Species Guide — Marine Life

Marine
Life

The species that can be found in our waterways and the sea

Marine Life

423 species documented

Filter All Fish Crabs & Allies Sponges & Seaweeds Sharks & Rays Whales & Dolphins Octopus & Squid Sea Stars Jelly fish Shellfish Other

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Turbinate Margin Shell

Mesoginella turbinata

A red crab on rock covered with short seaweed

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Nectocarcinus tuberculosus

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Velvet Leatherjacket

Meuschenia scaber

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Vermillion Seastar

Pentagonaster duebeni

The small shell of Naricava vincentiana on top of other shells

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Vincentian vanikoro

Naricava vincentiana

A purple sponge on a rock underwater

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Chelonaplysilla violacea

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Waratah Anemone

Actinia tenebrosa

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Warty Twig Seaweed

Scaberia agardhii

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Wavy Spindle Shell

Propefusus undulatus

A brownish black spotted top shell amongst seaweed washed up

Green Australian Map shape with the word Endemic over it

Clanculus undatus

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Lunella undulata

A brown and white marine snail on a wet sandy beach

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Amoria undulata

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Western Australian Salmon

Arripis truttaceus

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Western Black Nerite

Nerita atramentosa

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White Cleidothaerus

Cleidothaerus albidus

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Irus carditoides

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Thin white bivalve shells laying on sand

Limaria imitans

Limaria imitans a marine bivalve species washed up along Tomahawk Beach

Hermit crab in a shell underwater

A small hermit crab species this guy is under 10mm in size

A sea-slug on a rock underwater

Macleay’s sea-slug (Baeolidia macleayi)

Macleay’s sea-slug (Baeolidia macleayi)<br><br> https://tomahawk.org.au/flora-fauna/view-species/baeolidia-macleayi

A marine flatworm on a rock underwater

Carpet Flatworm (Thysanozoon brocchii)

Carpet Flatworm (Thysanozoon brocchii) <br><br> https://tomahawk.org.au/flora-fauna/view-species/thysanozoon-brocchii