1. 2P’s Guide to Long Island Sound Creatures
May 2016

2. Sea Star Lives in shallow waters It has 5 arms It eats clams
They get washed into shallow water
The average number eggs is 1,000,000
By Allison

3. Barnacle Lives close to the water and in shallow and tidal waters
Looks like a feathery leg comes out of shell
Eats plankton
There are more than 1,000 known species
By Brendan

4. Fiddler Crab It lives in intertidal mud of salt marshes
Digs hole in mud to live in
Its shell is olive brown
They eat tiny bits of fungus and rotting plants and fish
The males have one really large claw
They move around like they’re playing the violin
By Brooke

5. Heron Looks like a flamingo Eat fish, snakes and big insects
There are 64 species of the heron
It lives in ponds, marshes and swamps
They have long necks
Their wings can be twice the size of their body
BY CHASE
Heron

6. Hermit Crab It lives in depths up to 150 feet The body is long
Eats detritus (mud), algae
It borrows the shells of other animals for its home
By Ella

7. Moon Jelly Floats near the surface in off shore water
See thru tentacles, shaped like a bell
Eats plankton, fish eggs, sometimes other jellies
Grow up to 16 inches wide
Predators are sea turtles, and sunfish
By Georgia

8. Lobster Lives on bottom by the shoreline
They are five colors red, blue, green, purple and yellow
Eats types of seafood
They hide in burrows under rocks
They can be one hundred years old
By Jay

9. HORSESHOE CRAB Lives in estuaries 2 FEET long with a pointy tail
Eat worms
Has a hard shell
By Jordan

10. Striped Bass Lives in Long Island Sound in summer
Winter lives in lakes
Dark stripes, green and gray
Silver scales underneath
Sharp spines
Eats other fish
World record fish caught in LIS- 82 pounds and 54 inches long
By Hayes
Striped Bass

11. Bluefish Lives in estuaries off of sandy beaches
It’s green, not so blue
Has sharp teeth
Can be 20 pounds and 40 inches long
Eats squid, crabs, butterfish, menhaden, shad, herring, and smaller bluefish
Their predators are sharks, tuna, striped bass, sword fish, and humans
By Lillian
Bluefish

12. FLOUNDER It lives in the water on the ocean floor
It is 5 to 25 inches long and a flat fish that looks like sand
It eats small fish and shrimp and crabs
They only live for 3 to 10 years
Mikey
FLOUNDER

13. Smooth Dogfish Shark By Owen Lives in the shallow Long Island Sound
Looks like a fish-like shark
Eats fish and invertebrates
Uses its teeth to crush crabs and lobsters
Its cat-like
Humans hunt them
By Owen

14. Spider Crab The spider crab lives in shallow water
It looks brown, it’s small, it has 8 legs
It eats dead fish and sea squirts
It’s 4 inches long
Its predators are gulls
By Robbie

15. Lions Mane Jellyfish
It floats near shore in offshore waters in the Long Island Sound.
It has a yellow orange color on the top of it.
It eats fish eggs, zoo plankton and small shrimp.
Its predators are sunfish, sea turtles and some sea birds.
By Soren

16. Clam Many colors, 2 shells connected by hinges Eats plankton
It lives on the sea floor
Clams are a few inches long
By Talia
Clam

17. Harbor Seal It lives in deep water.
They range in color from brown, tan, light-grey and have whiskers.
It eats lobster, fish or crabs.
Their predators are killer whales and sharks.
By Zoe