Marine Life of Sunset Beach, NC

excluding mollusks (seashells) and most fish

This is only a partial list. Sample photos below.

Acorn Barnacles Amphipods, various species Atlantic Sharpnose Sharks Australian Spotted Jellyfish, invasive Blues Blue Buttons Blue Crabs Box Jellyfish Brittle Stars, various species Brown Finger Sponges Bryozoans Calico Crabs Cannonball or Cabbage Head Jellyfish Colonial Tunicates Cownose Stingrays Decorated Tube Worms Dolphins Fiddler Crabs Fireworms Flat-clawed Hermit Crabs Forbes Sea Stars Ghost Crabs Ghost Shrimp Goose Barnacles Grass Shrimp Hairy Sea Cucumbers Hermit Anemones

Horseshoe Crabs Hydrozoans Iridescent Swimming Crabs Isopods, various species Lady Crabs Lepidopa Websteri Crabs Lined Sea Star Loggerhead Sea Turtles Long-wristed Hermit Crabs Luidia alternata Mantis Shrimp Marginated or Beaded Sea Stars Megabalanus coccopoma, invasive barnacle Moon Jellyfish Onion Anemones Peppermint Shrimp Permit Fish Polychaete Worms and Worm Tubes Porcelain Crabs Portuguese Man-of War Purse Crabs Red Beard Sponges Rubbery Bryozoans Sabellarid Worms and Worm Tubes Sand Dollars Sargassum Crabs Sea Pansies

Sea Squirts Sea Urchins, white Sea Urchins, purple Sea Whip Barnacles Sea Whips Smooth Dogfish Sharks Snapping Shrimp Spaghetti Worms Speckled Crabs Spider Crabs Spineback Hairy Crabs Star Coral Stone Crabs Striped Burrfish Striped Hermit Crabs Thyonella Gemmata Tidal Spray Crabs Toadfish Various other sea anemones Various other barnacles Various other crabs Various other fish Various other sponges Various other stingrays Warty Sea Anemones

Colonial Tunicate			Forbes Sea Star			Horseshoe Crab Molt
Moon Jellyfish			Red Beard Sponge			Ghost Crab
Sand Dollar			Spider Crab -- unable to pinch you			Sea Whip - soft coral
Sea Anemone			Stone Crab			Spineback Hairy Crab