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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
      Cocculiniformia
      Neritimorpha
      Vetigastropoda
      Apogastropoda
      Caenogastropoda
        Neogastropoda
        Sorbeoconcha
        [unassigned] Caenogastropoda
        Littorinimorpha
          Littorinoidea
          Rissooidea
          Stromboidea
          Hipponicoidea
          Crepiduloidea
          Xenophoroidea
          Cypraeoidea
            Ovulidae
            Cypraeidae
              Erosaria
              Luria
              Purpuradusta
              Schilderia
              Zonaria
              Palmadusta
              Callistocypraea
              Lyncina
              Blasicrura
              Pustularia
              Cypraeovula
              Cypraea
                Cypraea propinqua
                Cypraea cernica
                Cypraea erythraeensis
                Cypraea nivosa
                Cypraea punctata
                Cypraea contaminata
                Cypraea pantherina
                Cypraea teres
                Cypraea globulus
                Cypraea walkeri
                Cypraea mariae
                Cypraea tigris
                Cypraea pyrum
                Cypraea hungerfordi
                Cypraea zebra
                Cypraea fultoni
                Cypraea lisetae
                Cypraea cassiaui
                Cypraea acicularis
                Cypraea irrorata
                Cypraea isabellamexicana
                Cypraea albuginosa
                Cypraea annettae
                Cypraea cervinetta
                Cypraea isabellamexicana
                Cypraea nigropunctata
                Cypraea rashleighana
                Cypraea robertsi
                Cypraea schilderorum
                Cypraea annettae
                    Cypraea annettae aequinoctialis
                    Cypraea annettae annettae
                Cypraea tessellata
                Cypraea cinerea
                Cypraea reevei
                Cypraea aurantium
                Cypraea sulcidentata
                Cypraea kuroharai
                Cypraea ventriculus
                Cypraea porteri
                Cypraea joycae
                Cypraea cervus
                Cypraea rosea
                Cypraea valentia
                Cypraea spadicea
                Cypraea humphreysii
                Cypraea cumingii
                Cypraea pyriformis
                Cypraea flaveola
                Cypraea minoridens
              Erronea
              Bistolida
              Talparia
              Bernaya
              Staphylaea
              Zoila
              Nesiocypraea
              Notadusta
              Cribrarula
              Cypraeinae
              Erosariinae
              Erroneinae
              Gisortiinae
              Luriinae
              Pustulariinae
              Ipsa
              Arestorides
              Pseudozonaria
              Annepona
              Melicerona
              Ovatipsa
              Cryptocypraea
              Palmulacypraea
              Contradusta
              Perisserosa
              Austrasiatica
              Chelycypraea
              Eclogavena
              Nucleolaria
              Naria
              Austrocypraea
              Neobernaya
              Talostolida
          Heteropoda
          Naticoidea
          Tonnoidea
          Cassoidea
          Rissoacea
          Calyptraeoidea
          Capuloidea
          Vanikoroidea
          Cingulopsoidea
          Pterotracheoidea
          Velutinoidea
          Vermetoidea
          Ficoidea
        Stenoglossa
        Hypsogastropoda
      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