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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
  Ctenophora
  Cnidaria
  Sipuncula
  Echiura
  Pogonophora
  Entoprocta
  Tardigrada
  Phoronida
  Brachiopoda
  Echinodermata
    Crinozoa
    Asterozoa
    Echinozoa
      Echinoidea
      Holothuroidea
        Apodida
        Aspidochirotida
        Elasipodida
        Molpadiida
        Dendrochirotacea
          Dactylochirotida
          Dendrochirotida
            Cucumariidae
              Abyssocucumis
              Aslia
              Cladodactyla
              Colochirus
              Cucumaria
                  Cucumaria abyssorum
                  Cucumaria abyssorum
                  Cucumaria arcuata
                  Cucumaria assimilis
                  Cucumaria calcigera
                  Cucumaria communis
                  Cucumaria compressa
                  Cucumaria cucumis
                  Cucumaria dicquemarii
                  Cucumaria elongata
                  Cucumaria frondosa
                  Cucumaria glacialis
                  Cucumaria grubei
                  Cucumaria hispida
                  Cucumaria hyndmanni
                  Cucumaria incurvata
                  Cucumaria kirchsbergii
                  Cucumaria köllikeri
                  Cucumaria korenii
                  Cucumaria lefevrii
                  Cucumaria marionii
                  Cucumaria mauritanica
                  Cucumaria mosterensis
                  Cucumaria nobilis
                  Cucumaria normani
                  Cucumaria paraglacialis
                  Cucumaria pentactes
                  Cucumaria perspicua
                  Cucumaria saxicola
                  Cucumaria sluiteri
                  Cucumaria syracusana
                  Cucumaria tergestina
                  Cucumaria crocea
                  Cucumaria liouvillei
                  Cucumaria planci
                  Cucumaria kirschbergi
                  Cucumaria lactea
                  Cucumaria conspicua
                  Cucumaria georgiana
                  Cucumaria grandis
                  Cucumaria perfida
                  Cucumaria psolidiformis
                  Cucumaria secunda
                  Cucumaria vaneyi
                  Cucumaria splendidus
                  Cucumaria discolor
                  Cucumaria jaegeri
                  Cucumaria stephensoni
                  Cucumaria leonina
                  Cucumaria rigidapeda
                  Cucumaria turbinata
                  Cucumaria sinorbis
                  Cucumaria frauenfeldi
                  Cucumaria tetracentriophora
                  Cucumaria semperi
                  Cucumaria insolens
                  Cucumaria transitoria
                  Cucumaria webbi
                  Cucumaria improvisa
                  Cucumaria capensis
                  Cucumaria deichmanni
                  Cucumaria corbula
                  Cucumaria crucifera
                  Cucumaria spyridophora
                  Cucumaria miniata
                  Cucumaria croceoida
                  Cucumaria periprocta
                  Cucumaria analis
                  Cucumaria acuta
                  Cucumaria godfroyi
                  Cucumaria steineni
                  Cucumaria joubini
                  Cucumaria antarctica
                  Cucumaria montagui
                  Cucumaria syracusiana
                  Cucumaria brunnea
                  Cucumaria adelia
                  Cucumaria japonica
                  Cucumaria nigricans
                  Cucumaria vegae
                  Cucumaria perrieri
                  Cucumaria dyakonovi
                  Cucumaria fraudatrix
                  Cucumaria sachalinica
                  Cucumaria savelijevae
                  Cucumaria diligens
                  Cucumaria insperata
                  Cucumaria mira
                  Cucumaria conicospermium
                  Cucumaria levini
                  Cucumaria okhotensis
                  Cucumaria anivaensis
                  Cucumaria fusiformis
                  Cucumaria obscura
                  Cucumaria (Semperia)
                    Cucumaria (Semperia) bouvetensis
                    Cucumaria (Semperia) ekmani
                  Cucumaria adela
                  Cucumaria parassimilis
                  Cucumaria pseudocurata
                  Cucumaria crax
                  Cucumaria pallida
                  Cucumaria lamberti
                  Cucumaria fallax
                  Cucumaria tenuis
                  Cucumaria pusilla
                  Cucumaria congoana
                  Cucumaria ijimai
                  Cucumaria dudexa
                  Cucumaria duriuscula
                  Cucumaria munita
                  Cucumaria vilis
                  Cucumaria vicaria
                  Cucumaria flamma
                  Cucumaria manoelina
                  Cucumaria irregularis
                  Cucumaria salma
                  Cucumaria chilensis
                  Cucumaria elongara
                  Cucumaria ingolfi
                  Cucumaria longicauda
                  Cucumaria mucronata
                  Cucumaria koreaensis
                  Cucumaria piperata
                  Cucumaria planciana
                  Cucumaria tegulata
                  Cucumaria forbesi
                  Cucumaria bicolor
                  Cucumaria inconspicua
                  Cucumaria sancti-johannis
                  Cucumaria albatrossi
                  Cucumaria cornuta
                  Cucumaria spatha
                  Cucumaria souriei
                  Cucumaria lubrica
                  Cucumaria lissoplaca
                  Cucumaria trachyplaca
                  Cucumaria squamatoides
                  Cucumaria curata
                  Cucumaria nina
                  Cucumaria huttoni
                  Cucumaria areolata
                  Cucumaria denticulata
                  Cucumaria hyalina
                  Cucumaria villosa
                  Cucumaria rhopalodiformis
                  Cucumaria hartmeyeri
                  Cucumaria convergens
                  Cucumaria thomsoni
                  Cucumaria mutans
                  Cucumaria striata
                  Cucumaria alcocki
                  Cucumaria ardens
                  Cucumaria ariana
                  Cucumaria bacilliformis
                  Cucumaria inflexa
                  Cucumaria investigatoris
                  Cucumaria pigra
                  Cucumaria rapax
                  Cucumaria digitata
                  Cucumaria imbellis
                  Cucumaria mosaïca
                  Cucumaria perdita
                  Cucumaria obunca
                  Cucumaria posthuma
                  Cucumaria pithacnion
                  Cucumaria exigua
                  Cucumaria ignava
                  Cucumaria parva
                  Cucumaria punctata
                  Cucumaria salmini
                  Cucumaria chierchiae
                  Cucumaria chiloensis
                  Cucumaria squamata
                  Cucumaria chuni
                  Cucumaria velligera
                  Cucumaria echinata
                  Cucumaria nozawai
                  Cucumaria squamulosa
                  Cucumaria amokurae
                  Cucumaria bollonsi
                  Cucumaria farquhari
                  Cucumaria leoninoides
                  Cucumaria constricta
                  Cucumaria globosa
                  Cucumaria lamperti
                  Cucumaria spinosa
                  Cucumaria koraeensis
                  Cucumaria filholi
                  Cucumaria tabulifera
                  Cucumaria quinquesemita
                  Cucumaria acicula
                  Cucumaria africana
                  Cucumaria canescens
                  Cucumaria citrea
                  Cucumaria conjungens
                  Cucumaria cylindrica
                  Cucumaria godeffroyi
                  Cucumaria longipeda
                  Cucumaria maculata
                  Cucumaria versicolor
                  Cucumaria californica
                  Cucumaria dubiosa
                  Cucumaria glaberrima
                  Cucumaria cataphracta
                  Cucumaria conciliatrix
                  Cucumaria falcata
                  Cucumaria fastigata
                  Cucumaria nocturna
                  Cucumaria redimita
                  Cucumaria reducta
                  Cucumaria sordidata
                  Cucumaria tricolor
                  Cucumaria argillacea
                  Cucumaria chronhjelmi
                  Cucumaria kerguelensis
                  Cucumaria mendax
                  Cucumaria mirabilis
                  Cucumaria multipes
                  Cucumaria serrata
                  Cucumaria gravieri
                  Cucumaria attenuata
                  Cucumaria lateralis
                  Cucumaria turqueti
                  Cucumaria armata
                  Cucumaria aspera
                  Cucumaria cosmotyrsitus
                  Cucumaria fisheri
                  Cucumaria tenuicoriata
                  Cucumaria brevidentis
                  Cucumaria kirchbergii
                  Cucumaria assimilis
              Leptopentacta
              Ludwigia
              Neocnus
              Ocnus
              Panningia
              Paracucumaria
              Pawsonia
              Pentacta
              Pseudocnus
              Staurocucumis
              Stereoderma
              Uroxia
              Ekmania
              Neocucumis
              Thyonidium
              Paracucumaria
              Ludwigia
              Pentacucumis
              Trachythyone
              Caespitugo
              Microchoerus
              Trachythyone
              Staurothyone
              Trachasina
              Actinocucumis
              Australocnus
              Psolidocnus
              Patallus
              Cucamba
              Eucyclus
              Paracolochirus
              Parathyonacta
              Parathyonidium
              Pseudrotasfer
              Semperia
              Botryodactyla
              Parocnus
              Euthyonidium
              Thyonacta
              Psoliocucumis
              Pentactella
              Siphothuria
              Labidodesmus
            Phyllophoridae
            Psolidae
            Heterothyonidae
  Hemichordata
  Chordata
  Gastrotricha
  Chaetognatha
  Ectoprocta
  Mesozoa
  Rotifera
  Gnathostomulida
  Acanthocephala
  Cycliophora
  Cephalorhyncha
  Placozoa
  Bryozoa
  Myxozoa
  Sipunculida
  Pentastomida
  Nemertini
Plantae
Fungi
Protozoa
Bacteria
Chromista
Archaea
Viruses
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