--- title: "Ocean Animals (Page 2 of 5) | AnimalTracks.wiki" description: "Master of open marine waters, balancing salinity through osmoregulation and traversing major planetary currents." image: "https://animaltracks.wiki/icon-512.png" canonical: "https://animaltracks.wiki/tags/ocean/page/2/" --- # Ocean Animals (Page 2 of 5) > Master of open marine waters, balancing salinity through osmoregulation and traversing major planetary currents. **107 species in this collection.** - [Calanus Copepod](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/calanus-copepod/) (*Calanus finmarchicus*) - **Superpower**: Stores energy in a large oil sac of wax esters - **Musical Match**: Steve Roach (Glacial Ambient & Drone Soundscapes) - [California Sea Lion](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/california-sea-lion/) (*Zalophus californianus*) - **Superpower**: One sea lion learned to bob its head in time with a rhythm, even complex music - **Musical Match**: Earth, Wind & Fire (Classic Funk, Soul & Disco) - [Casper Octopus](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/casper-octopus/) (*Incirrata sp.*) - **Superpower**: No pigment cells and a diaphanous, jelly-like body with almost no muscle, in a food-scarce world - **Musical Match**: Grouper (Dream Pop & Shoegaze) - [Coelacanth](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/coelacanth/) (*Latimeria chalumnae*) - **Superpower**: Fleshy, lobed fins whose front and back pairs move in a diagonal rhythm, like the legs of a four-legged land animal. - **Musical Match**: Ahab (Sludge Metal & Abyssal Doom) - [Comb Jelly](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/comb-jelly/) (*Pleurobrachia pileus*) - **Superpower**: Eight ciliated diffraction comb rows, and colloblasts, cells that discharge adhesive substances to aid in subduing prey - **Musical Match**: Donna Summer (70s Pop & Glam Disco) - [Common Cuttlefish](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/common-cuttlefish/) (*Sepia officinalis*) - **Superpower**: Camouflage built from about 30 skin pattern components, shape-shifting papillae muscles, and polarized vision that may help it see through other animals' camouflage. - **Musical Match**: Deftones (90s Alt-Metal & Shoegaze) - [Common Hermit Crab](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/common-hermit-crab/) (*Pagurus bernhardus*) - **Superpower**: Rapping on a rival's shell to try to evict the owner and take its home - **Musical Match**: The Winstons (Classic Funk, Soul & Disco) - [Common Octopus](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/common-octopus/) (*Octopus vulgaris*) - **Superpower**: Skin patterns carried out by over half a million neurons in the chromatophore lobes of its brain - **Musical Match**: Robyn (2010s Pop & Electropop) - [Common Starfish](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/common-starfish/) (*Asterias rubens*) - **Superpower**: Pushes its stomach into a mussel shell and digests the meal inside - **Musical Match**: Bohren & der Club of Gore (Glacial Ambient & Drone Soundscapes) - [Dugong](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/dugong/) (*Dugong dugon*) - **Superpower**: Rips up whole seagrass plants with a flexible upper lip - **Musical Match**: Low (Slowcore & Minimal Indie) - [Emperor Penguin](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/emperor-penguin/) (*Aptenodytes forsteri*) - **Superpower**: Dives deeper than 500 meters and longer than 23 minutes, with hemoglobin that grips oxygen unusually tightly. - **Musical Match**: Ólafur Arnalds (Neo-Classical & Baroque Chamber) - [European Eel](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/european-eel/) (*Anguilla anguilla*) - **Superpower**: Swims 5,000 to 10,000 km across the Atlantic to spawn - **Musical Match**: Kali Malone (Glacial Ambient & Drone Soundscapes) - [European Herring Gull](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/european-herring-gull/) (*Larus argentatus*) - **Superpower**: Paddles its feet on the ground to flush worms to the surface - **Musical Match**: Eurythmics (80s Pop & Dance Anthem) - [European Storm Petrel](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/european-storm-petrel/) (*Hydrobates pelagicus*) - **Superpower**: Runs on stomach oil while incubating (if that oil supplies all its energy, it accounts for 76% of the weight lost each day on the nest), and its chicks can apparently recognize their own body odor - **Musical Match**: Tokio Hotel (2000s Pop-Rock & Emo) - [Flamboyant Cuttlefish](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/flamboyant-cuttlefish/) (*Metasepia pfefferi*) - **Superpower**: In captivity it often sends colors traveling across its mantle, in many kinds of situations. Other cuttlefish are generally seen doing this while hunting or showing aggression. - **Musical Match**: Pat Thomas & Kwashibu Area Band (West African Highlife & Palm-Wine Music) - [Frilled Shark](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/frilled-shark/) (*Chlamydoselachus anguineus*) - **Superpower**: Six frilly gill slits, tricuspid teeth, and a lineage estimated at 82 million years old. - **Musical Match**: Bring Me The Horizon (Modern Alt-Metal & Post-Hardcore) - [Gentoo Penguin](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/gentoo-penguin/) (*Pygoscelis papua*) - **Superpower**: Bimodal diving: in one tracking study, shallow dives averaged 4 metres and deep dives 80 metres - **Musical Match**: Backstreet Boys (90s Pop & Eurodance) - [Geography Cone Snail](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/geography-cone-snail/) (*Conus geographus*) - **Superpower**: Venom insulin that appears to be part of the "nirvana cabal," a toxin mix released into the water to disorient schools of small fish, which the snail then engulfs and harpoons with a hollow radular tooth. - **Musical Match**: Carpenter Brut (French Dark Electro & EBM) - [Giant Antarctic Sea Spider](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/giant-antarctic-sea-spider/) (*Colossendeis megalonyx*) - **Superpower**: Like other sea spiders it has no gills: oxygen diffuses in through pores in its cuticle - **Musical Match**: BIG|BRAVE (Sludge Metal & Heavy Drone) - [Giant Barrel Sponge](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/giant-barrel-sponge/) (*Xestospongia muta*) - **Superpower**: Can filter up to 50,000 times its own volume of seawater every day - **Musical Match**: Sunn O))) (Sludge Metal & Heavy Drone) - [Giant Clam](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/giant-clam/) (*Tridacna gigas*) - **Superpower**: Hosts billions of algae in its own tissues and gets the majority of its nutrients from them - **Musical Match**: Hiroshi Yoshimura (Glacial Ambient & Drone Soundscapes) - [Giant Oarfish](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/giant-oarfish/) (*Regalecus glesne*) - **Superpower**: Swims with its body held straight by rippling a dorsal fin that runs its whole length, and has been seen swimming upright, which is believed to be how it searches for prey. - **Musical Match**: Stars of the Lid (Glacial Ambient & Drone Soundscapes) - [Giant Pacific Octopus](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/giant-pacific-octopus/) (*Enteroctopus dofleini*) - **Superpower**: Three hearts, blue copper-rich blood, about 2,140 to 2,240 suckers that grip, taste, and smell, and a body that can squeeze through any hole large enough for its beak. - **Musical Match**: Radiohead (Trip-Hop & Velvet Downtempo) - [Giant Squid](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/giant-squid/) (*Architeuthis dux*) - **Superpower**: Two long feeding tentacles that strike and tangle prey - **Musical Match**: Bell Witch (Sludge Metal & Abyssal Doom) - Previous Page: https://animaltracks.wiki/tags/ocean/ - Next Page: https://animaltracks.wiki/tags/ocean/page/3/