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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
    Anthozoa
    Hydrozoa
      Hydroidolina
        Siphonophorae
        Anthoathecata
        Leptothecata
          Conica
            Aglaopheniidae
            Campanulinidae
            Haleciidae
            Lafoeidae
            Laodiceidae
            Lovenellidae
            Phialellidae
            Plumulariidae
              Monotheca
              Nemertesia
              Plumularia
                Plumularia canariensis
                Plumularia falcicula
                Plumularia filicula
                Plumularia floridana
                Plumularia linkoi
                Plumularia obliqua
                Plumularia setacea
                Plumularia syriaca
                Plumularia macleodii
                Plumularia pluma
                Plumularia echinulata
                Plumularia falcata
                Plumularia cristata
                Plumularia gracillima
                Plumularia curvata
                Plumularia insignis
                Plumularia halecioides
                Plumularia wasini
                Plumularia filicaulis
                Plumularia gracilis
                Plumularia spiralis
                Plumularia acutifrons
                Plumularia adjecta
                Plumularia aglaophenoides
                Plumularia alata
                Plumularia altitheca
                Plumularia angusta
                Plumularia annuligera
                Plumularia anonyma
                Plumularia antonbruuni
                Plumularia attenuata
                Plumularia aurita
                Plumularia australiensis
                Plumularia australis
                Plumularia badia
                Plumularia bedoti
                Plumularia biarmata
                Plumularia brachiata
                Plumularia caliculata
                Plumularia camarata
                Plumularia campanuloides
                Plumularia caulitheca
                Plumularia compressa
                Plumularia congregata
                Plumularia corrugatissima
                Plumularia crater
                Plumularia crateriformis
                Plumularia crateroides
                Plumularia cylindrica
                Plumularia defecta
                Plumularia delicata
                Plumularia dendritica
                Plumularia dolichotheca
                Plumularia duseni
                Plumularia epibracteolosa
                Plumularia excavata
                Plumularia exilis
                Plumularia flabellata
                Plumularia flexuosa
                Plumularia galapagensis
                Plumularia goldsteini
                Plumularia goodei
                Plumularia habereri
                Plumularia hargitti
                Plumularia hyalina
                Plumularia indica
                Plumularia insolens
                Plumularia inverta
                Plumularia irregularis
                Plumularia jaederholmi
                Plumularia jordani
                Plumularia kirkpatricki
                Plumularia kossowskae
                Plumularia lagenifera
                Plumularia leloupi
                Plumularia macrotheca
                Plumularia margaretta
                Plumularia megalocephala
                Plumularia meganema
                Plumularia meretriacia
                Plumularia micronema
                Plumularia mobilis
                Plumularia moneroni
                Plumularia mossambicae
                Plumularia mula
                Plumularia mutabilis
                Plumularia nodosa
                Plumularia obesa
                Plumularia opima
                Plumularia orientalis
                Plumularia paucinema
                Plumularia paucinoda
                Plumularia polycladia
                Plumularia polynema
                Plumularia posidoniae
                Plumularia procumbens
                Plumularia propinqua
                Plumularia providentiae
                Plumularia pulchella
                Plumularia ramulifera
                Plumularia reversa
                Plumularia rotunda
                Plumularia rugosa
                Plumularia scabra
                Plumularia setaceiformis
                Plumularia setaceoides
                Plumularia siliculata
                Plumularia spinulosa
                Plumularia spiralis
                Plumularia spirocladia
                Plumularia strictocarpa
                Plumularia strobilophora
                Plumularia stylifera
                Plumularia tenuissima
                Plumularia togata
                Plumularia tubacarpa
                Plumularia undulata
                Plumularia variabilis
                Plumularia varians
                Plumularia venusta
                Plumularia vervoorti
                Plumularia virginiae
                Plumularia warreni
                Plumularia wattsi
                Plumularia michaelseni
                Plumularia sulcata
                Plumularia inermis
                Plumularia balei
                Plumularia everta
                Plumularia ventruosa
                Plumularia nova
                Plumularia crosslandi
                Plumularia asymmetrica
                Plumularia multiramosa
                Plumularia parva
                Plumularia septata
                Plumularia sinuosa
                Plumularia diploptera
                Plumularia wilsoni
                Plumularia sargassi
                Plumularia corrugata
                Plumularia pennycuikae
                Plumularia struthionides
                Plumularia magellanica
                    Plumularia magellanica moneroni
                Plumularia clarkei
                Plumularia nuttingi
                Plumularia tenuissima
                Plumularia brachiata
                Plumularia aurita
                Plumularia singularis
                Plumularia corrugata
                Plumularia flabellum
                Plumularia gaimardi
                Plumularia lucerna
                Plumularia tenuis
                Plumularia tenuis
                Plumularia delicatula
                Plumularia delicatula
                Plumularia delicatula
                Plumularia vervoorti
                Plumularia amphibola
                Plumularia gracilis
              Polyplumaria
              Pseudoplumaria
              Antennularia
              Polyplumularia
              Lytocarpus
              Callicarpa
              Cladacanthella
              Dentitheca
              Hippurella
              Sibogella
              Monothecella
              Polynemertesia
              Stechowia
            Sertulariidae
            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