35 Great Barrier Reef Animals and Their Ecological Roles, Attributes - Felsics.com

Great Barrier Reef animals include reptiles like sea turtle, saltwater crocodile, sea snakes and marine lizards; mammals like bottlenose dolphin, dugong, Australian fur seal and humpback whale; fish like parrotfish, clownfsh, butterflyfish, giant trevally, surgeonfish, anemone fish and humphead wrasse; crustaceans like shrimps, lobsters and crabs; mollusks like sea snails, giant clams, octopuses and nudibranches; poriferans like staghorn sponge, and barrel sponge; echinoderms like sea urchins, sea stars, sea cucumbers; coelenterates like corals, sea anemones, jellyfish; aquatic birds like crested tern, brown booby, pied cormorant; and annelids like Christmas tree worm.