Larger life forms or vertebrates are organisms that have an internal skeleton backbone, they also share other characteristics such as a skull to protect the brain and they all reporoduce through mating between male and female. Fish are actually the oldest known vertebrate, making the ocean the grounds for the evolution of land animals. The vertebrates consist of the largest animals in any ecosystem, however invertebrates massively out number them. Let's dive into all the vertebrates present in India's marine ecosystems.
Weedy scorpionfish | Joydeep Sarkar
Honeycomb grouper | Jonathan Emmett
Harlequin filefish | Joydeep Sarkar
Coral hawkfish | Vardhan Patankar
Convict surgeonfish | Vardhan Patankar
Blue-spotted stingray | Vardhan Patankar
Nurse shark | Joydeep Sarkar
Tiger Shark | WCS-India
Green Sea Turtle | Nupur Kale
Olive Ridley hatchlings | Adhith Swaminathan
Hook-nosed sea snake | Chetan Rao
Hawksbill Turtle | Adhith Swaminathan
Humpback Whale | Zamin Syed
Finless porpoise | Illustrated by Gayatri Jawali
Dugong | Illustrated by Gayatri Jawali
Black headed seagull | Anant Pande
Crab plover | Al Badush
Masked gannet | Al Badush