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.
