Click on links below for images of organisms in the "Sample List of Organisms" for the Home Sweet Habitat activity mural. Scientific names are listed for some to aid you in identifying species in the Caribbean region. Page numbers where illustrations can be found in Treasures in the Sea are also provided.
Please note the copyright information on each site regarding use of images.
Contact us about links that don't function and suggestions for other sites.
Jump to a habitat:
Beach (sandy shore)
Rocky Shore
Mangrove Wetland
Seagrass Meadow
Coral Reef
Pelagic Zone
Beach (sandy shore)
Sea oats
See Treasures in the Sea, pages 93, 151.
Bay geranium
Sea grape
Bay cedar
Green turtle (nesting)
Laughing gull
See Treasures in the Sea, page 53.
Ruddy turnstone
Wilson's plover
Yellow legs (shore bird)
Hermit crab
Caribbean land hermit crab (Coenobita clypeatus)
Common sea star
See Treasures in the Sea, page 27.
Sand dollar
See Treasures in the Sea, page 125.
Plankton
See Treasures in the Sea, page 41.
Rocky Shore
Red and green algae
Chiton (curb)
West Indian top snail
(same as top shell, below)
West Indian top shell (whelk) (Cittarium pica)
Keyhole limpet
Bleeding tooth snail (Nerita peloronta)
Santo Domingo mussel (Brachidontes domingensis)
Mat anemone (Zoanthus pulchellus)
Juvenile sea star
Common hermit crab
Long-clawed hermit crab (Pagurus longicarpus)
See Treasures in the Sea, page 118.
Black sea urchin (Diadema antillarum)
See Treasures in the Sea, page 68.
Blenny
Fairy basslet
Sergeant major
Plankton
See Treasures in the Sea, page 41.
Mangrove Wetland
Red, black, white, buttonwood mangroves
Red mangrove
See Treasures in the Sea, page 3.
Red and green algae
Flagfin mojarra (scad)
See Treasures in the Sea, page 108.
Great barracuda (juvenile)
See Treasures in the Sea, pages 89 and 108.
Mangrove gambusia (mosquito fish)
Mangrove/gray snapper
See Treasures in the Sea, page 112.
Great blue heron
Snowy egret
West Indian whistling-duck
Mangrove oyster
Queen conch (juvenile)
See Treasures in the Sea, page 75.
Nassau grouper (juvenile)
Crawfish (juvenile)
See Treasures in the Sea, page 83.
Green turtle
Plankton
See Treasures in the Sea, page 41.
Seagrass Meadow
Turtle grass
Queen conch
Crawfish
Stovepipe sponge (Aplysina archeri)
Rosy razorfish (Xyrichtys martinicensis)
Longsnout seahorse (Hippocampus reidi)
Southern stingray (Dasyatis americana)
See Treasures in the Sea, pages 10 and 110.
Cushion sea star (Pteraster tesselatus)
Stone crab (Menippe mercenaria)
Plankton
See Treasures in the Sea, page 41.
Coral Reef
Stoplight parrotfish
See Treasures in the Sea, page 111.
Nassau grouper
Porcupinefish
Spotted moray eel
See Treasures in the Sea, pages 112, 130.
Damselfish
Crawfish
Reef shark
Southern stingray
See Treasures in the Sea, pages 10 and 110.
Bluehead wrasse
Barracuda
See Treasures in the Sea, pages 89 and 108.
Sea fan
Sea anemone
Sea urchin
See Treasures in the Sea, page 68.
Brain coral
Elkhorn coral
Plankton
See Treasures in the Sea, page 41.
Pelagic Zone
Spotted eagle ray
Hammerhead shark
See Treasures in the Sea, pages 110 and 115.
Flat needlefish
Wahoo
See Treasures in the Sea, page 110.
Yellow jack
Frigate bird
in flight
male displaying
Royal tern
Black jack
Dolphinfish (mahi mahi)
See Treasures in the Sea, page 111.
Marlin
Bottlenose dolphin
See Treasures in the Sea, page 8.
Beaked whale
Green turtle
Whale shark
Plankton
See Treasures in the Sea, page 41.