Sea Animals - Picture Dictionary

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Anemones have upturned tentacles and are sedentary.

They can be found in deep, cold water but they are more colourful and numerous in shallow tropical reefs and warm tides.

A worm that lives in a tube and feeds by stretching seawater with its feathery tentacles.

Sargo fish swim in loose schools at the bottom. They look for food over sandy bottoms, seagrass beds, and kelp.

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An intelligent, vocal, social sea mammal.

The Oscar fish has teeth in its throat!

Codfish lives in the icy waters of the North Atlantic and the Arctic. For centuries, these waters were sailed mostly by Portuguese fishing boats, which came back home carrying tons of cod already cleaned and salted.&nbsp;

Small marine organisms of all kinds — animals, plants, bacteria, algae, protists — that play an important role in food chains and chemical cycles.

A small, oily fish that usually swims in large schools.

The blue whale is the largest marine animal.

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Killer whales, are powerful predators.&nbsp; Smart and social, they make a wide variety of communicative sounds.

Sea lions are strong swimmers.&nbsp; They swim using their long, powerful front and back fins.

Corals&nbsp;are&nbsp;marine invertebrates&nbsp;that form compact&nbsp;colonies&nbsp;of many identical individual&nbsp;polyps. Coral species include the important&nbsp;reef&nbsp;builders that inhabit tropical oceans and secrete&nbsp;calcium<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calcium_carbonate"> </a>carbonate&nbsp;to form a hard skeleton.

They are the main source of food for many larger animals.&nbsp;

The yellowfin tuna is one of the fastest swimmers in the ocean. Yellowfin tunas must constantly swim&nbsp;in order to obtain oxygen from the water.&nbsp;

Velvet crabs are coated&nbsp;with short hairs giving them a velvety texture.&nbsp;&nbsp; They are mainly used for food and they are very popular in some countries.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;They&nbsp;are very aggressive. &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;

Sea turtles live in almost every ocean basin throughout the world, nesting on tropical and subtropical beaches. They migrate long distances to feed, often crossing entire oceans.

Humpback whales migrate more than 25,000 kilometers each year from feeding grounds to breeding grounds.&nbsp;

The&nbsp;giant squid is a species of deep-ocean. It can grow to a tremendous size.

Jellyfish are multicelled animals with soft, jelly-like “bells” and tentacles.

A very large ray, a filter-feeder of open oceans.

A&nbsp;quahog&nbsp;is a kind of edible clam with a very hard shell.&nbsp;

Tiny but highly venomous jellyfish mostly found off the Australian coast. They have the ability to fire stingers from the tips of their tentacles and inject poison.

Squids have different tentacles. When running from hooks their tentacles have suction cups, and their eyes are covered by a transparent membrane.&nbsp;

Most attach themselves to shoreline rocks with tough threads.

The Live-bearing Seastar is a small orange-yellow seastar, with five arms and a rounded pentagonal shape. It's endemic to Tasmania.

Its head is flattened and laterally extended into a "hammer" shape.

A puffer fish notorious for its highly toxic poison. It's a Japanese delicacy.

Named after the dragons of Chinese legends, leafy seadragons&nbsp;resemble the dragon of fairy tales. They are bony fish and they have leaf-like appendages on the head and body.

Whales roam throughout all oceans, communicating with complex and mysterious sounds.

The X-Ray Fish is small. Its skin is translucent, allowing for its bony internal structure to be observed.

Did you know that it can be an echolocator to detect prey at the bottom of the sea?

Marine animal native to the Indian and western Pacific Oceans.

A carnivorous crustacean that speds its time scavenging the deep sea floor.

There are around 300 different species!

A stubby, big mouthed fish.

Sharks inhabit the most diverse oceanic environments, at different temperatures. They are large animals, with a fusiform body and rough skin.

A coastal fish with an eyelike black mark on each side, and long, spiny dorsal fins.

Found in warm seas, tunas are extensively fished commercially. As a result of&nbsp;overfishing, some tuna species are threatened with&nbsp;extinction.

Blue Crabs are crustaceans with five pairs of legs. The first pair is modified as pinchers and the last four pairs are walking legs.

The&nbsp;Queen Angelfish&nbsp;is commonly found near&nbsp;reefs&nbsp;in the Caribbean sea, Brazil and&nbsp;Gulf of Mexico.

Emperor shrimps&nbsp;are common all over the Indo-Pacific region.&nbsp;

&nbsp;It forms symbiotic relationships in order to maximize its chance of survival.

Zebra sharks are&nbsp;nocturnal&nbsp;and spend most of the day resting motionless on the sea floor. At night, they actively hunt for&nbsp;molluscs,&nbsp;crustaceans and small&nbsp;bony fish.

A large mollusc with a relatively small external&nbsp;shell&nbsp;on the dorsal surface.

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Rays are found in all oceans. They feed on plankton and small animals.

Huge, seal-like mammal with long tusks (upper canine teeth) found in the Arctic seas.

Zooxanthellae are unicellular, golden-brown algae that live either in water as plankton or symbiotically inside the tissue of other organisms.

Vampire Squid

Vampire squids are found in tropical oceans and have got large eyes compared to the body. They can be red or blue coloured and have got white beak – like jaws.

Eels are long-bodied marine animals mostly living in shallow waters.

Yakati rainbowfish is a species endemic to West Papua in Indonesia.

It is identical to the dolphin, but it hasn't got the dorsal fin.

A showy tropical fish of the Indian and Pacific Oceans, with dragon-like eyes and fins.

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