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









                                                                                             

Brittle star

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A bottom-dwelling marine invertebrate with long spiny arms.

Coelacanth

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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

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Burrowing bivalves with a soft body.

Copepod

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Copepods are tiny crustaceans from fresh and salt water .

Crab

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

Cuttlefish

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

Eels

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fish that go through metamorphosis 

Echinoderms 

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

Gastropod

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

Gray Whale

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

Greenland Shark

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

Hatchet Fish

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Hatchet fish are oddly-shaped

Hermit crab

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

Horseshoe Crab

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

Jellyfish

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Jellyfish are animals that have stinging tentacles

John Dory

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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

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

Limpet

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

Lobster

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A hard shell marine invertebrate with ten jointed legs.

Mollusks

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Mollusks are soft-bodied invertebrates. 

Octopus

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Octopi have eight legs and live on the sea floor.

Oyster

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

Plankton 

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

Pufferfish

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

Purple Sea Urchin

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

Sand Dollar

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

Scallop

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

Sea Anemone 

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

Sea Cucumber

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Sea cucumber are cylinder-shaped echinoderms.

Sea Star 

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

Sea Urchin

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

Shrimp

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

Snail

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

Sperm Whale

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

Squid

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

Starfish

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

Zooplankton 

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

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