A common name quiz

In my last blog post, I championed the use of common names of organisms, some of which are vividly descriptive [1]. For fun, I've compiled a list of common names of marine organisms that illustrate their beauty and would love to know your favourites (I've limited the list to organisms of marine coasts to reduce the huge number of potential examples).

To make the post into a quiz, the group to which each organism belongs is given at the end (in the order of the list of common names) and the illustration above gives a clue to four of them. All are in English, but those who speak other languages may like to compile their own list of favourites.

Here's the list:

Brown-lined paper bubble

Burnt hotdog 

Crimson pufflet   

Dabberlocks  

Dead man's bootlaces

Flamingo tongue 

Hairy mushroom   

Immaculate damsel 

Landlady's wig 

Lond-spined sea scorpion 

Magnificent foxface  

Pepper dulse 

Prickly redfish 

Red rags 

Red-specked pimplet  

Sea gherkin  

Sea hedgehog  

Sea lemon   

Sea potato  

Spiny mudlark 

Topknot 

Trefoil muzzlet 

Warted corklet 

White-lipped castor bean 

Yellow Fiji leather 

[1] http://rwotton.blogspot.co.uk/2017/05/latin-binomials-and-beauty-of-common.html

snail

sea cucumber

sea anemone

brown seaweed

brown seaweed

snail

coral

fish

red seaweed

fish

fish

red seaweed

sea cucumber

red seaweed

sea anemone

sea cucumber

brown seaweed

sea slug

sea urchin

sea urchin

fish

sea anemone

sea anemone

snail

coral