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List of animals of Long Island Sound

Long Island Sound is a large marine estuary in the Northeastern United States. It forms the maritime border between New York's Long Island and Connecticut. It is diverse and serves as a breeding ground to many different types of marine animal species; the following is a list of said species by scientific and/or common name. Marine mammals are excluded; see List of mammals of New York for the corresponding species.

Sponges (Porifera)

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Comb jellies (Ctenophora)

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Jellyfishes (Cnidaria: Medusozoa)

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Corals (Cnidaria: Alcyonacea and Scleractinia)

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Sea Anemones (Cnidaria: Actiniaria)

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Crustaceans (Arthropoda: Crustacea)

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True Crabs (Decapoda: Brachyura)

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Other decapods

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Mantis Shrimp (Stomatopoda)

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Horseshoe crabs (Arthropoda: Xiphosura)

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Cephalopods (Mollusca: Cephalopoda)

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Gastropods (Mollusca: Gastropoda)

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Littorinimorpha

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This group includes filter feeders, omnivores, and predatory sea snails.

Neogastropoda

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Most neogastropods are predatory sea snails.

Ptenoglossa

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Bivalves (Mollusca: Bivalvia)

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Pteriomorphia

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These filter feeders are either mobile or permanently attached to a substrate.

Heterodonta

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These filter feeders are mostly burrowers.

Echinoderms (Echinodermata)

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Sea Urchins (Echinoidea)

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Sea Cucumbers (Holothuroidea)

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Starfish (Asteroidea)

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Brittle stars (Ophiuroidea)

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Sea squirts (Chordata: Tunicata)

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Cartilaginous fish (Chordata: Chondrichthyes)

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Sharks (Selachimorpha)

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Resident sharks

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Vagrant sharks

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Skates and rays (Batoidea)

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Bony Fish (Chordata: Osteichthyes)

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Eels (Anguilliformes)

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Gadiformes

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Seahorses and pipefishes (Syngnathiformes)

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Jacks (Carangiformes: Carangidae)

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Flatfish (Pleuronectiformes)

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Scorpaeniformes

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Wrasses (Labriformes: Labridae)

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Perciformes

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Drums (Sciaenidae)

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Other Perciformes

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Anglerfish (Lophiiformes)

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Tetraodontiformes

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All of the animals in this category are summer visitors, who migrate northwards from warmer waters in the south.

Miscellaneous Percomorpha

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Gulf Stream Strays

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Mainly all the animals in this category are juveniles carried via the Gulf Stream To the sound and end up dying when the water temperature cools.

References

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  1. ^ Nicol, William L.; Reisman, Howard M. (1976). "Ecology of the Boring Sponge (Cliona celata) at Gardiner's Island, New York". Chesapeake Science. 17 (1): 1. Bibcode:1976CpkSc..17....1N. doi:10.2307/1350571. ISSN 0009-3262. JSTOR 1350571.
  2. ^ "WoRMS - World Register of Marine Species - Neverita duplicata (Say, 1822)".
  3. ^ "Connecticut Sea Grant | UConn". seagrant.uconn.edu. Archived from the original on 2016-11-03. Retrieved 2016-12-13.

Further reading

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  • Lynch, Patrick (2017). A Field Guide to Long Island Sound: Coastal Habitats, Plant Life, Fish, Seabirds, Marine Mammals, and Other Wildlife. Connecticut: Yale University Press. pp. All. ISBN 978-0300220353.
  • Weiss, Howard (1995). Marine Animals of Southern New England and New York. Connecticut: Bulletin. pp. All. ISBN 0-942081-06-4.
  • "NOAA Fish Watch". NOAA Fish Watch.
  • "Fish". ARKIVE. Archived from the original on 2016-02-05.
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