Joel Sartore Joel Sartore

National Geographic Photographer and Speaker

Keyword: Aquatic

Photo: A group of eastern white slippersnails (Crepidula plans) on the inside of the shell of a lightning whelk (Busycon contrarium) photographed at Gulf Specimen Marine Lab and Aquarium.

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A group of eastern white slippersnails (Crepidula plans) on the inside of the shell of a lightning whelk (Busycon contrarium) photographed at Gulf Specimen Marine Lab
and Aquarium.

Photo: A group of eastern white slippersnails (Crepidula plans) on the inside of the shell of a lightning whelk (Busycon contrarium) photographed at Gulf Specimen Marine Lab and Aquarium.

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A group of eastern white slippersnails (Crepidula plans) on the inside of the shell of a lightning whelk (Busycon contrarium) photographed at Gulf Specimen Marine Lab
and Aquarium.

Photo: A group of olive nerite snails (Neritina reclivata) photographed at Gulf Specimen Marine Lab and Aquarium.

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A group of olive nerite snails (Neritina reclivata) photographed at Gulf Specimen Marine Lab and Aquarium.

Photo: A group of olive nerite snails (Neritina reclivata) photographed at Gulf Specimen Marine Lab and Aquarium.

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A group of olive nerite snails (Neritina reclivata) photographed at Gulf Specimen Marine Lab and Aquarium.

Photo: A group of clouded periwinkle snails (Littoraria nebulosa) photographed at Gulf Specimen Marine Lab and Aquarium.

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A group of clouded periwinkle snails (Littoraria nebulosa) photographed at Gulf Specimen Marine Lab and Aquarium.

Photo: A group of clouded periwinkle snails (Littoraria nebulosa) photographed at Gulf Specimen Marine Lab and Aquarium.

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A group of clouded periwinkle snails (Littoraria nebulosa) photographed at Gulf Specimen Marine Lab and Aquarium.

Photo: An alternate tellin clam (Tellina alternata) photographed at Gulf Specimen Marine Lab and Aquarium.

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An alternate tellin clam (Tellina alternata) photographed at Gulf Specimen Marine Lab and Aquarium.

Photo: An alternate tellin clam (Tellina alternata) photographed at Gulf Specimen Marine Lab and Aquarium.

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An alternate tellin clam (Tellina alternata) photographed at Gulf Specimen Marine Lab and Aquarium.

Photo: A white sea pork (Didemnum candidum) photographed at Gulf Specimen Marine Lab and Aquarium.

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A white sea pork (Didemnum candidum) photographed at Gulf Specimen Marine Lab and Aquarium.

This is a tunicate, a colonial animal, shown on turtle grass.

Photo: A white sea pork (Didemnum candidum) photographed at Gulf Specimen Marine Lab and Aquarium.

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A white sea pork (Didemnum candidum) photographed at Gulf Specimen Marine Lab and Aquarium.

This is a tunicate, a colonial animal, shown on turtle grass.

Photo: A pear whelk (Fulguropsis spirata) photographed at Gulf Specimen Marine Lab and Aquarium.

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A pear whelk (Fulguropsis spirata) photographed at Gulf Specimen Marine Lab and Aquarium.

Photo: A rock snail (Thais haemastoma floridana) photographed at Gulf Specimen Marine Lab and Aquarium.

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A rock snail (Thais haemastoma floridana) photographed at Gulf Specimen Marine Lab and Aquarium.

Photo: A pair of rock snails (Thais haemastoma floridana) photographed at Gulf Specimen Marine Lab and Aquarium.

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A pair of rock snails (Thais haemastoma floridana) photographed at Gulf Specimen Marine Lab and Aquarium.

Photo: A Jujube top snail (Calliostoma jujubinum) photographed at Gulf Specimen Marine Lab and Aquarium.

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A Jujube top snail (Calliostoma jujubinum) photographed at Gulf Specimen Marine Lab and Aquarium.

Photo: A Jujube top snail (Calliostoma jujubinum) photographed at Gulf Specimen Marine Lab and Aquarium.

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A Jujube top snail (Calliostoma jujubinum) photographed at Gulf Specimen Marine Lab and Aquarium.

Photo: Two Florida cerith snails (cerithium atratum) photographed at Gulf Specimen Marine Lab and Aquarium.

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Two Florida cerith snails (cerithium atratum) photographed at Gulf Specimen Marine Lab and Aquarium.

Photo: Two Florida cerith snails (cerithium atratum) photographed at Gulf Specimen Marine Lab and Aquarium.

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Two Florida cerith snails (cerithium atratum) photographed at Gulf Specimen Marine Lab and Aquarium.

Photo: A group of Florida augers (Neoterebra dislocata) photographed at Gulf Specimen Marine Lab and Aquarium.

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A group of Florida augers (Neoterebra dislocata) photographed at Gulf Specimen Marine Lab and Aquarium.

Photo: A pair of banded tulip snail (Cinctura lilium) photographed at Gulf Specimen Marine Lab and Aquarium.

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A pair of banded tulip snail (Cinctura lilium) photographed at Gulf Specimen Marine Lab and Aquarium.

Photo: A pair of banded tulip snails (Cinctura lilium) photographed at Gulf Specimen Marine Lab and Aquarium.

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A pair of banded tulip snails (Cinctura lilium) photographed at Gulf Specimen Marine Lab and Aquarium.

Photo: A tinted cantharus (Pisania tincata) photographed at Gulf Specimen Marine Lab and Aquarium.

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A tinted cantharus (Pisania tincata) photographed at Gulf Specimen Marine Lab and Aquarium.

Photo: A tinted cantharus (Pisania tincata) photographed at Gulf Specimen Marine Lab and Aquarium.

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A tinted cantharus (Pisania tincata) photographed at Gulf Specimen Marine Lab and Aquarium.

Photo: A encrusting sand tube worm (Sabellaria sp.) on the shell of a North America or common oyster (Crassostrea virginica) photographed at Gulf Specimen Marine Lab and Aquarium.

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A encrusting sand tube worm (Sabellaria sp.) on the shell of a North America or common oyster (Crassostrea virginica) photographed at Gulf Specimen Marine Lab and Aquarium.

Also attached are ivory barnacles (Balanus eburneus).

Photo: A encrusting sand tube worm (Sabellaria sp.) on the shell of a North America or common oyster (Crassostrea virginica) photographed at Gulf Specimen Marine Lab and Aquarium.

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A encrusting sand tube worm (Sabellaria sp.) on the shell of a North America or common oyster (Crassostrea virginica) photographed at Gulf Specimen Marine Lab and Aquarium.

Also attached are ivory barnacles (Balanus eburneus).

Photo: A pair of sand disc bryozoans (Discoporella doma) photographed at Gulf Specimen Marine Lab and Aquarium.

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A pair of sand disc bryozoans (Discoporella doma) photographed at Gulf Specimen Marine Lab and Aquarium.

This animal provides shelter for many other organisms. Inside is calcareus tube worm (Hydroides crucigera) and encrusting sand tube worm (Sabellaria sp.)

Photo: A pair of sand disc bryozoans (Discoporella doma) photographed at Gulf Specimen Marine Lab and Aquarium.

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A pair of sand disc bryozoans (Discoporella doma) photographed at Gulf Specimen Marine Lab and Aquarium.

This animal provides shelter for many other organisms. Inside is calcareus tube worm (Hydroides crucigera) and encrusting sand tube worm (Sabellaria sp.)

Photo: A ribbed cardita (Carditamera floridana) photographed at Gulf Specimen Marine Lab and Aquarium.

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A ribbed cardita (Carditamera floridana) photographed at Gulf Specimen Marine Lab and Aquarium.

Photo: A ribbed cardita (Carditamera floridana) photographed at Gulf Specimen Marine Lab and Aquarium.

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A ribbed cardita (Carditamera floridana) photographed at Gulf Specimen Marine Lab and Aquarium.

Photo: A group of dwarf olive snails (Olivella lactea) photographed at Gulf Specimen Marine Lab and Aquarium.

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A group of dwarf olive snails (Olivella lactea) photographed at Gulf Specimen Marine Lab and Aquarium.

Photo: An Atlantic wing oyster (Pteria colymbus) photographed at Gulf Specimen Marine Lab and Aquarium.

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An Atlantic wing oyster (Pteria colymbus) photographed at Gulf Specimen Marine Lab and Aquarium.

Photo: An Atlantic wing oyster (Pteria colymbus) photographed at Gulf Specimen Marine Lab and Aquarium.

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An Atlantic wing oyster (Pteria colymbus) photographed at Gulf Specimen Marine Lab and Aquarium.

Photo: A turkeywing clam (Arca zebra) photographed at Gulf Specimen Marine Lab and Aquarium.

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A turkeywing clam (Arca zebra) photographed at Gulf Specimen Marine Lab and Aquarium.

Photo: A turkeywing clam (Arca zebra) at Gulf Specimen Marine Lab and Aquarium.

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A turkeywing clam (Arca zebra) at Gulf Specimen Marine Lab and Aquarium.

Photo: A mahogany date mussel (Lithophaga bisulcata) at Gulf Specimen Marine Lab and Aquarium.

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A mahogany date mussel (Lithophaga bisulcata) at Gulf Specimen Marine Lab and Aquarium.

This animal bores into lime rock to live inside. Shown here inside the rock it bored into.

Photo: A mahogany date mussel (Lithophaga bisulcata) at Gulf Specimen Marine Lab and Aquarium.

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A mahogany date mussel (Lithophaga bisulcata) at Gulf Specimen Marine Lab and Aquarium.

This animal bores into lime rock to live inside. Shown here inside the rock it bored into.

Photo: A mahogany date mussel (Lithophaga bisulcata) at Gulf Specimen Marine Lab and Aquarium.

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A mahogany date mussel (Lithophaga bisulcata) at Gulf Specimen Marine Lab and Aquarium.

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