Marine Life Emojis 🐳 🐋 🐬
Browse all 18 marine life emojis from the Animals & Nature category. Click any emoji to copy it to your clipboard instantly, or open its page for meanings, Unicode codepoints, shortcodes and skin-tone variants.
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What marine life emojis are used for
Ocean life splits into two jobs. The big animals — 🐳, 🐬, 🦈 — go on nature posts, aquarium trips and shark-week jokes, while 🦀, 🦞, 🦐 and 🦪 usually mean dinner rather than biology. 🦀 also carries the crab-rave sense of gleeful celebration at someone's misfortune. 🪸 coral joined in Emoji 14.0 and 🪼 jellyfish in 15.0.
Marine Life in the Unicode Standard
Unicode files 18 emojis under Marine Life, inside the Animals & Nature group. The set was built up over 9 Unicode releases, from Unicode 6.0 (2010) to Emoji 17.0 (2025), so the newer members are the ones most likely to show as a box on an older phone. The most recent additions are orca.