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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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Click the links to browse through the WoRMS marine species taxonomy.
Animalia
  Mollusca
  Porifera
  Platyhelminthes
  Nematoda
  Annelida
  Nemertina
  Arthropoda
    Crustacea
      Remipedia
      Branchiopoda
      Maxillopoda
      Malacostraca
      Ostracoda
        Myodocopa
        Podocopa
          Podocopida
            Bairdiocopina
            Cytherocopina
              Cytheroidea
                Bythocytheridae
                Cuneocytheridae
                Cushmanideidae
                Cytherettidae
                Cytheridae
                  Cobancythere
                  Cythere
                    Cythere lutea
                    Cythere dawsoni
                    Cythere albomaculata
                    Cythere acuta
                    Cythere gibbosa
                    Cythere (Bairdia)
                    Cythere acupunctata
                    Cythere alveolivalva
                    Cythere attrita
                    Cythere boreokurila
                    Cythere circumdentata
                    Cythere cephaloidea
                    Cythere cristatella
                    Cythere cypraeoides
                    Cythere davisi
                    Cythere favus
                    Cythere floscardui
                    Cythere fungoides
                    Cythere globulifera
                    Cythere golikovi
                    Cythere inflata
                    Cythere infundibulata
                    Cythere labiata
                    Cythere maia
                    Cythere nishinipponica
                    Cythere ochracea
                    Cythere omotenipponica
                    Cythere ovalis
                    Cythere packardi
                    Cythere patagoniensis
                    Cythere pectunculata
                    Cythere perieri
                    Cythere phylloides
                    Cythere pyriformis
                    Cythere quadriaculeata
                    Cythere sabulosa
                    Cythere salebrosa
                    Cythere sanrikuensis
                    Cythere schornikovi
                    Cythere scalaris
                    Cythere scintillulata
                    Cythere setosa
                    Cythere solandi
                    Cythere spongiosa
                    Cythere stolonifera
                    Cythere subrufa
                    Cythere sweeti
                    Cythere uranipponica
                    Cythere urupensis
                    Cythere yuniangae
                    Cythere zenkeri
                    Cythere polytrema
                    Cythere squalidentata
                    Cythere fortificata
                    Cythere parallelogramma
                    Cythere acanthoderma
                    Cythere adunca
                    Cythere bacescoi
                    Cythere bermudae
                    Cythere canadensis
                    Cythere canaliculata
                    Cythere cancellata
                    Cythere caudata
                    Cythere coralloides
                    Cythere costata
                    Cythere cribriformis
                    Cythere crispata
                    Cythere cumulus
                    Cythere dasyderma
                    Cythere deltoides
                    Cythere demissa
                    Cythere dorsoserrata
                    Cythere dubia
                    Cythere dunelmensis
                    Cythere ericea
                    Cythere fabaeformis
                    Cythere foveolata
                    Cythere flabellicostata
                    Cythere goujoni
                    Cythere inconspicua
                    Cythere irpex
                    Cythere kerguelenensis
                    Cythere lactea
                    Cythere lauta
                    Cythere militaris
                    Cythere murrayana
                    Cythere multipunctata
                    Cythere normani
                    Cythere obtusalata
                    Cythere papuensis
                    Cythere pectinata
                    Cythere planibasalis
                    Cythere pulchella
                    Cythere pumila
                    Cythere radula
                    Cythere rastromarginata
                    Cythere scabrocuneata
                    Cythere scutigera
                    Cythere sweeti
                    Cythere speyeri
                    Cythere spinifera
                    Cythere suhmi
                    Cythere sulcatoperforata
                    Cythere valentinei
                    Cythere velivola
                    Cythere wyvillethomsoni
                    Cythere audax
                    Cythere kerguelensis
                    Cythere arata
                    Cythere bosquetiana
                    Cythere ikeyanoriyukii
                    Cythere venata
                    Cythere bahamensis
                    Cythere mirabilis
                    Cythere quadridentata
                    Cythere bicarinata
                    Cythere clavigera
                    Cythere craticula
                    Cythere curvicostata
                    Cythere cytheropteroides
                    Cythere falklandi
                    Cythere melobesioides
                    Cythere euplectella
                    Cythere convexa
                        Cythere convexa var. meridionalis
                    Cythere exilis
                  Cythereis
                  Cytherideis
                  Palmenella
                  Paracytheridea
                  Austrocythere
                  Gangamocytheridea
                  Schizocythere
                  Abditacythere
                  Asymmetricythere
                  Delamarcythere
                  Dampiercythere
                  Eopaijenborchella
                  Hanaiborchella
                  Jankeijcythere
                  Javanella
                  Loxocythere
                  Microcytheridea
                  Paijenborchella
                  Paijenborchellina
                  Patagonacythere
                  Pseudocytheretta
                  Posacythere
                  Profundocythere
                  Spinileberis
                Cytherideidae
                Cytheroidea incertae sedis
                Cytheromatidae
                Cytheruridae
                Eucytheridae
                Hemicytheridae
                Krithidae
                Leptocytheridae
                Limnocytheridae
                Loxoconchidae
                Microcytheridae
                Neocytherideidae
                Paracytherideidae
                Paradoxostomatidae
                Trachyleberididae
                Xestoleberididae
                Xestoleberidae
                Terrestricytheridae
                Entocytheridae
                Australocytherideidae
                Cobanocytheridae
                Cytheralisonidae
                Kliellidae
                Osticytheridae
                Paracytheridae
                Parvocytheridae
                Pectocytheridae
                Protocytheridae
                Psammocytheridae
                Saididae
                Schizocytheridae
                Speluncellidae
                Thaerocytheridae
                Bonaducecytheridae
                Progonocytheridae
                Flexuocythere
            Cypridocopina
            Sigilliocopina
          Platycopida
          Palaeocopida
        Palaeocopa
      Pentastomata
    Chelicerata
    Myriapoda
    Hexapoda
  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