Flower Garden Banks National Marine Sanctuary Encyclopedia

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SANCTUARY ENCYCLOPEDIA

Want to know more about the wonderful creatures that live in and around the Flower Garden Banks National Marine Sanctuary? The Flower Garden Banks section of the Encyclopedia of the Sanctuaries web site is a great place to start. You'll find still images and video clips as well as basic background information on about 100 different animals that call the sanctuary home.

The Encyclopedia of the Sanctuaries also includes information on other sites within the National Marine Sanctuary system and a search mechanism to help you find specific animals.

If you are interested in finding out what species of plants and animals call the coral cap of the sanctuary home, you can download a Recreatonal Diving Species List (240kb pdf) here.

Pale yellow sea slug with bright orange and blue ruffle down its back and bright orange spots on the end of its antennae. Sea slug looks like a snail without its shell and is only a couple inches long.