The Giant Amazon Leech (Haementeria ghilianii de Filippi, 1849) is the world's largest leech, growing to a length of 18 inches (45.7 cm), and possibly living as long as 20 years.

Read about the destructive activity of Fallicambarus devastator

First Report of Gall-Inhabiting Poecilostome Copepod from a Scleractinian Coral

What may look like a Chinese dragon is in reality the head of the quarter-inch long marine isopod crustacean

These mature tiger cowries have been collected from the Indian, North and South Pacific Oceans, where live specimens can be found in variable depths on reefs and under coral rocks.

First Report of a Syllid Polychaete Association with an Antipatharian Coral

Find these creatures near volcanic vents along the Mid-Atlantic Ridge, where superheated water and dissolved gases spew out from cracks in the earth's surface at the bottom of the sea.

Vestimentifera (vent worms) live in deep-sea hydrothermal vents (up to 2 miles below the ocean surface) around volcanic sulfide plumes.