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These black needle urchins are armed with spines, which they wave menacingly at intruders.

Like other sea urchins, the rough pencil urchin belongs to the phylum Echinodermata.

Slow-growing herbivorous sea snail belonging to the class Gastropoda.

Polychaetes are segmented worms that are some of the most common and diverse creatures found along our shores.

Tube anemones have soft bodies that are enclosed in a protective mucous tube, which the anemones bury in soft sand or mud.

Their bodies are enclosed in an “armour” of fused bony scales, and they have two prominent horns protruding above their eyes. Longhorn cowfish are commonly found in harbours and estuaries.

Convict surgeons are found on shallow inshore reefs, in rock pools and around sheltered wharfs and jetties where seaweeds and algae are plentiful.

Sea goldies live in and around coral reefs in warm tropical oceans. These beautiful little fish are often seen in large shoals and add splashes of colour to the reef.

Emperor angelfish are large reef fish, with compressed bodies and a multitude of yellow and blue horizontal stripes along their sides.

Zebra moray eels live on reefs in warm tropical oceans.

Floral moray eels live in the Indo-West Pacific, the Red Sea and the Western Indian Ocean from Oman to East London.

Geometric moray eels are found on coral reefs in the Red Sea and the Western Indian Ocean, south of the Eastern Cape.