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Long Island Sound is a large marine estuary in the Northeastern United States. It forms the maritime border between New York's Long Island and Connecticut. It is diverse and serves as a breeding ground to many different types of marine animal species; the following is a list of said species by scientific and/or common name. Marine mammals are excluded; see List of mammals of New York for the corresponding species.
This group includes filter feeders, omnivores, and predatory sea snails.
Most neogastropods are predatory sea snails.
These filter feeders are either mobile or permanently attached to a substrate.
These filter feeders are mostly burrowers.
All of the animals in this category are summer visitors, who migrate northwards from warmer waters in the south.
Mainly all the animals in this category are juveniles carried via the Gulf Stream To the sound and end up dying when the water temperature cools.