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Any aquatic invertebrate could be described that way. Perhaps the term "marine invertebrate" is what you are looking for.

Invertebrate sea life includes the following phyla:

  • Acoela;
  • Annelida, (polychaetes and sea leeches);
  • Brachiopoda;
  • Bryozoa, also known as moss animals or sea mats;
  • Chaetognatha;
  • Cephalochordata;
  • Cnidaria, such as jellyfish, sea anemones, and corals;
  • Crustacea, including lobsters, crabs, shrimp, crayfish, barnacles, hermit crabs, mantis shrimps, and copepods;
  • Ctenophora, also known as comb jellies;
  • Echinodermata, including sea stars, brittle stars, sea urchins, sand dollars, sea cucumbers, crinoids, and sea daisies;
  • Echiura;
  • Gnathostomulids;
  • Gastrotricha;
  • Hemichordata;
  • Kamptozoa;
  • Kinorhyncha;
  • Loricifera;
  • Merostomata; also know known as horseshoe crabs;
  • Mollusca, including shellfish, squid, octopus, whelks, Nautilus, cuttlefish, nudibranchs, scallops, sea snails, Aplacophora, Caudofoveata, Monoplacophora, Polyplacophora, and Scaphopoda;
  • Myzostomida;
  • Nemertinea (ribbon worms);
  • Orthonectida;
  • Phoronida;
  • Placozoa;
  • Porifera (sponges);
  • Priapulida;
  • Pycnogonida (sea spiders);
  • Sipunculida;
  • Tunicata, also known as sea squirts;
  • Some flatworms of the classes Turbellaria and Monogenea;
  • Xenoturbella;
  • Xiphosura.

I notice that this was originally posted in "aquatic mammals". All mammals are vertebrates so none of the aquatic mammals would lack a backbone.

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Any aquatic invertebrate could be described that way. Perhaps the term "marine invertebrate" is what you are looking for.

Invertebrate sea life includes the following phyla:

  • Acoela;
  • Annelida, (polychaetes and sea leeches);
  • Brachiopoda;
  • Bryozoa, also known as moss animals or sea mats;
  • Chaetognatha;
  • Cephalochordata;
  • Cnidaria, such as jellyfish, sea anemones, and corals;
  • Crustacea, including lobsters, crabs, shrimp, crayfish, barnacles, hermit crabs, mantis shrimps, and copepods;
  • Ctenophora, also known as comb jellies;
  • Echinodermata, including sea stars, brittle stars, sea urchins, sand dollars, sea cucumbers, crinoids, and sea daisies;
  • Echiura;
  • Gnathostomulids;
  • Gastrotricha;
  • Hemichordata;
  • Kamptozoa;
  • Kinorhyncha;
  • Loricifera;
  • Merostomata; also know known as horseshoe crabs;
  • Mollusca, including shellfish, squid, octopus, whelks, Nautilus, cuttlefish, nudibranchs, scallops, sea snails, Aplacophora, Caudofoveata, Monoplacophora, Polyplacophora, and Scaphopoda;
  • Myzostomida;
  • Nemertinea (ribbon worms);
  • Orthonectida;
  • Phoronida;
  • Placozoa;
  • Porifera (sponges);
  • Priapulida;
  • Pycnogonida (sea spiders);
  • Sipunculida;
  • Tunicata, also known as sea squirts;
  • Some flatworms of the classes Turbellaria and Monogenea;
  • Xenoturbella;
  • Xiphosura.

I notice that this was originally posted in "aquatic mammals". All mammals are vertebrates so none of the aquatic mammals would lack a backbone.

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