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Sand dollars (like those pictured in this set of illustrations) are flattened, burrowing sea urchins. Dead, sunlight-bleached specimens resemble silver coins, hence their common name. These figures portray a sand dollar’s lifecycle from larva to adult.
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Sea Urchins

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A side-view of a blenny fish with a back background.
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Blenny Fish - Haptoclinus dropi

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Two red flame scallops with white tentacles attached to a sandy substrate.
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Flame Scallop

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A golden bass with sand in the background.
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Golden Bass - Liopropoma santi

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Shell of an orange and white cone snail species.
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A New Cone Snail - Attenuiconus marileeae

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The siphonophores are an order of marine animals in the phylum Cnidaria (the same phylum containing jellyfish). 
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Siphonophores

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Amphipods on a blade of seagrass.
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Amphipods on Seagrass

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In Vancouver, isopods on a blade of seagrass.
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Isopods on Seagrass

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A wounded warrior and a SCUBAnaut practice compass navigation in a field.
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SCUBAnauts Practice Navigation

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Blue Dragon nudibranchs are very common to the southeast coast of Australia and have a few color variations. Juveniles are white with blue rhinophores, and adults vary from dark purple to lavender to golden brown.
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Serpent Pteraeolidia

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Valentinni's sharpnose puffer lives on Indo-Pacific coral reefs, where it shoals in groups of 10-100 puffers and feeds on algae and tunicates.
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Valentinni's Sharpnose Puffer

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A hawksbill sea turtle with a transmitter on its back.
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Satellite-Tagged Hawksbill Sea Turtle

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