Animals That Live In The Twilight Zone

Angelshark- A bottom-dwelling relatively harmless with a flattened body and blunt snout.
Brittle star

A bottom-dwelling marine invertebrate with long spiny arms.
Coelacanth

The Coelacanth (pronounced SEE-la-canth) is a primitive lobe-finned fish that was thought to have been extinct for millions of years, but a living Coelacanth was caught in the Indian Ocean off the coast of South Africa in 1938.
Clam

Burrowing bivalves with a soft body.
Copepod

Copepods are tiny crustaceans from fresh and salt water .
Crab

A crab is an animal with a shell. it has eyes on stalks on its head.
Cuttlefish

Cuttlefish are cephalopods with relatively short legs, a fin along the entire mantle, and an internal cuttlebone.
Eels

fish that go through metamorphosis
Echinoderms

Spiny-skinned bottom-dwelling marine invertebrates with five-fold symmetry
Gastropod

Gastropods are a class of mollusks with a single shell and a muscular foot
Gray Whale

The gray whale is a baleen whale that is a bottom feeder; it migrates very long distances every year
Greenland Shark

A large slow-swimming shark with glow-in-the-dark eyes
Hatchet Fish

Hatchet fish are oddly-shaped
Hermit crab

Hermit crabs are crabs that lack a hard shell; they us a discarded shell for protection
Horseshoe Crab

The horse shoe crab is a hard shelled animal that lives in warm coastal waters
Jellyfish

Jellyfish are animals that have stinging tentacles
John Dory

John Dory is a spiny fish with a black spot on its side. it lives near the sea floor, when it is from 15-120ft. deep.
Krill

Small crustaceans that are eaten by many animals, including baleen whales.
Limpet

The limpet is a marine invertebrate with a flattened cone-shaped shell .
Lobster

A hard shell marine invertebrate with ten jointed legs.
Mollusks

Mollusks are soft-bodied invertebrates.
Octopus

Octopi have eight legs and live on the sea floor.
Oyster

The oyster is a bivalve, a soft-bodied marine animal that is protected by two hard shells
Plankton

Plankton are tiny organisms that float in the seas and other bodies of water.
Pufferfish

Also called a blowfish and fugu, this poisonous fish can swallow water to double its side.
Purple Sea Urchin

A spiny, globular animal that lives on the ocean floor off the western coast of North America.
Sand Dollar

Sand dollars are echinoderms, disk-shaped spiny-skinned sea bed animals that have 5-part radial symmetry.
Scallop

Scallops are bivalves, shelled animals that live on the ocean floor.
Sea Anemone

A predatory animal that looks like a flower and lives on the oceans floor.
Sea Cucumber

Sea cucumber are cylinder-shaped echinoderms.
Sea Star

Sea stars, another name for starfish, are animals that live on the ocean floor.
Sea Urchin

A spiny, globular animal that lives on the ocean floor.
Shrimp

Shrimp are small, bottom-dwelling crustaceans with a translucent exoskeleton.
Snail

A soft-bodied animal with a hard, protective shell.
Sperm Whale

The sperm whale is the largest toothed whale; it is over fifty feet long. it eats giant squid.
Squid

The squid is a fast-swimming invertebrate with ten arms.
Starfish

Sea stars, another name for starfish, are animals that live on the ocean floor.
Zooplankton

Zooplankton are tiny animals that float in the seas and other bodies of water.