Invertebrates
Explore animals without backbones, from insects and spiders to octopuses, sea urchins, and jellyfish. Compare their very different ways of moving and feeding.
Species guides
- Moon Jellyfish Aurelia aurita
All 35 invertebrates
- American Cockroach Periplaneta americana
- Beadlet anemone Actinia equina
- Bicolored webspinner Haploembia solieri
- Castor Bean Tick Ixodes ricinus
- Coconut crab Birgus latro
- Common Fish Louse Argulus foliaceus
- Common lobster Homarus gammarus
- Common octopus Octopus vulgaris
- Crown-of-thorns starfish Acanthaster planci
- Cuttlefish Sepia officinalis
- Emperor dragonfly Anax imperator
- European Green Drake Ephemera danica
- European Harvestman Phalangium opilio
- Firebrat Thermobia domestica
- German Cockroach Blattella germanica
- Giant African land snail Lissachatina fulica
- Helix pomatia Helix pomatia
- House Pseudoscorpion Chelifer cancroides
- Large Dark Olive Baetis rhodani
- Monarch butterfly Danaus plexippus
- Moon Jellyfish Aurelia aurita
- Mourning cloak Nymphalis antiopa
- Noble crayfish Astacus astacus
- Norway Lobster Nephrops norvegicus
- Pacific Purple Sea Urchin Strongylocentrotus purpuratus
- Painted Lady Vanessa cardui
- Pond Olive Cloeon dipterum
- Praying mantis Mantis religiosa
- Purple-brown Urchin Arbacia punctulata
- Red admiral Vanessa atalanta
- Scarce swallowtail Iphiclides podalirius
- Shore Earwig Labidura riparia
- Stag beetle Lucanus cervus
- Vampire squid Vampyroteuthis infernalis
- Western Sea Bristletail Petrobius brevistylis