Raymond's Picture Dictionary

Friday, November 03, 2006

Sea Animals



SEA URCHIN
---Any of various echinoderms of the class Echinoidea, having a soft body enclosed in a round, symmetrical, calcareous shell covered with long spines.




MORAY EEL
---Any of numerous chiefly tropical eels of the family Muraenidae, having porelike gill openings and no pectoral fins.





CUTTLEFISH
--- Any of various squidlike cephalopod marine mollusks of the genus Sepia that have ten arms and a calcareous internal shell and eject a dark inky fluid when in danger.




Hippocampus
---A complex neural structure (shaped like a sea horse) consisting of gray matter and located on the floor of each lateral ventricle; intimately involved in motivation and emotion as part of the limbic system; has a central role in the formation of memories




STARFISH
---Any echinoderm of the class Asteroidea, having the body radially arranged, usually in the form of a star, with five or more rays or arms radiating from a central disk; asteroid.

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