Animals

Featured Creatures collection was founded in1996, a cooperative venture of the University of Florida's <a href="http://entnemdept.ufl.edu/">Entomology and Nematology Department</a> and the Florida Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services' <a href="https://www.fdacs.gov/Divisions-Offices/Plant-Industry">Division of Plant Industry</a>.&nbsp; It provides in-depth profiles of insects, nematodes, arachnids and other organisms.&nbsp;

Featured Creatures collection

Invertebrates

Arthropods

Molluscs

Mollusca

Mollusca (taxonomic phylum)

Snails and Slugs

Crustaceans

Crustáceos

Insects

Insectos

Arachnids

Clams

Almejas

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A tract of corals growing on a massive, wave-resistant structure and associated sediments, substantially built by skeletons of successive generations of corals and other calcareous reef-biota.

Coral Reefs

Arrecifes de coral

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University of Florida/IFAS Photo 17515 by Marisol Amador


Horseshoe Crabs

Cangrejos herradura

Invasive Invertebrates

Invertebrate organisms that live on or in another organism (the host), and benefit at the expense of the other. Traditionally excluded from definition of parasites are pathogenic bacteria; fungi; viruses; and plants; though they may live parasitically. [NALT]
An organism that lives at the expense of another (host) during some portion of its life cycle. Usually a parasite does not kill its host. [AGROVOC]

Parasites

Parásitos 

Shellfish is a colloquial and fisheries term for exoskeleton-bearing aquatic invertebrates used as food, including various species of molluscs, crustaceans, and echinoderms.

Shellfish

Mariscos 

Earthworms

Lombrices 

Elongated, cylindrical, unsegmented worm; includes a number of plant and animal parasites.&nbsp;