 Some truly ugsome Octopods, Cuttle fishes and Squid live in TARP. If you want to identify one, try looking it up on Cephbase.  A whole range of creatures are related to Jellyfishes; not least amongst these in TARP are the Box Jellyfishes (see the News archive for TARP-related stories). Soft and hard corals are part of this gang; for identification, try out: Coralidea CoralSearch  Crinoids (feather stars) are an abundant and fantastically coloured crew, to be found on almost any dive in TARP; difficult to identify but try out Messing. Sea cucumbers, Starfishes and Urchins (all based on a pentagon one way or another) are also abundant (often with their own coterie of fishes and shrimps in, on and under them).  My particular interest in TARP has been to photograph and catalogue species of fishes to which I have devoted a page in this site. PLANKTON Plankton research has dipped into TARP with published results:  Both clams and snails can be found within the park (REMEMBER THAT THEY ARE BOTH PROTECTED BY INTERNATIONAL AS WELL AS LOCAL LAWS). To identify what you've seen, try out: Hardy's internet guide Seashell-Collector  Outlandish and awesome! I'm hoping one day to put together my own little list but for now if you see one and want to identify it, try the following sites: Nudipixel Sea slug forum  Odd little bags of water but in their larval stage they are clearly the precursors of vertebrates; for identification, try: Ascidians.com  Green and Hawksbill turtles can occasionally be seen in TARP. To identify, visit Sea Turlte Tracking. |