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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
    Polyplacophora
    Gastropoda
      Prosobranchia
      Heterobranchia
        Pulmonata
        Heterostropha
        [unassigned] Heterobranchia
        Opisthobranchia
          Cephalaspidea
          Gymnosomata
          Sacoglossa
          Anaspidea
          Aplysiomorpha
          Notaspidea
          Nudibranchia
            Euctenidiacea
              Eudoridacea
              Doridacea
                Doridoidea
                  Archidorididae
                  Kentrodorididae
                  Rostangidae
                  Discodorididae
                  Dorididae
                    Archidoris
                    Doris
                        Doris alboranica
                        Doris bertheloti
                        Doris bicolor
                        Doris marmorata
                        Doris nobilis
                        Doris ocelligera
                        Doris pseudoverrucosa
                        Doris sticta
                        Doris verrucosa
                        Doris stellata
                        Doris flemingii
                        Doris sublaevis
                        Doris similis
                        Doris subquadrata
                        Doris fusca
                        Doris obvelata
                        Doris brittanica
                        Doris flammea
                        Doris johnstoni
                        Doris arborescens
                        Doris clavigera
                        Doris auriculatus
                        Doris pseudoargus
                        Doris kerguelenensis
                        Doris bovena
                        Doris falklandica
                        Doris fontainii
                        Doris fretterae
                        Doris kyolis
                        Doris wellingtonensis
                        Doris flabellifera
                        Doris chrysoderma
                        Doris fontainii
                        Doris granulosa
                        Doris wellingtonensis
                        Doris sugashimae
                        Doris laboutei
                        Doris caeca
                        Doris chrysoderma
                        Doris claurina
                        Doris tricolor
                        Doris immonda
                        Doris vibrata
                        Doris alba
                        Doris trilobata
                        Doris reticulata
                        Doris lemniscata
                        Doris dorsalis
                        Doris coerulea
                        Doris gracilis
                        Doris pulcherrima
                        Doris tenera
                        Doris schultzii
                        Doris villae
                        Doris pasini
                        Doris picta
                        Doris elegans
                        Doris valenciennesi
                        Doris nardi
                        Doris calcarae
                        Doris elegans
                        Doris orsinii
                        Doris repanda
                        Doris laevis
                        Doris marginata
                        Doris marginata
                        Doris marginata
                        Doris preciosa
                        Doris fidelis
                        Doris maccarthyi
                        Doris propinquata
                        Doris decora
                        Doris tennentana
                        Doris prismatica
                        Doris gleniei
                        Doris pustulosa
                        Doris glabra
                        Doris phyllophora
                        Doris pickensi
                        Doris punctatissima
                        Doris umbrella
                        Doris odonoghuei
                        Doris montereyensis
                        Doris odhneri
                        Doris nucleola
                        Doris nanula
                        Doris violacea
                    Aporodoris
                    Etidoris
                    Neodoris
                    Homoiodoris
                    Conualevia
                  Aldisidae
                  Chromodorididae
                  Platydorididae
                Onchidoridacea
                Onchidoridoidea
                Phyllidioidea
                Polyceroidea
              Gnathodoridacea
            Dexiarchia
            Dendronotina
          Thecosomata
          Pteropoda
          Umbraculida
          Pleurobranchomorpha
          Acochlidiacea
          Nudipleura
          [unassigned] Opisthobranchia
          Runcinacea
      Cocculiniformia
      Neritimorpha
      Vetigastropoda
      Apogastropoda
      Caenogastropoda
      Patellogastropoda
    Scaphopoda
    Bivalvia
    Monoplacophora
    Solenogastres
    Cephalopoda
    Placophora
    Aculifera
    Conchifera
    Pelecypoda
    Caudofoveata
    Lamellibranchiata
    Conchifera
  Porifera
  Platyhelminthes
  Nematoda
  Annelida
  Nemertina
  Arthropoda
  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