JAWBONE MARINE SANCTUARY CARE GROUP (Inc)

This Inventory of species of animals and plants found in the Jawbone Marine Sanctuary is a work in progress. 

We would like YOU to contribute to it!

You can do this by sending us photos of interesting things you have seen in Jawbone.  These may be better photos of species already in the Inventory, or something you think is new to us.  Please tell us when you saw it, at what depth and what the substrate was like (sand, rock etc)...and roughly where you saw it.  Use the place names we have given to the different parts of the Sanctuary to describe this.  (These are shown elsewhere on this page). If you can offer an identification please do.

Also if you can identify some of the plants or animals that we have not managed to identify, or you think we have made a mistake please let us know.

We hope you enjoy the wonderful diversity that there is in this very special place, so close to Melbourne!

Email: jawbonemarinesanctuary@gmail.com

Click on one of the links below to see all images of species in that category in our inventory to date.

The following groups of related plants and animals are:

Seagrasses (Magnoliophyta);

Algae (Sea weed: brown, green, red);

Jellyfish, Anemones, Corals etc (Cnidaria);

Sponges (Porifera);

Bryozoa;

Worms (of many kinds: Annelida; Nemertea; Platyhelminthes (flatworms).

Crabs, Shrimps, Barnacles etc (Arthropoda;Crustacea);

Sea snails, Sea slugs, Nudibranchs, Octopus, Squid etc (Mollusca);

Starfish, Sea Urchins, Sea Cucumbers (Echinodermata);

Sea squirts and Acorn worms (Chordata:Ascidiacea and Hemichordata);

Sharks and Rays (Chondrichthyes);

Fish (bony) (Osteichthyes);