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LISTS & PHOTO GALLERIES 
of MARINE LIFE
NOT INCLUDING MAMMALS & BIRDS

NOTING CREATURES SEEN DURING 
PREVIOUS FOCUS ON NATURE TOURS

FOLLOWING HERE ARE LINKS TO LISTS OF MARINE LIFE, WITH SOME INFO & PHOTOS, RELATING TO FONT BIRDING & NATURE TOURS, AT VARIOUS DESTINATIONS.
FROM THESE LINKS THERE ARE OTHERS TO LISTS OF OTHER NATURE DURING THE TOURS,
AND INFORMATION ABOUT PAST & UPCOMING FONT TOURS.

Links:

North America
& northwestern Mexico

Caribbean

Central America
& eastern Mexico

South America

Europe

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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

Marine Life of Eastern North America
along the coast 
of the Atlantic Ocean
including that of coastal & offshore
North Carolina & Florida
and north into Canada
A List with some PHOTOS

Marine Fish
of Eastern North America
A List with Some Photos

The jellyfish known as 
the PORTUGUESE MAN-OF-WAR,
seen offshore during FONT Tours
in North Carolina

Marine Life of Southeastern North America
along the coasts of the
Atlantic Ocean & the Gulf of Mexico
including that of coastal & offshore
Florida & Texas
A List with Some PHOTOS

Marine Fish
of Southeastern North America
including those of coastal & offshore
Florida & Texas
A List with some PHOTOS

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 

CARIBBEAN

A LOGGERHEAD SEA TURTLE
photographed during a FONT Tour
(photo by Alan Brady)

Marine Life of the Caribbean
including Sea Turtles, Fish,
Corals & Jellyfish, Mollusks (Shells),
and Arthropods (Crustaceans & Echinoderms),
in the Cayman Islands,
and in the Greater & Lesser Antilles
A List with some PHOTOS 

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)

More About the Whale Shark

REGIONAL 
CENTRAL AMERICAN & MEXICAN LISTS
OF MARINE LIFE

BELIZE & 
eastern MEXICO

Marine Life of Belize & eastern Mexico
including that of the coral reef
A List with some PHOTOS

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) 

Fish of Belize & eastern Mexico
including the Yucatan
& Cozumel Island
A List with Some Photos

SOUTH AMERICA

REGIONAL SOUTH AMERICAN LISTS 
OF MARINE LIFE

BRAZIL

CHILE

EUROPE

Marine Life & Mammals
of the Canary Islands 


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