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Octopus chierchiae is a small octopus species of the family Octopodidae found in the tropical eastern Pacific, including waters off Central America and northern South America. It is notable among cephalopods for iteroparity: females can lay multiple clutches of eggs during their lives instead of rep...

Mellita notabilis is a species of keyhole sand dollar, a type of flattened sea urchin belonging to the echinoderm family Mellitidae. Like other members of its genus, it is distinguished by its characteristic lunules, which are slots or holes that pass completely through its skeletal test. This marin...

Eucidaris thouarsii is a species of slate-pencil sea urchin belonging to the family Cidaridae, described by Louis Agassiz and L. R. Desor in 1846. It inhabits the eastern Pacific Ocean, with a geographic range extending from the Gulf of California down to Panama. This reef-dwelling echinoid is chara...

Mellita longifissa is a species of irregular echinoid, commonly known as a sand dollar, belonging to the family Mellitidae. It is distinguished by its noticeably elongated posterior lunule, a keyhole-shaped opening in the organism's flattened test. This marine invertebrate is native to the Eastern P...

Meoma grandis is a species of large, irregular heart urchin found in the eastern Pacific Ocean. Originally described by John Edward Gray in 1851, it is closely related to, and often treated as a subspecies of, Meoma ventricosa. These marine invertebrates live buried in sandy sea beds, where they use...

Encope grandis is an irregular sea urchin commonly described as a sand dollar and classified in the family Mellitidae. It inhabits shallow marine environments of the eastern Pacific, where its flattened body is adapted to living on or partly beneath sandy seabeds. Openings in its test, often called...

Lovenia cordiformis is an eastern Pacific heart urchin described by A. Agassiz in 1872 and recorded from sandy seafloors off California and Mexico.

Hesperocidaris panamensis is a pencil urchin native to the eastern Pacific Ocean, distinguished by its thick primary spines and its localized distribution within the Gulf of California.

Conolampas diomedeae is a species of irregular sea urchin in the family Echinolampadidae and the genus Conolampas. The species was described by the Danish zoologist Theodor Mortensen in 1948, so the attribution to Alexander Agassiz and 1883 refers to the genus rather than this species. It is a marin...

Dosidicus gigas is a species of pelagic squid in the family Ommastrephidae, commonly called the Humboldt squid, jumbo squid, or jumbo flying squid. It inhabits the eastern Pacific from the California region to southern Chile, can reach about 1.2 metres in mantle length, and is both an important pred...

Octopus lobensis is a species of benthic octopus described by Castellanos and Menni in 1969. Taxonomic and fisheries references place it in the southwestern Atlantic, where it occurs in shallow water down to roughly 60-80 meters; it has a broad, short mantle, robust arms, and enlarged second and thi...

Octopus oculifer is an accepted species of reef octopus in the family Octopodidae, also called the Galápagos reef octopus. It belongs to the tropical eastern Pacific fauna and is recorded from the Galápagos and from coastal waters extending from California to Mexico, generally in shallow water. The...

Arbacia stellata, commonly called the black starry sea urchin, is a regular sea urchin in the family Arbaciidae. The species was described by Henri Marie Ducrotay de Blainville in 1825 and occurs in the eastern Pacific, including waters off California and Baja California. Like other regular sea urch...

The jewel moray (Muraena lentiginosa) is a marine moray eel of the family Muraenidae native to the eastern Pacific Ocean. It is distinguished by numerous small, pale spots that contrast with its darker body and give the species its jewel-like common name. Like other morays, it has an elongated body,...

Muusoctopus leioderma, formerly known as Octopus leioderma, is a species of octopus described by S. S. Berry in 1911. It is commonly called the smoothskin octopus, reflecting the species name and its relatively smooth skin. The species is associated with the Pacific, including deep-water habitats do...

Brissus gigas is a species of burrowing heart urchin in the family Brissidae and is associated with the coastal waters of New Zealand. H. B. Fell described it in 1947, and later specimens confirmed that it is distinct from the closely related Brissus latecarinatus. The animal lives in sandy or muddy...

An Indo-Pacific octopus whose name 'jubatus' (crested or maned) reflects its distinctive raised skin papillae and textured projections over the head and mantle.

Octopus veligero, commonly called the veiled octopus, is an accepted marine species in the family Octopodidae. It was described by S. S. Berry in 1953 and is recorded in the eastern Pacific, with adult records from waters off the Baja California Peninsula and the Gulf of California. It has short, we...

Small western Pacific octopus named after Selene, the Greek goddess of the moon, found in shallow coastal and intertidal marine habitats.

The Pacific green spiny lobster (Panulirus gracilis) is a spiny lobster distributed along the eastern Pacific coast from Mexico to Peru, commonly found in shallow rocky reef habitats and harvested in artisanal fisheries.

The Pacific slipper lobster, Evibacus princeps, is a marine crustacean in the slipper lobster family Scyllaridae. It occurs in the eastern Pacific, with records extending along the Pacific coasts of Mexico and farther south toward Peru. Its flattened body and broad, plate-like antennae distinguish s...

The yellow snake eel is a marine fish belonging to the family Ophichthidae, first described by Jordan and Evermann in 1887 and native to the eastern Pacific Ocean.

The Panama moray (Gymnothorax panamensis) is a marine eel in the family Muraenidae. It is endemic to the eastern Pacific Ocean, where it occurs in tropical marine habitats associated with reefs and rocky structure. The species was cataloged by the Austrian zoologist Franz Steindachner in 1876 and is...

The fine-spotted moray (Gymnothorax dovii) is a marine eel in the family Muraenidae. It occurs in the eastern Pacific Ocean and is recognized by a yellow body marked with numerous small dark spots. The pattern distinguishes it from more uniformly colored morays and makes the species identifiable in...

The grey moray (Gymnothorax nubilus) is a moray eel recorded from New Zealand and nearby offshore islands, including the Poor Knights area, as well as Lord Howe and Norfolk islands in the Tasman Sea. Its body is pale brown with darker blotches that form a reticulated pattern or indistinct bars, whil...

Lolliguncula panamensis, the Panama brief squid, is a small coastal squid in the family Loliginidae. It is an eastern Pacific neritic species reported from Baja California to northern Peru, although the precise limits are not fully confirmed; it usually occurs in shallow water from 5 to 30 metres, w...

Steindachner's moray (Gymnothorax steindachneri) is a marine moray eel in the family Muraenidae. Like other morays, it has an elongated body and continuous dorsal and anal fins and spends much of its time in holes or crevices, emerging to feed. Its common and scientific names commemorate Franz Stein...