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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 prismatica var. imperialis
                      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