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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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