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ARTHROPODS:

• BARNACLES
  • Acorn
  • Bay
  • Goose
  • Ivory
• CRABS
  • Hairy Clinging
  • Blue Land
  • Blue, Ornate
  • Decorater
  • Fiddler, Mudflat
  • Fiddler
  • Flame Box
  • Ghost
  • Hermit, Caribbean
  • Hermit, Mexican Blue-legged
  • Hermit, Striped
  • Horseshoe
  • Mangrove Root
  • Sally Lightfoot
• Lobster, Caribbean Spiny
• Shrimp, Asian Tiger
• Shrimp, Pink
• Shrimp, Snapping

VERTEBRATES:

• Crocodile, American
• Crocodile, Morelet's
• Dolphin
• Turtles, Sea

MISC. INVERTEBRATES:

• Anemone, Brown Glass
• Anemone, Caribbean Carpet
• Brittle-Star, Banded-arm
• Bryozoa
• Bryozoan, encrusting type
• Bryozoan, White Tangled
• Coral
• Hydroid, feather type
• Lined Water Jelly
• POLYCHAETES
  • Fireworm
  • Lugworm castings
  • Polychaetes on a Mudflat
  • Polychaete Worm Tubes on Oyster Shell
  • Polychaete Worm Tubes with Sand Attached
  • Polychaete Worm Tubes on Shoalgrass
• Portuguese Man-of-war
• Sand Fleas
• Sea-Cucumber, Donkey Dung
• Sea-Cucumber, Florida
• Sea Fan
• Sea Gooseberries
• Sea Star, Spiny
• Sea-urchin, Variegated
• Sea-Urchin, Long-spined
• Sponges
• Sponge, Orange Ball
• Sponge, "Orange Branching"
• Tunicate, Mangrove
• Upside-down Jellyfish

IDENTIFY SPONGES at http://www.spongeguide.org by searching an image database on the sponge's color, consistency and morphology