What type of animals live in salt marshes?

Salt marshes are home to many small mammals, small fishes, birds, insects, spiders and marine invertebrates. Marine invertebrates include crustaceans such as amphipods and isopods, sea anemones, shrimps, crabs, turtles, mollusks and snails.

1. What type of fish live in salt marshes?
2. What is found in a salt marsh?
3. What kinds of animals live in estuaries and salt marshes?

What type of fish live in salt marshes?

Salt marshes are a mosaic of snaking channels called tidal creeks that fill with seawater during high tides and drain during low tides. Fish species including flounder and mullet live most of their lives in marsh creeks.

What is found in a salt marsh?

Salt marshes are coastal wetlands that are flooded and drained by salt water brought in by the tides. They are marshy because the soil may be composed of deep mud and peat. Peat is made of decomposing plant matter that is often several feet thick. Peat is waterlogged, root-filled, and very spongy.

What kinds of animals live in estuaries and salt marshes?

Common animals include: shore and sea birds, fish, crabs, lobsters, clams, and other shellfish, marine worms, raccoons, opossums, skunks and lots of reptiles.