OGATT Invertebrates | The Department of Life Sciences

Portuguese Man O' War (Physalia physalis) - Photo by Mike G. Rutherford

The accounts are organized by common name for accessibility, including multiple entries under alternative names where useful. Common names may be found from scientific names in the taxonomic listing above. Endemic species (E) are those that are only found in Trinidad and Tobago. Introduced or invasive species (I) are those with breeding populations in the wild that are not native to Trinidad and Tobago. Accidental or occasional visitors (A) are species that may naturally occur as individuals in Trinidad and Tobago or its offshore waters but do not form breeding populations or regular migrations. Dangerously venomous species (V) and those which may cause severe stings (S) to humans are also indicated.

Arthropods (Insects, Crustaceans, Millipedes, Centipedes, etc.)

Alligator Bug	Amberwing, Slough	American Cockroach (I)	Ant, Army (S)	Ant, Cayenne
Ant, Electric (I, S)	Ant, Ghost (I)	Ant, Red Imported Fire (I, S)	Ant, Tropical Fire (I,S)	Apricot Sulphur Butterfly
Asian Tiger Mosquito (I)	Atlantic Ghost Crab	Ant, Leaf-cutting or Bachac	Barnacle, Caribbean	Batwing Coral Crab
Beetle, Harlequin	Beetle, Hercules	Beetle, Spider Long-horned	Bloodsucking Conenose	Blue Crab
Blue Crab, Lesser	Blue Land Crab	Bug, Giant Water	Bullseye Moth	Butterfly, Biscuit or White Peacock
Butterfly, Cambridge Blue or Giant Hairstreak	Butterfly, Cloudless Sulphur	Butterfly, Cramer's 88	Butterfly, Emperor	Butterfly, Ethilia Longwing
Butterfly, Flambeau	Butterfly, Ghost Yellow	Butterfly, Grey Cracker	Butterfly, Isabella's Longwing	Butterfly, Juliette
Butterfly, Mangrove Buckeye	Butterfly, Monarch	Butterfly, Morpho	Butterfly, Orange Mapwing	Butterfly, Owl
Butterfly, Pointed Sister	Butterfly, Postman	Butterfly, Queen	Butterfly, Scarlet Peacock	Butterfly, Red Postman
Butterfly, Six Continent or Mimic	Butterfly, Small Flambeau	Caribbean Spiny Lobster	Carmine Skimmer Dragonfly	Carolina Mantis
Centipede, Giant (S)	Changa	Cockroach, Giant Cave	Conehead Termite or Tree Termite	Crab, Caribbean Hermit
Crab, Freshwater	Crab, Giant Hermit	Crab, Atlantic Hairback Fiddler	Crab, Hairy or Mangrove	Crab, Mangrove Root
Crab, Mangrove Tree-climbing	Crab, Manicou	Crab, Mole or Sea Tattoo	Crab, Mudflat Fiddler	Crab, River
Crayfish, Stream or Shrimp	Crazy Ant, Longhorn (I)	Cricket, West Indian Mole	Dew-drop Spider	Donkey Eye Butterfly
Dwarf Scorpion (E)	Dwarf Tarantula, Trinidad or Valentine Tarantula	Frangipani Sphinx Moth	Giant Grasshopper	Hawkmoth, Pink-spotted
Hibiscus Mealybug (I)	Jack Spaniard (S)	Lobster, Spotted Spiny	Maribone (S)	Millipede, Yellow-banded or Bumblebee
Mite, Red Palm (I)	Mosquito, Yellow Fever (I)	Orb Weaver, Golden	Orb Weaver, Seven-sided	Pink-toed Tarantula or Tree Spider
Red-banded Coral Shrimp	Sand Snapping Shrimp	Scorpion, Slender-tailed (E, S)	Scorpion, Trinidad Thick-tailed (V)	Silver Argiope Spider
Silver Spotted Flambeau or Gulf Fritillary	Spider, Spitting	Stick Insect, Trinidad (E)	Tarantula, Trinidad Chevron (E)	Trinidad Twig (E)
Wasp, Yellow Paper (S)

Cnidaria (Corals, Anemeones, Jellyfish, etc.)

Anemone, Elegant	Anemone, Giant Caribbean Sea or Pink or Purple-tipped	Anemone, Red Beaded	Bipinnate Sea Plume	Black Sea Rod
Boulder Brain Coral	Boulder Star Coral or Lobed Star Coral	Branching Fire Coral (S)	Coral, Elkhorn	Coral, Elliptical Star
Coral, Finger	Coral, Flower	Coral, Golfball	Coral, Great Star	Coral, Grooved Brain
Coral, Lettuce	Coral, Massive Starlet	Coral, Maze	Coral, Mountainous Star	Coral, Mustard Hill
Coral, Orange Cup (I)	Coral, Pillar	Coral, Pineapple	Coral, Rose	Coral, Staghorn
Coral, Sun (I)	Coral, Tube	Jellyfish, Moon	Jellyfish, Upside-down	Portuguese Man o' War (S)
Purple Sea Fan	Sea Fan, Venus or West Indian	White Encrusting Zoanthid

Echinoderms (Sea Urchins, Sea Cucumbers, Sea Stars, etc.)

Donkey Dung Sea Cucumber	Reef Urchin	Sea Cucumber, West Indian	Sea Egg, West Indian	Sea Star, West Indian or Red Cushion Sea Star
Sea Urchin, Long-spined Black	Sea Urchin, Rock-boring	Sea Urchin, Variegated

Porifera (Sponges)

Black-ball Sponge

Branching Vase Sponge

Caribbean Barrel Sponge

Sponge, Yellow Tube

Molluscs (Snails, Bivalves, Squid, etc.)

African Snail, Giant (I)	Ark Clam, Turkey Wing	Asian Green Mussel (I)	Beaded Periwinkle	Caribbean Reef Octopus
Caribbean Reef Squid	Conch, Pale	Conch, Queen	Flame Scallop	Freshwater or Black Conch
Giant Ramshorn Snail	Mangrove Periwinkle	Orchid Snail (I)	Oyster, Atlantic Winged	Oyster, Flat Tree
Ram's Horn Squid	Red-rimmed Melania (I)	Squid, Vampire	Topshell, West Indian

Other Invertebrates (Annelids, Onychophorans, etc.)

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Last updated 6 July 2018