Arctic Ocean Animals List

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Arctic ocean animals list. According to the Census of Marine Lifes CoML Arctic Ocean Diversity website two taxonomic groups make up over half of all arctic fish species. Walruses polar bears arctic foxes seals brown bears beluga whales arctic wolves bowhead whales and narwhals. Adaptations are like super powers for animals and plants.

If you think of an animal in the Arctic Region there are probably a couple or few that comes to your mind. They make their own food through photosynthesis. Polar bear is the famous inhabitant of the Arctic Ocean.

In ice-covered regions of the central Arctic Ocean polar cod is a central predator of primary consumers. Arctic Fox - Vulpes lagopus Arctic Hare - Lepus arcticus Arctic Wolf - Canis lupus arctos Caribou Reindeer - Rangifer tarandus Moose - Alces alces Musk Ox - Ovibos moschatus Polar Bear - Ursus maritimus Wolverine - Gulo gulo Dall Sheep - Ovis dalli Ermine - Mustela erminea Lemming - Lemmus lemmus Sea Otter - Enhydra lutris Snowshoe Hare Snowshoe Rabbit. The Arctic shrew the Arctic ground squirrel the red fox moose muskrats and lemmings.

Arctic animals can be divided into small herbivores large herbivores and predators. The small herbivores are the most numerous animals represented by Arctic rodents like lemmings and Arctic ground squirrels and the beautiful Arctic hare. Those animals deserve to be recognized and might as well with the fish species.

The humpback whale Megaptera novaeangliae is one of the largest aquatic mammals in the world measuring a length of 14 meters with a weight of around 36 tons. Lets meet these 4 amazing mammals from the Arctic Ocean. No arctic animals list would be complete without the polar bear.

It spans an area of 14056000 km2 with 45390 km of coastline. Banded coral shrimp a native of the coast of. Animals adapt to their environments to help them survive.