aquatic animal
Lives in water
An aquatic animal is any animal that lives primarily in water—fish, whales, octopuses, and countless others.
The term covers both freshwater and marine species, and includes animals that breathe underwater through gills as well as air-breathing mammals like dolphins and seals: The aquarium houses over two hundred species of aquatic animals.
- sea creatureOcean-inhabiting organism
- fishGilled aquatic vertebrate
- dolphinEcholocating marine mammal
- killer whaleApex ocean predator
- whaleHuge sea mammal
great white · shark · octopus · jellyfish · sea lion · seal · otter · crab · lobster · squid · turtle · tide pool · reef · fins · gills · fish scales · scales · swimming