Echinoclathria inornata
                Echinoclathria leporina
                Echinoclathria minor
                Echinoclathria nodosa
                Echinoclathria noto
                Echinoclathria oxeata
                Echinoclathria papyracea
                Echinoclathria reticulata
                Echinoclathria rimosa
                Echinoclathria robusta
                Echinoclathria subhispida
                Echinoclathria translata
                Echinoclathria waldoschmitti
                Echinoclathria intermedia
                Echinoclathria isochelifera
                Echinoclathria glabra
                Echinoclathria tubulosa
                Echinoclathria gracilis
                Echinoclathria tenuis
                Echinoclathria arenifera
                Echinoclathria ramosa
                Echinoclathria carteri
                Echinoclathria pluritoxa
                Echinoclathria rotunda
                Echinoclathria favus
                    Echinoclathria favus var. arenifera
                Echinoclathria vasa
                Echinoclathria gibbosa
                Echinoclathria foliata
                Echinoclathria levii
                Echinoclathria notialis
                Echinoclathria parkeri
                Echinoclathria riddlei
              Sigmeurypon
              Anthoarcuata
              Clathriella
              Dictyoclathria
              Dirrhopalum
              Echinoplocamia
              Heteroclathria
              Holoplocamia
              Jia
              Lissoplocamia
              Ophlitospongia
              Plocamiopsis
              Protoclathria
              Qasimella
              Anomoclathria
              Quizciona
              Placomia
              Acarnia
              Isopenectya
              Isociona
              Dyctioclathria
            Acarniidae
            Ophlitaspongiidae
          Raspailiidae
          Rhabderemiidae
          Clathriidae
          Acarnidae
          Sollasellidae
          Iophoneae
          Cornulidae
        Mycalina
        Myxillina
        Latrunculina
      Verongida
      Astrophorida
      Chondrosida
      Hadromerida
      'Lithistida'
      Spirophorida
      Petrosida
      Nepheliospongida
      Choristida
      Axinellida
      Agelasida
      Demospongiae incertae sedis
      Verticillitida
      Keratosa
      Myxospongiae
      Gummineae
      Verongimorpha
      Tetractinellida
      Democlavia
    Sclerospongiae
    Hyalospongiae
    Calcispongiae
  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
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Protozoa
Bacteria
Chromista
Archaea
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