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Mollusks & Crustaceans

Species List by Biome



CONIFEROUS FOREST

Common pillbug

Common shiny woodlouse

Roman snail

Tongue worm

CONTINENTAL MARGIN

Common octopus

Giant tiger prawn

Green bonellia

Gumboot chiton

Hutchinsoniella macracantha

Longfin inshore squid

Nannosquilla decemspinosa

Norwegian tubeworm

Peacock mantis shrimp

Pearly nautilus

Phoronis ijimai

Queen scallop

Red king crab

Sand isopod

Sea mat

Sipunculus nudus

Skeleton shrimp

Speleonectes gironensis

Tusk shell

Veiled chiton

DECIDUOUS FOREST

Common pillbug

Common shiny woodlouse

Gippsland giant worm

River worm

Roman snail

Tongue worm

DESERT

Common pillbug

Tongue worm

GRASSLAND

Common pillbug

Common shiny woodlouse

Gippsland giant worm

Roman snail

Tongue worm

LAKE AND POND

Anaspides tasmaniae

Antrobathynella stammeri

Common water flea

Fish louse

Longtail tadpole shrimp

Mysis relicta

North American medicinal leech

Red swamp crayfish

Zebra mussel

OCEAN

Amphionides reynaudii

Antarctic krill

Apseudes intermedius

Black lampshell

Black-lipped pearl oyster

Common octopus

Corolla spectabilis

Cyclaspis longicaudata

Dahlella caldariensis

Fire worm

Geography cone shell

Giant clam

Giant red mysid

Honeycomb worm

Hydrothermal vent worm

Itoitantulus misophricola

Laevipilina antarctica

Monstrilla grandis

Myzostoma cirriferum

North Pacific krill

Oithona plumifera

Pearly nautilus

Queen scallop

Red king crab

Salmon louse

Sand isopod

Sipunculus nudus

Sperm whale lice

Spiomenia spiculata

Top shell

Tubeworm

Tusk shell

Vampire squid

RAINFOREST

Epiperipatus biolleyi

Tongue worm

RIVER AND STREAM

Anaspides tasmaniae

Antrobathynella stammeri

Common water flea

Fish louse

North American medicinal leech

Red swamp crayfish

River worm

Spelaeogriphus lepidops

Thermosbaena mirabilis

Zebra mussel

SEASHORE

Beach hopper

Common octopus

Coquina clam

Derocheilocaris typicus

Fire worm

Giant tiger prawn

Gumboot chiton

Harlequin shrimp

Honeycomb worm

Mictocaris halope

Phoronis ijimai

Queen scallop

Rock barnacle

Sand fiddler crab

Sand isopod

Shield limpet

Sipunculus nudus

Stygiomysis cokei

Trypetesa lampas

Vargula hilgendorfii

Veiled chiton

TUNDRA

Giant yellow water bear

WETLAND

Common water flea

Giant Amazonian leech

North American medicinal leech

Red swamp crayfish

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