Portal:Marine life

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List of aquaria
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List of marine aquarium fish species
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Ramsar list of wetlands of international importance
List of Ramsar sites in Scotland
List of Ramsar Wetland sites in Pakistan
List of sharks
List of Ramsar wetlands of Thailand
List of regional bird lists
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United States Fish and Wildlife Service list of endangered species
List of whale species
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A male whale shark at the Georgia Aquarium.

The Marine Life Portal

Marine life, sea life, or ocean life is the plants, animals, and other organisms that live in the salt water of seas or oceans, or the brackish water of coastal estuaries. At a fundamental level, marine life affects the nature of the planet. Marine organisms, mostly microorganisms, produce oxygen and sequester carbon. Marine life, in part, shape and protect shorelines, and some marine organisms even help create new land (e.g. coral building reefs).

Marine invertebrates exhibit a wide range of modifications to survive in poorly oxygenated waters, including breathing tubes as in mollusc siphons. Fish have gills instead of lungs, although some species of fish, such as the lungfish, have both. Marine mammals (e.g. dolphins, whales, otters, and seals) need to surface periodically to breathe air. (Full article...)

Marine biology is the scientific study of the biology of marine life, organisms in the sea. Given that in biology many phyla, families and genera have some species that live in the sea and others that live on land, marine biology classifies species based on the environment rather than on taxonomy. (Full article...)

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Aquatic organisms

Aquatic life in culture

Amphibious organisms

Aquatic animals

Brackish water organisms

Fictional aquatic creatures

Freshwater organisms

Aquatic fungi

Marine microorganisms

Marine organisms

Mythological aquatic creatures

Organisms living on hydrothermal vents

Plankton

Aquatic plants

Semiaquatic organisms

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Marine biology

Biological oceanography

Marine biologists

Books about sharks

Marine botany

Cetology

Conchology

Films about marine biology

Fisheries science

Marine biological stations

Marine organisms

Planktology

Major Fields of Marine Biology: Marine Biology - Ecology - Zoology - Animal Taxonomy
Specific Fields of Marine Biology:Herpetology - Ichthyology - Planktology - Ornithology
Biologists:Zoologists - Algologists - Malacologists - Conchologists - Biologists - Marine Biologists - Anatomists - Botanists - Ecologists - Ichthyologists
Organisms:

Plants: Algae - Brown Algae - Green Algae - Red Algae - Edible seaweeds -
Invertebrates:Cnidarians - Echinoderms - Molluscs - Bivalves - Cephalopods - Gastropods
Fish: Fish - Bony fish - Lobe-finned fish - Ray-finned fish - Cartilaginous fish - Electric fish - Fish diseases - Rays - Sharks - Extinct fish - Fictional fish - Fisheries science - Fishing - Fishkeeping - Live-bearing fish
Reptiles and Amphibians: Marine reptiles - Sea turtles - Mosasaurs - Sauropterygians
Mammals: Marine mammals - Cetaceans - Pinnipeds - Sirenians

Misc.: Aquariums - Oceanaria - Agnatha - Endangered species - Aquatic biomes - Biogeographic realms - Aquatic organisms - Cyanobacteria - Dinoflaggellates

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