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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
        Eumalacostraca
          Eucarida
          Peracarida
            Isopoda
            Tanaidacea
            Amphipoda
              Hyperiidea
              Caprellidea
              Gammaridea
              Ingolfiellidea
              Corophiidea
                Caprellida
                Corophiida
                  Ampithoidae
                    Amphitholina
                    Ampithoe
                      Ampithoe fastidiosa
                      Ampithoe ferox
                      Ampithoe gammaroides
                      Ampithoe helleri
                      Ampithoe littorina
                      Ampithoe neglecta
                      Ampithoe pomboi
                      Ampithoe ramondi
                      Ampithoe riedli
                      Ampithoe rubricata
                      Ampithoe spuria
                      Ampithoe vaillanti
                      Ampithoe valida
                      Ampithoe longimana
                      Ampithoe africana
                      Ampithoe kergueleni
                      Ampithoe seticoxae
                      Ampithoe lafkui
                      Ampithoe laxipodus
                      Ampithoe longicarpus
                      Ampithoe mascarenensis
                      Ampithoe marcuzzii
                      Ampithoe akuolaka
                      Ampithoe aptos
                      Ampithoe auriculata
                      Ampithoe australiensis
                      Ampithoe boecki
                      Ampithoe cinerea
                      Ampithoe dalli
                      Ampithoe djakonovi
                      Ampithoe flindersi
                      Ampithoe grubriformis
                      Ampithoe guaspare
                      Ampithoe hinatore
                      Ampithoe kaneohe
                      Ampithoe kava
                      Ampithoe kuala
                      Ampithoe kulafi
                      Ampithoe kussakini
                      Ampithoe lacertosa
                      Ampithoe macrocornutus
                      Ampithoe maxillissius
                      Ampithoe megaloprotopus
                      Ampithoe platycera
                      Ampithoe plumulosa
                          Ampithoe plumulosa plumulosa
                          Ampithoe plumulosa tepahue
                      Ampithoe poipu
                      Ampithoe pollex
                      Ampithoe rubricatoides
                      Ampithoe sectimana
                      Ampithoe senegalensis
                      Ampithoe serraticauda
                      Ampithoe tahue
                      Ampithoe tarasovi
                      Ampithoe vacoregue
                      Ampithoe volki
                      Ampithoe waialua
                      Ampithoe zachsi
                      Ampithoe boiana
                      Ampithoe brevipalma
                      Ampithoe caddi
                      Ampithoe cookana
                      Ampithoe dentimana
                      Ampithoe eremits
                      Ampithoe geographe
                      Ampithoe hiana
                      Ampithoe hirsutimanus
                      Ampithoe hyalos
                      Ampithoe katae
                      Ampithoe koreana
                      Ampithoe meganae
                      Ampithoe merimbula
                      Ampithoe ngana
                      Ampithoe ningaloo
                      Ampithoe nobrei
                      Ampithoe parakava
                      Ampithoe peronana
                      Ampithoe plumicornis
                      Ampithoe pseudongana
                      Ampithoe rachanoi
                      Ampithoe roly
                      Ampithoe rosema
                      Ampithoe rotunda
                      Ampithoe simulans
                      Ampithoe ulladulla
                      Ampithoe youngsanensis
                      Ampithoe panopla
                      Ampithoe inermis
                    Cymadusa
                    Pleonexes
                    Sunamphitoe
                    Amphitoe
                    Macropisthopus
                  Aoridae
                  Corophiidae
                  Unciolidae
              Neomegamphopidae
              Iciliidae
              Iulopididae
              Kuriidae
              Maxillipiidae
              Paracalliopiidae
              Pleioplateidae
              Podoprionidae
              Priscillinidae
              Priscomilitaridae
              Prolanceolidae
              Regaliidae
              Sinurothoidae
              Sternophysingidae
            Cumacea
            Thermosbaenacea
            Mysidacea
            Mysida
            Lophogastrida
            Anisopoda
        Hoplocarida
      Ostracoda
      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