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Jellyfishes & Sponges

Species List by Biome



CONIFEROUS FOREST

Canine heartworm

Giant thorny-headed worm

Mermis nigrescens

Moniliformis moniliformis


CONTINENTAL MARGIN

Aequorea victoria

Black coral

Blue starfish

Botryllus schlosseri

Bucket-tailed loriciferan

Candy cane sea cucumber

Convulutriloba longifissura

Crown-of-thorns

Deep water reef coral

Desmoscolex squamosus

Dicyemodeca deca

Didemnum studeri

Distaplia cylindrica

Distichopora violacea

Dwarf brittle star

Eukrohnia fowleri

Fire coral

Florida lancelet

Frilled anemone

Hawaiian acorn worm

Long-spined sea urchin

Marine colonial entoproct

Medusiform sea daisy

Nightlight jellyfish

Northern Pacific sea star

Notoplana acticola

Oerstedia dorsalis

Oikopleura labradoriensis

Orange sea lily

Oyster leech

Pea urchin

Portuguese man of war

Priapulus caudatus

Pterosagitta draco

Pyrosome

Red coral

Rhopalura ophiocomae

Salp

Sand star

Sea apple

Sea nettle

Sea walnut

Sea wasp

Seison nebaliae

Six keyhole sand dollar

Soleneiscus radovani

Symbion pandora

Thimble jelly

Trichoplax adhaerens

Tropical brittle star

Tuxedo pincushion urchin

Velcro sea star

West Atlantic stalked crinoid

Western sand dollar


DECIDUOUS FOREST

Canine heartworm

Dog tapeworm

Giant thorny-headed worm

Human blood fluke

Mermis nigrescens

Moniliformis moniliformis

Rat lungworm


DESERT

Dog tapeworm


GRASSLAND

Canine heartworm

Dog tapeworm

Fasciola hepatica

Giant thorny-headed worm

Human blood fluke

Lancet fluke

Mermis nigrescens

Moniliformis moniliformis


LAKE AND POND

Asplanchna priodonta

Broad fish tapeworm

Dactylogyrus vastator

Desmoscolex squamosus

Fasciola hepatica

Freshwater planarian

Freshwater sponge

Human blood fluke

Lepidodermella squamata

Paragordius varius

Polystoma integerrimum

Proteocephalus longicollis


OCEAN

Aequorea victoria

Aglantha digitale

Bird's nest sponge

Deep water reef coral

Dwarf brittle star

Eukrohnia fowleri

Frilled anemone

Nightlight jellyfish

Oikopleura labradoriensis

Oligotrema sandersi

Portuguese man of war

Priapulus caudatus

Pterosagitta draco

Pyrosome

Rhopalura ophiocomae

Salp

Sea pig

Spaghetti worm

Tropical brittle star

Venus's girdle


RAINFOREST

Canine heartworm

Dog tapeworm

Giant thorny-headed worm

Human blood fluke

Rat lungworm


RIVER AND STREAM

Broad fish tapeworm

Dactylogyrus vastator

Desmoscolex squamosus

Freshwater planarian

Freshwater sponge

Human blood fluke

Lepidodermella squamata

Limnognathia maerski

Paragordius varius

Proteocephalus longicollis


SEASHORE

Canine heartworm

Desmoscolex squamosus

Dwarf brittle star

Echinoderes sensibilis

Florida lancelet

Frilled anemone

Giant green anemone

Northern Pacific sea star

Notoplana acticola

Oerstedia dorsalis

Oyster leech

Pea urchin

Rat lungworm

Red haplognathia

Rhopalura ophiocomae

Six keyhole sand dollar

Tropical brittle star

Tuxedo pincushion urchin

Western sand dollar


WETLAND

Canine heartworm

Desmoscolex squamosus

Dog tapeworm

Fasciola hepatica

Human blood fluke

Lepidodermella squamata

Rat lungworm


UNKNOWN

Salinella salve

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