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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
    Anthozoa
    Hydrozoa
      Hydroidolina
        Siphonophorae
        Anthoathecata
          Capitata
          Filifera
            Bougainvilliidae
              Aselomaris
              Bimeria
              Bougainvillia
                Bougainvillia britannica
                Bougainvillia charcoti
                Bougainvillia flavida
                Bougainvillia macloviana
                Bougainvillia multicilia
                Bougainvillia muscoides
                Bougainvillia muscus
                Bougainvillia principis
                Bougainvillia pyramidata
                Bougainvillia ramosa
                    Bougainvillia ramosa f. benedeni
                    Bougainvillia ramosa muscus
                    Bougainvillia ramosa var. minima
                    Bougainvillia ramosa var. nana
                Bougainvillia rugosa
                Bougainvillia superciliaris
                Bougainvillia nigritella
                Bougainvillia alderi
                Bougainvillia fructicosa
                Bougainvillia carolinensis
                Bougainvillia platygaster
                Bougainvillia fulva
                Bougainvillia niobe
                Bougainvillia aberrans
                Bougainvillia aurantiaca
                Bougainvillia balei
                Bougainvillia bitentaculata
                Bougainvillia bougainvillei
                Bougainvillia crassa
                Bougainvillia dimorpha
                Bougainvillia frondosa
                Bougainvillia glorietta
                Bougainvillia inaequalis
                Bougainvillia involuta
                Bougainvillia longicirra
                Bougainvillia longistyla
                Bougainvillia meinertiae
                Bougainvillia multitentaculata
                Bougainvillia paraplatygaster
                Bougainvillia prolifera
                Bougainvillia robusta
                Bougainvillia simplex
                Bougainvillia trinema
                Bougainvillia vervoorti
                Bougainvillia reticulata
                Bougainvillia chenyapingii
                Bougainvillia lamellata
                Bougainvillia obscura
                Bougainvillia fruticosa
                Bougainvillia autumnalis
                Bougainvillia obscura
                Bougainvillia benedenii
                Bougainvillia Gibbsi
                Bougainvillia triestina
                Bougainvillia yoldiaearcticae
                Bougainvillia dinema
                Bougainvillia xantha
                Bougainvillia bella
                Bougainvillia maniculata
                Bougainvillia diplectanos
                Bougainvillia octocilia
                Bougainvillia allmanii
              Clavopsella
              Dicoryne
              Garveia
              Koellikerina
              Lizzella
              Nemopsis
              Nubiella
              Pachycordyle
              Rhizorhagium
              Thamnostoma
              Perigonimus
              Thieliana
              Chiarella
              Millardiana
              Parawrightia
              Silhouetta
              Calyptospadix
              Manicella
              Margelis
              Heterocordyle
              Pruvotella
              Gravelia
              Thamnitis
              Koellikeria
              Perigonymus
              Lizusa
            Clavidae
            Eudendriidae
            Hydractiniidae
            Pandeiidae
            Proboscidactylidae
            Pandeidae
            Rathkeidae
            Trichydridae
            Margelina
            Filifera incertae sedis
            Pandeida
            Calycopsidae
            Cytaeididae
            Niobiidae
            Ptilocodiidae
            Stylasteridae
            Laingiidae
            Protiaridae
            Russelliidae
            Bythotiaridae
            Oceaniidae
            Eucodoniidae
            Australomedusidae
            Balellidae
            Jeanbouilloniidae
            Platystomidae
            Tubiclavoididae
            Cordylophoridae
            Magapiidae
            Axoporidae
            Heterotentaculidae
          Anthoathecata incertae sedis
        Leptothecata
        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