What Are The Animals That Live In The Coral Reef

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Coral Reef Animal Printouts

Coral reefs are warm, clear, shallow ocean habitats that are rich in life. The reef's massive structure is formed from coral polyps, tiny animals that live in colonies; when coral polyps dice, they exit behind a hard, stony, branching construction made of limestone.

The coral provides shelter for many animals in this complex habitat, including sponges, nudibranchs, fish (like Blacktip Reef Sharks, groupers, clown fish, eels, parrotfish, snapper, and scorpion fish), jellyfish, anemones, ocean stars (including the destructive Crown of Thorns), crustaceans (similar crabs, shrimp, and lobsters), turtles, sea snakes, snails, and mollusks (like octopuses, nautilus, and clams). Birds as well feast on coral reef animals.

Types of Corals: There are 2 types of coral, hard coral and soft coral. Hard corals (similar encephalon coral and elkhorn coral) have hard, limestone skeletons which course the basis of coral reefs. Soft corals (like sea fingers and body of water whips) do not build reefs.

Coral Reef Map Where are Coral Reefs?: Coral reefs develop in shallow, warm h2o, usually well-nigh land, and generally in the tropics; coral prefer temperatures between seventy and 85 ° F (21 - xxx °C). There are coral reefs off the eastern coast of Africa, off the southern coast of India, in the Red Sea, and off the coasts of northeast and northwest Australia and on to Polynesia. There are besides coral reefs off the coast of Florida, U.s.a., to the Caribbean, and down to Brazil.

The Peachy Barrier Reef (off the coast of NE Australia) is the largest coral reef in the globe. Information technology is over i,257 miles (2000 km) long.

Types of Reefs: The different types of reefs include:

Fringing reefs are reefs that form along a coastline. They grow on the continental shelf in shallow water.

Barrier reefs grow parallel to shorelines, but further out, usually separated from the state past a deep lagoon. They are called barrier reefs because they form a barrier between the lagoon and the seas, impeding navigation.

Coral Atolls are rings of coral that grow on top of old, sunken volcanoes in the ocean. They brainstorm as fringe reefs surrounding a volcanic island; so, as the volcano sinks, the reef continues to grow, and eventually only the reef remains.

Coral Reefs in Danger: Many coral reefs are dying. Major threats to coral reefs are water pollution (from sewage and agricultural runoff), dredging off the coast, careless collecting of coral specimens, and sedimentation (when silt or sand from construction or mining projects muddies the waters of a reef and kills coral, which needs light to alive).

Coral Reef Animal Printouts:

Blue Ring Octopus

A small simply very venomous octopus from warm reefs in Australia and nearby regions.

Breakable Star

A bottom-dwelling marine invertebrate with long, spiny arms.

Clam

Burrowing bivalves with a soft torso.

Clown Fish

Colorful fish that live among ocean anemone.

Conch
A marine invertebrate with a large, beautiful beat out.

Coral

Coral is a tiny marine animal that often lives in colonies. Huge colonies of hard corals form coral reefs.

Crab

A crab is an animal with a shell. It has eyes on stalks on its head.

Crustaceans

Crustaceans are animals with a difficult exoskeleton, jointed legs, and a segmented torso.

Fish

Fish live in the water and breathe with gills. Many fish are found in coral reefs.

Galapagos Shark

A large predator found near islands in warm water.

Gastropods

Gastropods are a class of mollusks with a single (or absent) vanquish and a muscular foot.

Hermit Crab

Hermit crabs are crabs that lack a hard trounce; they use a discarded crush for protection.

Horseshoe Crab

The horseshoe crab is a difficult-shelled animal that lives in warm coastal waters on the sea floor.

Jellyfish

Jellyfish are animals that take stinging tentacles. Or go to an unlabeled version.

John Dory
John Dory is a spiny fish with a blackness spot on its side.

Krill

Small crustaceans that are eaten by many animals, including baleen whales.

Lemon Shark

Large, yellowish predators found virtually the surface and at intermediate depths.

Lobster

A hard-shelled marine invertebrate with ten jointed legs.

Human-of-War

The Portuguese man-of-war is a floating colony of animals that has very long, stinging tentacles. Information technology lives in warm ocean waters.

Mollusks

Mollusks are soft-bodied invertebrates. Some mollusks include the octopus, squid, clam, snail, slug, and tusk shells.

Moray Eel Printout

Long, snake-similar fish that have circular gills.

Nurse Shark

A large bottom-domicile shark with rounded fins.

Octopus

Octopuses have 8 legs and live on the sea floor. Go to a uncomplicated version (just the image).

Oyster

The oyster is a bivalve, a soft-bodied marine creature that is protected by ii hard shells.

Pink Conch
Also known as the queen conch, a marine invertebrate with a big, beautiful beat.

Plankton
Plankton are tiny organisms that bladder in the seas and other bodies of h2o.

Pufferfish

Also called blowfish and fugu, this poisonous fish tin can swallow h2o to double its size.

Imperial Body of water Urchin

A spiny, globular animal that lives on the ocean flooring off the western coast of Northward America.

Queen Conch
A marine invertebrate with a big, beautiful shell.

Rays

Rays are flat fish with no bones, only cartilage. Many rays live in coral reefs.

Sandtiger Shark (Sand Shark)

A shark that is cannibalistic earlier birth.

Scallop

Scallops are bivalves, shelled animals that live on the ocean floor.

Ocean Anemone

A predatory animal that looks like a blossom and lives on the ocean floor.

Sea Cow

Body of water moo-cow is another name for manatee. Ocean cows are gentle, slow-swimming, aquatic mammals.

Bounding main Cucumber

Sea cucumbers are cylinder-shaped echinoderms.

Sea Horse

The sea horse is a very strange fish that lives in warm water.

Sea Star

Sea stars, another name for starfish, are animals that alive on the body of water floor.

Ocean Turtle

Ocean turtles are large marine turtles.

Sea Urchin

A spiny, globular animal that lives on the bounding main floor.

Sharks

Sharks are a blazon of fish that accept no bones, merely cartilage. Many sharks alive or chase in reefs.

Stingray

Stingrays are apartment fish with a stinger and no bones (merely cartilage).

Tiger Shark

Tiger Sharks are large predators who are found worldwide in warm seas, including coral atolls.

Whales

Whales are marine mammals. Some whales are found virtually coral reefs.

Whelk

Whelks are marine invertebrates with a spiral crush.

Zebra Bullhead Shark

A bottom-dwelling shark with zebra-similar stripes.

Zooplankton
Zooplankton are tiny animals that float in the seas and other bodies of water.

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Arctic	Desert	Chaparral or Scrub		Taiga = Coniferous Forests	Grassland		Tropical Rainforest	Swimming	Body of water
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