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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
  Ctenophora
  Cnidaria
    Anthozoa
    Hydrozoa
      Hydroidolina
        Siphonophorae
        Anthoathecata
        Leptothecata
          Conica
            Aglaopheniidae
            Campanulinidae
            Haleciidae
            Lafoeidae
            Laodiceidae
            Lovenellidae
            Phialellidae
            Plumulariidae
            Sertulariidae
              Abietinaria
              Amphisbetia
              Cnidoscyphus
              Diphasia
              Dynamena
              Hydrallmania
              Salacia
              Selaginopsis
              Sertularella
              Sertularia
                  Sertularia albimaris
                  Sertularia argentea
                  Sertularia cupressina
                  Sertularia distans
                  Sertularia fabricii
                  Sertularia gracilis
                  Sertularia inflata
                  Sertularia marginata
                  Sertularia mediterranea
                  Sertularia mirabilis
                  Sertularia perpusilla
                  Sertularia plumosa
                  Sertularia robusta
                  Sertularia schmidti
                  Sertularia tenera
                  Sertularia turbinata
                  Sertularia abietina
                  Sertularia bursaria
                  Sertularia tamarisca
                  Sertularia gayi
                  Sertularia halecina
                  Sertularia pluma
                  Sertularia pinnata
                  Sertularia lendigera
                  Sertularia falcata
                  Sertularia antennina
                  Sertularia polyzonias
                  Sertularia rugosa
                  Sertularia setacea
                  Sertularia lonchitis
                  Sertularia frutescens
                  Sertularia articulata
                  Sertularia operculata
                  Sertularia cornuta
                  Sertularia avicularia
                  Sertularia loricata
                  Sertularia chelata
                  Sertularia ciliata
                  Sertularia rosacea
                  Sertularia pumila
                  Sertularia nigra
                  Sertularia scruposa
                  Sertularia eburnea
                  Sertularia fastigiata
                  Sertularia anguina
                  Sertularia volubilis
                  Sertularia geniculata
                  Sertularia latiuscula
                  Sertularia similis
                  Sertularia spinosa
                  Sertularia linealis
                  Sertularia cupressoides
                  Sertularia aperta
                  Sertularia furcata
                  Sertularia macrocarpa
                  Sertularia nasonovi
                  Sertularia australis
                  Sertularia bidentata
                  Sertularia bilatteralis
                  Sertularia borneensis
                  Sertularia brashnikowi
                  Sertularia brevicyathus
                  Sertularia brunnea
                  Sertularia camtschatika
                  Sertularia carolinensis
                  Sertularia ceylonensis
                  Sertularia complexa
                  Sertularia conferta
                  Sertularia converrucosa
                  Sertularia divergens
                  Sertularia dohrni
                  Sertularia drachi
                  Sertularia dubia
                  Sertularia fissa
                  Sertularia flexilis
                  Sertularia flowersi
                  Sertularia frigida
                  Sertularia gracillima
                  Sertularia hattorii
                  Sertularia heteroclada
                  Sertularia humilis
                  Sertularia intermedia
                  Sertularia ligulata
                  Sertularia linealis
                  Sertularia linkoi
                  Sertularia littoralis
                  Sertularia loculosa
                  Sertularia longa
                  Sertularia maccallumi
                  Sertularia malayensis
                  Sertularia mertoni
                  Sertularia moluccana
                  Sertularia notabilis
                  Sertularia nuttingi
                  Sertularia ochotensis
                  Sertularia orthogonalis
                  Sertularia palkensis
                  Sertularia pusilla
                  Sertularia pyriformis
                  Sertularia rugosissima
                  Sertularia simplex
                  Sertularia stabilis
                  Sertularia staurotheca
                  Sertularia stechowi
                  Sertularia suensoni
                  Sertularia tatarica
                  Sertularia tenuis
                  Sertularia tolli
                  Sertularia trigonostoma
                  Sertularia tumida
                  Sertularia vervoorti
                  Sertularia articulata
                  Sertularia birulae
                  Sertularia hupferi
                  Sertularia longicosta
                  Sertularia ramulosa
                  Sertularia unguiculata
                  Sertularia billardi
                  Sertularia insignis
                  Sertularia rathbuni
                  Sertularia nana
                  Sertularia schydlowskii
                  Sertularia dalli
                  Sertularia amplectens
                  Sertularia subtilis
                  Sertularia thompsoni
                  Sertularia westindica
                  Sertularia echinocarpa
                  Sertularia pourtalesi
                  Sertularia exigua
                  Sertularia erasmoi
                  Sertularia stookeyi
                  Sertularia lamourousii
                  Sertularia laxa
                  Sertularia versluysi
                  Sertularia arctica
                  Sertularia delicatula
                  Sertularia anguinea
                  Sertularia labrata
                  Sertularia parasitica
                  Sertularia bicornis
                  Sertularia geminata
                  Sertularia tongensis
                  Sertularia tongensis
                  Sertularia ephemera
                  Sertularia distans
                  Sertularia alata
                  Sertularia pinaster
                  Sertularia pinus
                  Sertularia minuta
                  Sertularia tricuspidata
                  Sertularia unilateralis
                  Sertularia unilateralis
                  Sertularia geniculata
                  Sertularia exserta
                  Sertularia pinastrum
                  Sertularia pinaster
              Symplectoscyphus
              Tamarisca
              Thuiaria
              Dymella
              Biseriaria
              Tridentata
              Pericladium
              Staurotheca
              Thyroscyphus
              Calamphora
              Caminothujaria
              Crateritheca
              Dictyocladium
              Fraseroscyphus
              Gigantotheca
              Gonaxia
              Hypopyxis
              Papilionella
              Stereotheca
              Tasmanaria
              Geminella
              Diphasis
              Monopoma
              Diphasiella
              Idiella
              Idia
              Pasya
            Aequoreidae
            Mitrocomidae
            Eirenidae
            Eucheilotidae
            Tiarannidae
            Barcinididae
            Blackfordiidae
            Dipleurosomatidae
            Halopterididae
            Kirchenpaueriidae
            Malagazziidae
            Melicertidae
            Orchistomidae
            Tiaropsidae
            Syntheciidae
            Hebellidae
            Teclaiidae
            Cirrholoveniidae
            Clathrozoidae
            Lineolariidae
            Octocannoididae
            Sugiuridae
          Proboscoida
        Laingiomedusae
        Anthomedusae
        Leptomedusae
        Gymnoblastea
        Athecata
        Thecata
        Siphonophora
      Trachylinae
      Hydroida
      Leptolinae
    Cnidaria incertae sedis
    Cubozoa
    Scyphozoa
    Staurozoa
  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