List Of New Sea Creatures In Animal Crossing: New Horizons

The biggest addition to part one of Animal Crossing: New Horizons' summer update is the ability to swim and dive in the ocean around your island, which means new creatures to catch. In fact, wave one of the summer update added an entirely new category in your Critterpedia, titled "Sea Creatures," and Blathers is accepting donations of new finds at the museum as well. There are 40 total new sea creatures to catch.

Here we'll go over every new type of sea creature you can find while diving. If you don't know how to dive yet, check out our guide on how to swim in Animal Crossing for info on where to get a wet suit and how to get into the water for the first time.

How To Find Sea Creatures In Animal Crossing

Sea creatures can only be found while diving underwater in the ocean. You'll know you're near one when you see a column of bubbles floating to the surface, or when you're already underwater and spot a dark shadow beneath the waves. Just dive under and swim over to the shadow to automatically collect the creature. Sometimes the shadow might be moving, so you will have to follow or chase it.

The bubble column appears differently depending on the creature, similar to the way fish shadow sizes differ. Their underwater shadow sizes also differ, as well as their swimming pattern and speed.

What To Do With Pearls And Scallops

While diving for sea creatures, you might come across pearls, which are a rare crafting material. Scallops can also be traded in for mermaid-themed clothing and DIY recipes if you talk to Pascal, the red sea otter who made his first New Horizons appearance with the July 3 summer update. Pascal has a chance of appearing when you catch a scallop and will offer a trade. Of course, don't forget to donate a scallop to the museum at some point too, since they still count as sea creatures. Pearls should definitely be saved up--like cherry blossom petals, they are an important crafting item and required to craft recipes in the new mermaid set.

Every Sea Creature In Animal Crossing: New Horizons

Below you'll find every sea creature in Animal Crossing: New Horizons, with separate columns dedicated to their Northern and Southern hemisphere availability, by month. We will continue to update as we verify information. Shadow sizes and swimming pattern information will be coming soon as well. For now, this data is based off of a combination of our own findings and the Animal Crossing Fandom wiki.

Northern Hemisphere (N) / Southern Hemisphere (S)

Sea Creature	Months (N)	Months (S)	Time	Price
Abalone	June - Jan	Dec - July	4 PM - 9 AM	2,000
Acorn barnacle	All year	All year	All day	600
Chambered nautilus	Mar - June Sept - Nov	Mar - May Sept - Dec	4 PM - 9 AM	1,440
Dungeness crab	Nov - May	May - Nov	All day	1,900
Firefly squid	Mar - June	Sept - Dec	9 PM - 4 AM	1,400
Flatworm	Aug - Sept	Feb - Mar	4 PM - 9 AM	700
Gazami crab	June - Nov	Dec - May	All day	2,200
Giant isopod	July - Oct	Jan - Apr	9 AM - 4 PM 9 PM - 4 AM	12,000
Gigas giant clam	May - Sept	Nov - Mar	All day	15,000
Horseshoe crab	July - Sept	Jan - Mar	9 PM - 4 AM	2,500
Lobster	Apr - June Dec - Jan	Jun - July Oct - Dec	All day	4,500
Mantis shrimp	All year	All year	4 PM - 9 AM	2,500
Moon jellyfish	July - Sept	Jan - Mar	All day	600
Mussel	June - Dec	Dec - June	All day	1,500
Octopus	All year	All year	All day	1,200
Oyster	Sept - Feb	Mar - Aug	All day	2,000
Pearl oyster	All year	All year	All day	2,800
Red king crab	Nov - Mar	May - Sept	All day	8,000
Scallop	All year	All year	All day	1,200
Sea anemone	All year	All year	All day	500
Sea cucumber	Nov - Apr	May - Oct	All day	500
Sea grapes	June - Sept	Dec - Mar	All day	900
Sea pig	Nov - Feb	May - Aug	4 PM - 9 AM	8,000
Sea pineapple	Apr - Aug	Oct - Feb	All day	1,500
Sea slug	All year	All year	All day	600
Sea star	All year	All year	All day	500
Sea urchin	May - Sept	Nov - Mar	All day	1,700
Seaweed	Oct - July	Apr - Jan	All day	600
Slate pencil urchin	May - Sept	Nov - Mar	4 PM - 9 AM	2,000
Snow crab	Apr - Nov	May - Oct	All day	6,000
Spider crab	Mar - Apr	Sept - Oct	All day	12,000
Spiny lobster	Oct - Dec	Apr - Jun	9 PM - 4 AM	5,000
Spotted garden eel	May - Oct	Nov - Apr	4 AM - 9 PM	1,100
Sweet shrimp	Sept - Feb	Mar - Aug	4 PM - 9 AM	1,400
Tiger prawn	June - Sept	Dec - Mar	4 PM - 9 AM	3,000
Turban shell	Mar - May Sept - Dec	Mar - June Sept - Nov	All day	800
Umbrella octopus	Mar - May Sept - Nov	Mar - May Sept - Nov	All day	6,000
Vampire squid	May - Aug	Nov - Feb	4 PM - 9 AM	10,000
Venus flower basket	Oct - Feb	Apr - Aug	All day	5,000
Whelk	All year	All year	All day	1,000

Who Buys Sea Creatures?

Besides trading scallops with Pascal or selling to Nook's Cranny, there's no dedicated NPC who buys sea creatures at a higher value the same way C.J. buys fish and Flick buys bugs. But there are some extra rare and valuable ones that will still sell for a fortune if you're lucky enough to catch them, which offers plenty of reason to dive for creatures besides filling up your Critterpedia and museum.

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