Tidepool life
Living things to photograph and release
35 entries in the Florida guide
Atlantic Ghost Crab
Ocypode quadrata
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Atlantic Horseshoe Crab Molt
Limulus polyphemus
Beaded Sea Star
Astropecten articulatus
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Bearded Fireworm
Hermodice carunculata
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Blue Button
Porpita porpita
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Blue Crab Molt
Callinectes sapidus
Blue Dragon
Glaucus atlanticus
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Brain Coral Fragment
Diploria and Pseudodiploria species
Protected, do not collect
Brittle Star
Ophiuroidea
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By-the-Wind Sailor
Velella velella
Cannonball Jelly
Stomolophus meleagris
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Florida Stone Crab
Menippe mercenaria
Restricted
Goose Barnacle
Lepas anatifera
Gulf Stone Crab
Menippe adina
Restricted
Lacy Bryozoan
Membranipora sp.
Lettuce Sea Slug
Elysia crispata
Protected, do not collect
Lined Sea Star
Luidia clathrata
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Mole Crab
Emerita talpoida
Moon Jelly
Aurelia aurita
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Nine-armed Sea Star
Luidia senegalensis
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Portuguese Man o' War
Physalia physalis
Protected, do not collect
Ridged Slipper Lobster
Scyllarides nodifer
Restricted
Sargassum
Sargassum species
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Sea Cucumber
Holothuria floridana
Protected, do not collect
Sea Fan
Gorgonia species
Protected, do not collect
Sea Hare
Aplysia sp.
Protected, do not collect
Sea Pansy
Renilla reniformis
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Sea Pork
Aplidium species
Sea Whip
Leptogorgia species
Protected, do not collect
Spanish Slipper Lobster
Scyllarides aequinoctialis
Restricted
Sponge Fragment
Spongia and Ircinia species
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Spotted Porcelain Crab
Porcellana sayana
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Striped Barnacle
Amphibalanus amphitrite
Striped Hermit Crab
Clibanarius vittatus
Protected, do not collect
Upside-down Jellyfish
Cassiopea
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