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PO Box 9021, Wilmington, DE
19809, USA
E-mail: tours@focusonnature.com
Phone: Toll-free: 1-888-721-3555
or 302/529-1876
LISTS
AND
PHOTO GALLERIES
of MARINE LIFE
NOT INCLUDING MAMMALS AND
BIRDS
except those for
ICELAND and the CANARY ISLANDS
in which mammals are included
NOTED IN THE LISTS
ARE VARIOUS CREATURES
THAT HAVE BEEN SEEN DURING
FOCUS ON
NATURE TOURS
FOLLOWING
BELOW ARE LINKS TO LISTS WITH SOME PHOTOGRAPHS
OF MARINE LIFE AT VARIOUS PLACES WHERE OVER THE YEARS
THERE HAVE BEEN FOCUS ON NATURE TOURS.
FROM THE LINKS BELOW OTHER LINKS CAN BE REACHED RELATING TO OTHER NATURE
SUCH AS BIRDS, MAMMALS,
BUTTERFLIES and MOTHS, DRAGONFLIES and DAMSELFLIES,
AMPHIBIANS and REPTILES, and PLANTS.
Links:
North
America
& northwestern Mexico
Central
America
& eastern Mexico
|
Shells from an Ocean Beach
in Rio Grande do Sul in far-southern Brazil,
during a FONT Tour in October 2009
(photo by Marie Gardner)
Additional links:
A listing of Upcoming Focus On Nature Tours
A Directory of Photos in this Website
NORTH
AMERICA
& northwestern Mexico
The jellyfish known as
the PORTUGUESE MAN-OF-WAR,
seen offshore during FONT Tours
in North Carolina
Marine Life of
Western North America
along the coasts of the
Pacific Ocean & Gulf of California
including that of coastal
& offshore
Baja California & Sonora, Mexico
A List with some PHOTOS
Shells collected from the
shoreline
of the Gulf of California
during the FONT Tour in Sonora, Mexico
in August 2010
Marine Fish
of Western North America
including those along the coast &
offshore
from Alaska to Baja California
and in the Gulf of California in Mexico
A List with some PHOTOS
A LOGGERHEAD SEA TURTLE
photographed during a FONT Tour
(photo by Alan Brady)
Fish of the
Caribbean
A List with Some Photos
A Blue Hamlet
CENTRAL AMERICA
& MEXICO
A WHALE SHARK
photographed during a FONT Tour
(photo by Marie Gardner)
REGIONAL
CENTRAL AMERICAN & MEXICAN LISTS
OF MARINE LIFE
BELIZE,
HONDURAS
&
eastern MEXICO
The odd creature in the
photo above
was seen at night in the water of a coastal bay
along the shoreline in the northern Yucatan,
during a FONT Mexico tour in March 2009.
In English, it's called the ATLANTIC BLACK SEA HARE.
Its scientific name is Aplysia morio.
In Spanish, it's a "TINTA",
so called because it ejects ink when
disturbed.
The word "tinta" in Spanish means "ink".
The creature, 16 inches long, and 14 inches across,
is in the Phylum Mollusca (the Mollusks),
and in the Class Gastropoda as are other things such as
the Common Periwinkle, the Slipper Limpet, and the Green Ormer.
The ATLANTIC BLACK SEA HARE has been found in Bermuda,
the eastern US, notably Florida, and in Trinidad,
and on Isla Cubagua off the Caribbean coast of Venezuela.
We found it, as noted above, along the coast
of the Yucatan in Mexico.
As seen in the photo, the creature's parapodia are very large
and spread very widely when it is swimming.
It swims in the direction of its "two-pronged head",
in other words, toward the upper left of the photo.
(photo by Marie Gardner)
REGIONAL SOUTH AMERICAN
LISTS
OF MARINE LIFE
BRAZIL
CHILE
Marine
Life of Iceland
and the North Atlantic Ocean
including marine mammals
fish, jellyfish, mollusks
A List with Some Photos
Arctica islandica.
One of these has been found
that lived for more than 500 years,
making the species the longest-lived
non-colonial animal so far discovered.
Common names for Arctica islandica are the Black Clam
and the Ocean Quahog.
Marine Life &
Mammals
of the Canary Islands
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