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Marine animals without backbones


by Dennis Gordon and Maggy Wassilieff

About 90% of the animals in New Zealand waters are marine invertebrates. These creatures without a backbone come in a huge variety of body shapes. Millions of sponges, jellies and worms live, burrow and wriggle in sea, sediment, sand, and inside other animals.

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Main image: A bristle-worm

A bristle-worm


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