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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
                  Callistocythere
                    Callistocythere adriatica
                    Callistocythere badia
                    Callistocythere craterigera
                    Callistocythere crispata
                    Callistocythere crucifera
                    Callistocythere diffusa
                    Callistocythere discrepans
                    Callistocythere flavidofusca
                    Callistocythere folliculosa
                    Callistocythere foveata
                    Callistocythere gilva
                    Callistocythere intricatoides
                    Callistocythere littoralis
                    Callistocythere lobiancoi
                    Callistocythere mediterranea
                    Callistocythere murrayi
                    Callistocythere pallida
                    Callistocythere praecincta
                    Callistocythere rastrifera
                    Callistocythere taeniata
                    Callistocythere vexata
                    Callistocythere dispersocostata
                    Callistocythere cranekeyensis
                    Callistocythere abjecta
                    Callistocythere akabashia
                    Callistocythere alata
                    Callistocythere arcana
                    Callistocythere arcuata
                    Callistocythere arenicola
                    Callistocythere asiatica
                    Callistocythere besani
                    Callistocythere bonaducei
                    Callistocythere chihyunga
                    Callistocythere crenata
                    Callistocythere dedeckkeri
                    Callistocythere dinglei
                    Callistocythere dorsotuberculata
                        Callistocythere dorsotuberculata paucicostata
                    Callistocythere elena
                    Callistocythere eulitoralis
                    Callistocythere eugenia
                    Callistocythere fisheri
                    Callistocythere fossulata
                    Callistocythere hartmanni
                    Callistocythere hayamensis
                    Callistocythere hotaru
                    Callistocythere innominata
                    Callistocythere insolita
                    Callistocythere ishizakii
                    Callistocythere janiceburrowsae
                    Callistocythere japonica
                    Callistocythere keiji
                    Callistocythere laminata
                    Callistocythere litoralensis
                    Callistocythere mosleyi
                    Callistocythere multirugosa
                    Callistocythere multicellulosa
                    Callistocythere murrayana
                    Callistocythere neoplana
                    Callistocythere nucleoperiscum
                    Callistocythere obtusa
                    Callistocythere ovata
                    Callistocythere ornata
                    Callistocythere protracta
                    Callistocythere puri
                    Callistocythere reticulata
                    Callistocythere rugosa
                    Callistocythere shuliana
                    Callistocythere sigmocostelata
                    Callistocythere sinensis
                    Callistocythere subjaponica
                    Callistocythere tateyamensis
                    Callistocythere tientaolis
                    Callistocythere tihaoa
                    Callistocythere undata
                    Callistocythere undulatifacialis
                    Callistocythere ventrolata
                    Callistocythere windangensis
                    Callistocythere yanghui
                    Callistocythere asperereticulata
                    Callistocythere rioplatensis
                  Cluthia
                  Leptocythere
                  Palusleptocythere
                  Amnicythere
                  Bisulcocythere
                  Caudoleptocythere
                  Chartocythere
                  Ishizakiella
                  Gambiella
                  Mediocytherideis
                  Mesocythere
                  Neocytheromorpha
                  Paratanella
                  Tanella
                  Swansonella
                  Vandiemencythere
                Limnocytheridae
                Loxoconchidae
                Microcytheridae
                Neocytherideidae
                Paracytherideidae
                Paradoxostomatidae
                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
Plantae
Fungi
Protozoa
Bacteria
Chromista
Archaea
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