Marine Life

Categories

• Nudibranchs

  The vibrant marine gastropods that add essential biodiversity to our coral reefs.

• Crustaceans

  The ocean’s heavily armored, fascinatingly active crabs, shrimps, and lobsters.

• Cephalopods

  In this category we show you tons of different species of cephalopods, including octopuses, squids and cuttlefish

• Frogfish

  There are a bunch of different species of frogfish in the Philippines, and you can find them here!

• Seahorses and Pipefishes

  Check here to see the large variety of seahorse and pipefish species from around the Philippines

• Reef fish

  There are so many varieties of reef fish around the Philippines, and here are just a few

• Turtles

  The ancient ocean wanderers that graze our seagrass beds and patrol our coral reefs.

• Gobies

  The small, bottom-dwelling fish that share burrows, perch on corals and hide in every corner of the reef.

• Blennies

  The big-eyed, characterful little fish that peer out from holes, shells and corals across the reef.

• Clownfish

  The colourful anemonefish that live safely among the stinging tentacles of their host anemones.

• Snakes & Eels

  The long, sinuous hunters of the reef and sand, from morays and snake eels to sea kraits.

• Lionfish & Scorpionfish

  The venomous masters of camouflage and display, from flamboyant lionfish to hidden scorpionfish.

• Sea Hares

  Sea hares are large, soft-bodied sea slugs with ear-like rhinophores that graze on algae across Philippine reefs and seagrass beds.

• Headshield Slugs

  Headshield slugs are fast-moving, often colourful sea slugs with a shield-like head, many of them active predators on Philippine sand and reef.

• Pleurobranchs

  Pleurobranchs, or sidegill slugs, are sea slugs that carry their gill along one side of the body, found on reefs and sand in the Philippines.

• Snails & Clams

  Shelled molluscs of Philippine reefs, from tiny ovulids and cowries to conchs, sundials and flashing file clams.

• Sharks & Rays

  From whale sharks and threshers to mantas, eagle rays and stingrays: the cartilaginous fishes of Philippine waters.

• Echinoderms

  Sea stars, sea cucumbers, urchins and feather stars: the spiny-skinned, five-sided animals of Philippine reefs and sand.