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Still having problems? How can we help you? This gallery includes images of animals and plants that live under water, either in fresh water or in salt water. Vertebrate animals include freshwater and saltwater fish, and sharks. Invertebrate animals include octopus, prawns, shellfish, corals and anemones. Plants include freshwater species, such as water lilies, and saltwater species such as seaweeds and plankton. If you are searching for marine mammals (seals, sealions, dolphins and whales) they can be found in the WILD MAMMALS gallery. New mages are waiting to be uploaded, so if you can't find what you are looking for please contact us.

Images in this Gallery

A - B

A coral reef with transect lines laid out
A diver and Pacific white-sided dolphin caught in a driftnet
A diver and Pacific white-sided dolphin drowned in a driftnet
A diver on the Rainbow Warrior wreck
A diver with a sea bird caught in a driftnet
A Pacific white-sided dolphin caught in a Japanese driftnet
A Pacific white-sided dolphin caught in Japanese driftnet
A Pacific white-sided dolphin in a driftnet and a Greenpeace inflatable
A Polychaete worm in the sea
A school of Snapper on a coral reef
A sleeping spotty fish on the Rainbow Warrior wreck
A Sooty shearwater caught in a driftnet
A Squid caught in a driftnet
A Sunfish caught in a Japanese driftnet
A Tuna crowd caught in a driftnet
Albacore tuna caught in Japanese driftnet
An Oceanic white-tipped shark caught in a Japanese driftnet
Angas's egg shell
Angel wing
Angled wedge shell
Apple Sea Cucumber
Apricot nudibranch
Arabic volute
Ark shell
Ascidians (pink) and calcereous sponges (white)
Ascidians and anemones
Ascidians and bryozoans
Asian mussel
Auger shell
Australian trumpet
Banded ear shell
Banded Kokopu
Banded nudibranch
Banded periwinkle
Banded Wrasse
Barracuda schooling
Beaded top shell
Bean cowrie
Bearded Scorpionfish
Bigeye
Bigeye Snapper
Biscuit sea star
Biscuit Star
Black Angelfish
Black Coral
Black nerita
Black Ribbon Moray Eel
Black sponge
Black-edged limpet
Blenny
Blood and codium weed
Blood weed
Blue cod
Blue Cod with diver
Blue Cushion Star
Blue Discus fish
Blue eyed triplefin in red weed
Blue half crab
Blue Moki
Blue mussel
Blue red weed
Blue Shark
Blue shark caught in a driftnet
Blue shark caught in a Japanese driftnet
Blue shark caught in driftnet
Blue-eyed triplefin
Blue-spotted Spinefoot
Blue-spotted Stingray
Bluestreak Cleaner wrasse

C - F

Cushion star upside down with stomach extended
Cusp shell
Cuttlefish
Dahlia sea anemone
Dark rock shell
Date mussel
Dawn murex
Deep water Venus
Dentate limpet
Devil's Hand Leather coral, Mushroom anemones, Button polyps
Diadema urchin
Diver above sponges giving the 'OK' signal
Diver and a male Sandager Wrasse
Diver and an old anchor
Diver by underwater wall
Diver in light rays
Diver looking at gauges in green water
Diver looking through hole in wreck of Rainbow Warrior
Diver next to gorgonian covered wall
Diver next to Taioma shipwreck covered in anemones
Diver on Rainbow Warrior wreck
Diver on Taioma, tug boat looking at crayfish
Diver on Waikato wreck
Diver photographing Leatherjackets
Diver silhouette
Diver swimming over yellow sponges
Diver watching Red Moki
Diver with a large jellyfish
Diver with a Snapper and an Eagle ray
Diver with a Wandering anemone
Diver with an Eagle ray
Diver with kelp and sponges
Diver with Macrocystis kelp
Diver with Red Moki
Diver with Sandager's wrasse
Diver with Sandagers Wrasse
Diver with sea urchins and orange ascidians
Diver with seven-armed sea star
Diver with Snapper
Diver with snapper doing the 'OK' signal
Diver with squid
Diving looking at Gorgonian fans
Dog's foot cockle
Dwarf Hawkfish
Dwarf Scorpionfish
Eagle Ray
Ecklonia holdfasts with orange bryozoans
Electric Yellow Cichlid
Elegant Venus
Encrusted limpet
Fan shell
Feathery sea hare
Felaniella
Female Giant Boarfish
Female leatherjacket
Female Red pigfish
Female Sandager's wrasse
File shell
Fine Dosinia
Fine wentletrap
Finger sponge
Fire brick sea star
Firebrick Seastar
Fish skeleton
Flame angel
Flapjack seaweed
Forster Hawkfish
Freshwater Angelfish
Freshwater crayfish