Puerto Morelos The Aquarium

Emblematic site within the Puerto Morelos Reefs National Marine Park, a reef composed of ridges where reef life abounds, composed of stony and soft corals and an exuberant life of fish.

Critters at this site

Large schools of Yellow grunts, schoolmasters, porkfish, trumpetfish, nurse sharks, moray eel, chubs, etc.

Based on open observations nearbywithin ~5 km — likely to see, not necessarily confirmed at the site itself.

Blunt-spined Brittle Star

Ophiocoma echinata25 obs.

Reticulated Brittle Star

Ophionereis reticulata20 obs.

Red ophiocoma

Ophiomastix wendtii13 obs.

Slimy Brittle Star

Ophiomyxa flaccida11 obs.

Ruby Brittle Star

Ophioderma rubicundum6 obs.

Slangestjerne

Ophiothrix angulata var. atrolineata6 obs.

Christmas Tree Hydroid

Pennaria disticha4 obs.

ニシキツバメガイ

Chelidonura hirundinina3 obs.

Little Six-arm Brittle Star

Ophiactis savignyi2 obs.

Slangestjerne

Astrophyton muricatum2 obs.

Elegant Brittle Star

Ophiolepis elegans1 obs.

Krebsdyr

Caridea1 obs.

Yellow Stingray

Urobatis jamaicensis1 obs.

Southern Stingray

Hypanus americanus1 obs.

Ram's Horn Squid

Spirula spirula1 obs.

spotted seahare

Aplysia dactylomela1 obs.

Krebsdyr

Mexorchestia carpenteri raduloviciae1 obs.

West Indian Chank Shell

Turbinella angulata1 obs.

Snegl (hav-/nøgensnegl)

Marginellidae1 obs.

Dwarf Brittle Star

Amphipholis squamata1 obs.

Whale Shark

Rhincodon typus1 obs.

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Banded Ophiocoma

Ophiocomella pumila25 obs.

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Slangestjerne

Ophiothrix (Ophiothrix) oerstedii lutea24 obs.

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Short-spined Ophioderma

Ophioderma brevicaudum19 obs.