Life Strategy: The female Australian sea apple has a tube that is several millimeters long with a gonopore on top that is used for breeding, according to FreshMarine.com. Male Australian sea apples have papillae that are used for breeding. Female Australian sea apples lay eggs that are fertilized by the sperm of the male. Food/Feed Strategy: The Australian sea apple is a suspension feeder that uses its tentacles to trap prey, according to FreshMarine.com. Prey for an Australian sea apple includes shrimp, krill, small fish, algae, detritus and meaty bits of seafood.
-Sea cucumber/ Pseudocolochrius violaceus - Softbodied - Floating or going with current
Fish Species Identification Title: Saltwater Invertabrates
Species #: 110
Common Name: Long-spined Sea Urchin Scientific Name: Diadema antillarum Class: Echinoidea
Order: Diadermatoida
Family: Diadematidae
Genus: Diadema
Species: D. antillarum Geography/ Habitat: The long spined sea urchin is widely distributed in both the eastern and western Tropical Atlantic Ocean. Its habitat ranges throughout the West Indian region from Florida to Surinam and was abundent until about 20 years ago.