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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
  Sipuncula
  Echiura
  Pogonophora
  Entoprocta
  Tardigrada
  Phoronida
  Brachiopoda
  Echinodermata
    Crinozoa
    Asterozoa
    Echinozoa
      Echinoidea
        Euechinoidea
        Perischoechinoidea
        Echinoidea incertae sedis
        Cidaroidea
          Cidaroida
            Cidaridea
              Cidaridae
                Cidarinae
                  Cidaris
                    Cidaris (Diadema)
                    Cidaris affinis
                    Cidaris borealis
                    Cidaris cidaris
                    Cidaris papillata
                    Cidaris pustulosa
                    Cidaris Stokesii
                    Cidaris tribuloides
                    Cidaris thouarsii
                    Cidaris annulata
                    Cidaris baculosa
                    Cidaris hystrix
                    Cidaris tubaria
                    Cidaris fustigera
                    Cidaris radiata
                    Cidaris metularia
                    Cidaris verticillata
                    Cidaris curvatispinis
                    Cidaris toreumatica
                    Cidaris canaliculata
                    Cidaris abyssicola
                    Cidaris blakei
                    Cidaris rugosa
                    Cidaris mabahissae
                    Cidaris nuda
                    Cidaris (Porocidaris)
                    Cidaris (Cidaris)
                    Cidaris (Discocidaris)
                    Cidaris (Dorocidaris)
                    Cidaris (Eucidaris)
                        Cidaris (Eucidaris) galapagensis
                        Cidaris (Eucidaris) metularia
                        Cidaris (Eucidaris) thouarsii
                    Cidaris (Goniocidaris)
                    Cidaris (Gymnocidaris)
                    Cidaris (Histocidaris)
                    Cidaris (Leiocidaris)
                    Cidaris (Petalocidaris)
                    Cidaris (Phyllacanthus)
                    Cidaris (Rhabdocidaris)
                    Cidaris (Stephanocidaris)
                    Cidaris (Stereocidaris)
                    Cidaris angulosa
                    Cidaris angulosus
                    Cidaris araneiformis
                    Cidaris atratus
                    Cidaris benhami
                    Cidaris calamaria
                    Cidaris calamaris
                    Cidaris callao
                    Cidaris circinnata
                    Cidaris conferta
                    Cidaris danae
                    Cidaris esculenta
                    Cidaris fenestrata
                    Cidaris gracilis
                    Cidaris granulata
                    Cidaris hemisphaera
                    Cidaris histrix
                    Cidaris imperialis
                    Cidaris krohnii
                    Cidaris lima
                    Cidaris lucunter
                    Cidaris lütkeni
                    Cidaris mammillata
                    Cidaris mauri
                    Cidaris membranipora
                    Cidaris microtuberculata
                    Cidaris minor
                    Cidaris nutrix
                    Cidaris ornata
                    Cidaris parvispinis
                    Cidaris pistillaris
                    Cidaris purpurata
                    Cidaris reini
                    Cidaris rosaceus
                    Cidaris spinulosa
                    Cidaris tenuispina
                    Cidaris tenuispinus
                    Cidaris toreumatica
                    Cidaris variegata
                  Cidarites
                  Dorocidaris
                  Eucidaris
                  Kionocidaris
                  Lissocidaris
                  Calocidaris
                  Tretocidaris
                  Almucidaris
                  Centrocidaris
                  Chondrocidaris
                  Cyathocidaris
                  Hesperocidaris
                  Triassicidaris
                  Orthocidaris
                  Actinocidaris
                  Compsocidaris
                  Gymnocidaris
                  Schleinitzia
                  Chorocidaris
                  Cydaris
                Goniocidarinae
                Stereocidarinae
                Typocidarinae
                Phyllacanthina
                Plegiocidaris
                Minicidaris
                Abelleicidaris
                Stylocidarinae
              Ctenocidaridae
              Paurocidaridae
              Roseicidaridae
            Histocidaridea
            Diplocidaridae
            Miocidaridae
            Polycidaridae
            Rhabdocidaridae
            Serpianotiaridae
            Triadocidaridae
            Anisocidaridae
            Tetracidaridae
            Nenoticidaridae
        Palaeozoic Echinoidea
        Glyphostoma
      Holothuroidea
  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