Story: Marine animals without backbones All images & media From page 1 – Sponges and jellies Marine animals of New Zealand Bath sponges Sponges (1st of 3) Yellow finger sponge (2nd of 3) Vase sponge (3rd of 3) Stalk of a glass sponge (1st of 2) Rock sponge (2nd of 2) Comb jelly From page 2 – Simple worms Worms in New Zealand seas Multivirile flatworm Flatworm life cycle Ribbon worms Marine roundworm From page 3 – Advanced worms Bristle-worm Tube worm Peanut worm on a golf-ball sponge Spoon worm From page 4 – Lace corals and lamp shells Bryozoan limestone (1st of 2) Forrester Gallery, Ōamaru (2nd of 2) Lace coral Lamp shell interior White lamp shells From page 5 – Tiny sea animals Mud dragon From page 6 – Tunicates: sea squirts, salps and appendicularians Sea squirts (1st of 3) Bluebell sea squirts (2nd of 3) Sea tulips (3rd of 3) Researching sea squirts Salp chain From page 7 – Lancelets, lampreys and hagfish Lamprey (1st of 2) Swimming lamprey (2nd of 2) Hagfish