SEA ANIMALS.

OYSTER

A bivalve marine mollusc with a rough, flattened, irregularly oval shell, several kinds of which are farmed for food or pearls.

WALRUS

Large sea-animal living in the arctic regions, similar to a seal but having two long tusks.

SHELLS

The usually hard outer covering that encases certain organisms, such as mollusks, insects, and turtles; the carapace.

JELLYFISH

They have a soft body, no hard covering.They have tentaclesand their poison kills other animals or prey

SEAHORSE

a small sea fish that swims upright and has a head that looks like the head of a horse.

SEALION

an eared seal occurring mainly on Pacific coasts, the large male of which has a mane on the neck and shoulders. [Five genera and species in the family Otariidae.]

CLAM

burrowing marine mollusk living on sand or mud.

MANTA RAY

cartilaginous fishes having horizontally flattened bodies and enlarged winglike pectoral fins with gills on the underside; most swim by moving the pectoral fins

STARFISH

echinoderms characterized by five arms extending from a central disk.

SEAGULL

n. a large common gray or white aquatic bird having long pointed wings and short legs. It lives near the sea.

KILLER WHALE

n. a very large animal that lives in the sea and looks like a fish, althought it is a mammal. predatory black-and-white toothed whale with large dorsal fin; common in cold seas that feeds on large fish, squid, and sometimes dolphins and seals.

Eel

n. voracious snakelike marine or freshwater fishes with smooth slimy usually scaleless skin and having a continuous vertical fin but no ventral fins

BELUGA

small northern whale that is white when adult

OCTOPUS

Any of numerous carnivorous marine mollusks of the genus Octopus or related genera, found worldwide. It has a rounded soft body, eight arms with each bearing two rows of suckers, a large distinct head, and a strong beaklike mouth. Also called devilfish.

LOBSTER

Any of several edible marine crustaceans of the family Homaridae, especially of the genus Homarus, having stalked eyes, long antennae, and five pairs of legs, the first pair of which is modified into large pincers.

MUSSEL

Any of several marine bivalve mollusks, especially the edible members of the family Mytilidae and in particular Mytilus edulis, a blue-black species raised commercially in Europe. Mussels are often found attached to rocky surfaces or the sides of ships.

OTTER

Any of various aquatic, carnivorous mammals of the genus Lutra and allied genera, related to the minks and weasels and having webbed feet and dense, dark brown fur.

MANATEE

Any of various herbivorous aquatic mammals of the genus Trichechus, having paddlelike front flippers and a horizontally flattened tail and found in warm coastal waters of Florida, northern South America, West Africa, and the Caribbean.

SQUID

Any of various marine cephalopod mollusks of the genus Loligo and related genera, having a usually elongated body, ten arms surrounding the mouth, a vestigial internal shell, and a pair of triangular or rounded fins.

CRAB

Any of various predominantly marine crustaceans of the division Brachyura within the order Decapoda, characterized by a broad flattened cephalothorax covered by a hard carapace with a small abdomen concealed beneath it, short antennae, and five pairs of legs, of which the anterior pair are large and pincerlike.

SHRIMP

Any of various small, chiefly marine decapod crustaceans of the suborder Natantia, many species of which are edible, having a compressed or elongated body with a well-developed abdomen, long legs and antennae, and a long spinelike projection of the carapace.