Ever ask yourself that question? When I’m spearfishing - I’ve honed recently honed my vocabulary down from “Big/Little/Small” + “fish/dolphin/ray/shark/starfish/snail”….to something more along the lines of “7 inch / 3 foot / 10cm” + “Ling Cod/Common Dolphin/Bat Ray/Black Tip Reef Shark” …etc
I’d like to hone it down even more - just for my own knowledge, and Zip Code Zoo seems like a good starting point.
It’s too bad there aren’t more animals listed in 93940 (my previous local dive zip code in Monterey), but there seem to be plenty of fish/plants/animals in the database.
“”"As of Saturday, March 22, 2008, this site is home to 3,238,767 web pages describing 1,313,091 plants, 1,539,073 animals, 13,132 Bacteria, 22,655 Chromista, 308,499 Fungi, and 17,462 Protozoa. Pages contain 256,403 photos taken by 1,363 photographers”"”