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Animals Animals 3 3 Sea Sea Creatures: Creatures: inhabitants of the inhabitants of the coral reef coral reef Images Origin Images Origin : : mostly at mostly at http://chemistry.csudh.edu/faculty/jim/trip%20reports/Coz%20one%20day%20at%20a%20tim e.html Cozumel Coral Reef Photos. Cozumel Coral Reef Photos.

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Animals 3Animals 3Sea Creatures:Sea Creatures:

inhabitants of the coral reefinhabitants of the coral reefImages OriginImages Origin: :

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Cozumel Coral Reef Photos.Cozumel Coral Reef Photos.

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fish

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Queen angelfish Holacanthus ciliaris

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octopus

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Octopus Octopus vulgaris

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shark

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nurse shark Ginglymostoma cirratum

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coral

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Rose coral Manicina areolata: At first, I couldn't figure out what I was looking at. During the day, the corals look like rocks; the polyps only come out in the dark. I took a picture of one with the polyps retracted, next to one that was actively feeding.

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scallop

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Scallops are bivalves; they have two hard shells and a soft body. They are benthic animals; they spend most of their time on the sea bottom. Scallops mostly stay in underwater grass beds on a soft, shallow sea floor. Scallops use jet propulsion to move; they quickly open and close their shells, squirting the water out of the shells, moving in spurts. These invertebrate animals have a life span of about 1 1/2 years.

A live individual of Argopecten irradians, the Atlantic Bay scallop,

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crab

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Clinging crab , Mithrax forceps

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sea star

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krill

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A northern krill (Meganyctiphanes norvegica)

Krill is a type of shrimp-like marine invertebrate animal. These tiny crustaceans are important organisms of the zooplankton, particularly as food for baleen whales, manta rays, whale sharks, crabeater seals, and other seals, and a few seabird species that feed almost exclusively on them. They congregate in large, dense masses called "swarms" or "clouds," that turn areas of the ocean's surface pink .

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jellyfish

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moray eel

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Spotted moray eel Gymnothorax moringa

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ray

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Southern stingray Dasyatis Americana

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turtle

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