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Mellita tenuis is a living keyhole sand dollar whose notably thin, flattened test is adapted to shallow, wave-worked sandy seabeds.
Schizaster floridiensis is a heart urchin described by Kier and Grant in 1965, notable for its occurrence around Florida and the Florida Keys.
Schizaster orbignyanus is a Caribbean heart urchin described by Alexander Agassiz in 1880 from material dredged by the survey vessel Blake.
The dwarf pygmy octopus of the western Atlantic, one of the smallest known octopus species, distributed from Florida through the Caribbean Sea.
A small octopus of the tropical western Atlantic and Caribbean described by Adam in 1936, associated with shallow reef habitats across the region.
Echinolampas sternopetala is an irregular sea urchin in the cassiduloid family Echinolampadidae, distinguished by its petal-shaped ambulacral areas.
A small western Atlantic octopus found from the Gulf of Mexico into the Caribbean, known for occupying discarded shells and crevices in shallow seagrass habitats.
A lycoteuthid squid found in the western Atlantic Ocean, named to recognize contributions to deep-sea cephalopod research and representing one of the lesser-studied members of its family.
The smoothtail spiny lobster (Panulirus laevicauda) is a spiny lobster native to the tropical western Atlantic from the Caribbean to southern Brazil, distinguished by its relatively smooth abdominal surface.
Lolliguncula brevis, the Atlantic brief squid, is a small estuarine loliginid tolerant of low salinity, found along the US Atlantic and Gulf of Mexico coasts.
Brown alga (family Sargassaceae) native to the western Atlantic from Canada to Brazil, common on rocky intertidal and subtidal communities along eastern North American shores.
The Florida deepsea lobster (Nephropsis aculeata) is a small, clawless deepwater lobster found in the western Atlantic from the Gulf of Mexico to the Caribbean, living at depths typically exceeding 200 metres.
