Invertebrates in the Hudson River
Amphipod under a microscope, yellow in color
Order Amphipoda
Barnacles sitting on the tank floor
Infraclass Cirripedia
A bloodworm coiled up
Glycera spp.
A blue crab with large pinchers
Callinectes sapidus
Blue mussels close up next to orange coral
Mytilus edulis
Comb Jellyfish white long rounded legs cupped in an oval shape
Phylym Ctenophora
Grey Eastern Oyster waiting to feed
Crassostrea virginica
A grass shrimp with long antenna in a glass circle plate
Palaemonetes pugio
Microscopic organisms known as Lacy Crust Bryozoan
Membranopora membranacea
A small mud crab with two long pinchers in the front
Family Xanthidae
Oyster Drill, a brown curly shell creature with a drill bottom
Urosalpinx cinerea
A black ribbed mussel in the palm of a hand
Geukensia demissa
A sand shrimp in the palm of a hand. Tiny creatures brown and gold
Crangon septemspinosa
A 9 legged Spider Crab, that resembles a spider
Libinia emarginata
Three brownish oval shaped surf clams
Family Mactridae
A long mantis shrimp in its tank
Squilla empusa