A to Z Marine/ Sea Animals Name
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| Sea Animals Names A to Z |
A
Abalone: a large edible sea snail of coastal waters
Albacore: a prized species of tuna
Anchovy: a small, oily fish of the Atlantic and Pacific, providing food for many fish, marine mammals, and birds
Angelfish: a bright-colored fish of coral reefs
B
Barnacle: an arthropod of coastal waters that attaches itself to rocks and shells
Barracuda: a tropical and subtropical predatory fish with a feisty appearance
Blue Crab: a delicacy on the eastern coast of the US
Blue Whale: the world’s largest marine animal
Bull Shark: an aggressive shark that can thrive in both salt water and fresh water
C
Cleaner wrasse: a coral-inhabiting fish that removes parasites from other fish
Clownfish: a small tropical fish of the Indian and Pacific Oceans, with orange and white stripes
Cod: a deep-sea fish, formerly a staple food in Europe and America, now greatly reduced in numbers in the Atlantic
Conch: an edible shellfish with a distinctive spiral shell
Coral: polyps, mostly tropical, mostly living in huge colonies along with photosynthesizing microorganisms
Crown of Thorns: a large sea star that feeds on corals
D
Dolphin: an intelligent, vocal, social sea mammal
Dottyback: a brightly colored fish of coral reefs
Dragonet: a showy tropical fish of the Indian and Pacific Oceans, with dragon-like eyes and fins
Driftfish: perch-like fish of tropical and subtropical waters, often associated with jellyfish or sargasso weed
Dugong or Sea Cow: a herbivorous marine mammal, a threatened species of the coastal Indian Ocean
Dungeness Crab: a large, prized edible crab from the western coast of North America
E
Eel: long-bodied fishes mostly living in shallow waters
Elephant Seal: a large seal, with big-nosed males, living in the waters around western North America and Antarctica
Emperor Shrimp: a bright-colored shrimp of the Indo-Pacific region that lives cooperatively on other sea animals
Estuarine Crocodile: the world’s largest living reptile, found in Southeast Asian and Australian estuaries
F
Fan Worm: a worm that lives in a tube and feeds by straining seawater with its feathery tentacles
Flounder: a flatfish, camouflaged to match the ocean bottom, with both its eyes located on one side
Flying Fish: a tropical fish with wing-like pectoral fins
Fugu: a puffer fish, a Japanese delicacy, whose body parts contain a nerve toxin
G
Giant Squid: one of the largest living animals, up to 43 feet long, found in the world’s deep oceans
Great White Shark: a large, aggressive shark with a white belly and gray back
Grouper: a stubby, big-mouthed fish; many can change sex from female to male
Grunion: a small, slender fish that spawns on beaches at night in Southern California and Baja California
H
Haddock: a gray bottom-dwelling fish endemic to the North Atlantic Ocean
Hake: a food fish with an elongated body and a large head
Halibut: world’s largest flatfish, diamond-shaped, with one dark side and one light
Herring: a popular food fish that travels in large schools
Humpback Whale: a majestic-looking black-and-white whale with long, wide pectoral fins
I
Irukandji: a tiny but highly venomous jellyfish mostly found off the Australian coast
Isopods: crustaceans, seagoing relatives of sowbugs and pillbugs
J
Jellyfish: among the world’s most ancient multicelled animals, with a soft, jelly-like “bell” and tentacles
John Dory: a coastal fish with an eyelike black mark on each side, and long, spiny dorsal fins
K
Killer Whale or Orca: a toothed, predatory black-and-white whale
King Mackerel or Kingfish: a medium-sized food fish of the Atlantic coast of the Americas
Krill: tiny shrimp-like crustaceans, very numerous in all oceans, important food for other creatures
L
Lamprey: a jawless fish with an eel-like body, circular sucking mouth, and triangular teeth; many are bloodsuckers
Leafy Sea Dragon: a fish with seaweed-like appendages for camouflage
Ling: a long slender fish of the North Atlantic
Lionfish: a venomous fish with red and white stripes and spiny dorsal fins
Lobster: a large crustacean with a muscular tail and two large claws
M
Mackerel: a food fish with a striped back and deeply-pronged tail
Mahi-mahi or Dorado: a medium-sized fish with a long back fin running from head to tail
Manatee or Sea Cow: a large herbivorous sea mammal, related to the dugong, with rounded flippers
Manta Ray: a very large ray (up to 20 feet), a filter-feeder of open oceans
Megalodon: an extinct giant shark, one of the largest predators ever, up to 65 feet long
Mulloway: a predatory fish mostly found on Australian rocky shorelines
Mussel: a two-shelled mollusk; most attach themselves to shoreline rocks with tough threads
N
Narwhal: an Arctic whale whose males have a long tusk
Nautilus: a primitive mollusk of the tropical Pacific, with a spiral shell and tentacles
Needle Fish: a slender-bodied, long-jawed fish of shallow water
Nemertea or Ribbon Worm: a primitive invertebrate with a stinging organ in its front end
Nudibranch: a colorful marine slug
O
Oarfish: a long, slender, seldom-seen fish; 20-foot specimens occasionally wash up on beaches
Octopus: a color-changing mollusk with eight suction-cup-bearing tentacles; the most intelligent invertebrate
Olive Sea Snake: a highly venonomous swimming snake of Indo-Pacific coral reefs
Ostracod or Seed Shrimp: a tiny, two-shelled crustacean, abounding in oceans as well as in humid environments on land
Oyster: a two-shelled mollusk eaten as a delicacy around the world
P
Pilchard or Sardine: a small, oily fish that typically swims in large schools
Plankton: tiny marine organisms of all kinds—animals, plants, bacteria, algae, protists—that play a major role in the world’s food chains and chemical cycles
Porcupine Fish: a spiny tropical marine fish that can inflate itself
Porpoise: a small toothed marine mammal, related to dolphins but with different-shaped nose and teeth
Prawn: a name for the larger kinds of shrimp
Pufferfish or Puffers: poisonous fish (including fugu, above) that inflate into balloon-like shapes when threatened
Q
Quahog: a round, hard-shelled clam of the US Atlantic coast
Queen Conch: a large edible sea snail of the tropical and subtropical western Atlantic
Queensland Blenny: a small fish with comb-like teeth native to coral reefs of the western Pacific
Quillfish: a long, thin, seldom-seen fish of the northeastern Pacific
R
Red Waratah Anemone: a red anenome (a polyp with stinging tentacles) of the shores of Australia and New Zealand
Requiem Shark: a group of aggressive shark species of warm oceans or fresh water
Ringed Seal: a small, earless seal native to the Arctic, that makes breathing holes in sea ice
Ross Seal: a large seal endemic to the Antarctic ice
S
Sea Cucumber: a soft, sausage-shaped echinoderm with leathery skin and a tentacled mouth
Sea Horse: a small, upright-swimming fish (it really is a fish) with a horse-like head
Sea Lion: a large, eared seal with long limbs acting as flippers
Sea Otter: a furry marine mammal of the north Pacific that eats sea urchins, mollusks, crustaceans, and fish
Sea Turtle: seven species of turtles that have flippers for limbs; they may live for hundreds of years
Sea Urchin: an echinoderm, often with a spherical body covered with long spines
Sponge: a marine invertebrate with a porous body without distinct tissues or organs
Starfish or Sea Star: predatory star-shaped echinoderms that crawl on tiny tube feet
Swordfish: a large, migratory fish with a sword-like snout
T
Tiger Shark: a large shark (up to 16 feet) of tropical and subtropical oceans, with dark stripes
Tilefish: a small, spiny fish of tropical and temperate oceans, preferring coral reefs and sandy areas
Trumpetfish: a long, thin fish of the tropical western Atlantic, that often dangles or swims vertically to blend in with its surroundings
Tube Worms: a variety of different marine invertebrates that secrete hard tubes to protect themselves
Tun Shell: a tropical sea snail with a rounded shell said to resemble a “tun” or wine cask
U
Umbrella Shell: a sea slug (gastropod) with a spotted skirt-shaped body extending from its shell
Unicornfish: an Indo-Pacific fish with a horn-like protrusion on its forehead
V
Vampire Squid: a primitive cephalopod living at great depths, covered with light-emitting spots, with dark webbing connecting its tentacles
Velvet Crab: a small swimming crab of the North Atlantic and western Mediterranean
Violet Sea Snail: a purple sea snail of tropical and subtropical oceans that floats on a raft of mucus bubbles
Viper Fish: a deep-sea fish with long, sharp teeth, big jaws, and an illuminated bell-shaped lure
W
Walrus: a large Arctic marine mammal with long tusks and whiskers
Whapuku or Wreckfish: a large fish, prized for food, from the seas off New Zealand and Australia
Whiting: a food fish of the cod family, of the shallow coastal waters off Europe
X
Xiphias: Latin for "swordfish," the genus name for the swordfish group
Xiphosura: The 400-million-year-old class of arthropods that includes horseshoe crabs, which are related to spiders and ticks
Y
Yellowfin Tuna: a large, fast-moving fish of the open ocean, with yellow dorsal fins
Yellowtail Amberjack: a large food fish of the Indo-Pacific region
Yellow Tang: a small bright yellow fish of Indo-Pacific reefs, popular in saltwater aquariums
Z
Zooplankton: the huge variety of tiny animals, eggs, and larvae that drift in oceans
Zebra Turkeyfish: a spotted-and-striped spiny fish of shallow tropical Indo-Pacific waters
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