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😳Himantura fai 🦈
Species of the genus Stingrays from the family Stingrays of the order Stingrays of the superorder Stingrays. They live in the tropical waters of the eastern Indian and western Pacific Oceans.
Interesting facts about stingrays:
- Stingrays pose a great danger to humans. Their poison can easily kill even a physically strong and healthy man.
- Some species of stingrays do not collect prey on the seabed, but actively hunt fish.
😦Predatory marine polychaete worm 🪱
It lives on the ocean floor, at a depth of 10-40 meters, in tropical waters. The length of an adult reaches 2-3 meters. It hunts fish passing by, quickly capturing them and dragging them to itself. A sea worm can go without food for about a year.
🤔Did you know these facts about starfish?
- The size of starfish ranges from 2-100 cm.
- Despite their funny appearance, these animals are predators. The victims of sea stars are mollusks, small fish and snails (see interesting facts about snails).
- On average, starfish live for about 20 years.
- Many species of starfish are cannibals.
- Many varieties of stars are capable of developing quite high speeds.
🙄Marine wonder of the world named Venus' Belt
Belt of Venus is a species of ctenophore from the tentacle class, classified in the monotypic genus Cestum. The largest species of ctenophores can reach a length of up to 2.5 m. Adult ctenophores have a transparent gelatinous, ribbon-shaped body, highly elongated in width and flattened laterally.
😊Water unicorns or narwhals 🦄
The narwhal is similar to the beluga whale not only in the size/shape of the body - both whales have no dorsal fin, identical pectoral fins and... calves (the beluga whale gives birth to dark blue offspring, which turn white as they grow older). An adult narwhal grows up to 4.5 m with a weight of 2–3 tons. Ketologists assure that this is not the limit - if you are lucky, you can get 6-meter specimens.
😑Carminodoris
A genus of sea slugs, nudibranch dorids, and marine gastropods without shells of the family Discodorididae. The genus Carminodoris was originally classified by Berg in 1891 in the subfamily Platydorididae, a subfamily of the family Dorididae.
✊ There is no more heroic act than saving a defenseless animal!
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😮💨Flatworms
Type of protostome invertebrate animals. Unites approximately 20 thousand species, while only about 1/4 of this number are free-living, the rest lead a parasitic lifestyle. Free-living flatworms are considered the most primitive representatives of bilaterally symmetrical animals.
😺Jinda Octopus 🐙
A species of octopus from the order Octopods. The jinda octopus is native to the swallow waters of southwest Australia and is caught by fishermen for food. Until its reclassification in 2021, it was thought to be conspecific with O. tetricus.
😯Linuche unguiculata
A cnidarian species native to the warm western Atlantic Ocean, including the Caribbean. It is a tiny jellyfish with a straight bell and a flat top. This jellyfish is the most common cause of seaweed eruption, a reaction caused by the injection of young jellyfish nematocysts into human skin
😯Indian glass catfish
A peaceful schooling fish with a very unusual appearance. Fits harmoniously into the interior of a community aquarium. It lives in the lower and middle layers of water.
😮Whitetip gray shark 🦈
A large species of gray shark that inhabits the tropical waters of the Indian, Pacific, and possibly the Atlantic Ocean. Often found around islands and coral reefs at depths of up to 800 m. Resembles a large dark gray shark, but is easily distinguished from it by its clearly visible fin edging. Maximum length - 3 m.
😕Papilloculiceps longiceps
The tentacled flathead, also known as the Indian Ocean crocodile fish, Madagascar flathead or longheaded flathead, is a species of marine ray-finned fish belonging to the flathead family Platycephalidae. This species is native to the western Indian Ocean, including the Red Sea and the Mediterranean Sea, having invaded as a Lesseps migrant through the Suez Canal.
😀Big barracuda
A representative of marine inhabitants, belonging to the class Ray-finned fish, order Mackerelidae, genus Barracuda. This fish is not rare, poisonous and dangerous to humans. Externally, the large barracuda is not much different from other fish, having only one important feature - a protruding lower jaw, which gives it an aggressive appearance.
🤯Sperm whale 🐋
Marine mammal, the only modern representative of the sperm whale family, related to dwarf sperm whales. It is the largest of the toothed whales. Adult males reach an average length of 18-20 m and a weight of about 40 tons, while females reach 11 m and 15 tons, respectively.
Interesting fact: The sperm whale searches for prey using ultrasonic echolocation, in which the spermaceti sac, used as an acoustic lens, plays an important role. The spermaceti organ also helps provide the whale with the required level of buoyancy when diving.
😍Apogon aureus
It is a small marine fish, 10 to 14.5 centimeters long, found in the Red Sea and tropical Indo-Pacific region from East Africa to the Izu Islands south of Japan, New Guinea, Australia and New Caledonia
😯Jellyfish moon
This is a translucent species of jellyfish that lives in the World Ocean. The species grows from 20 to 30 centimeters in diameter. They are distinguished by exquisite colors. The moon jellyfish uses its tentacles to hunt predatory prey, primarily plankton and other small creatures. This species only lives for a few months, most likely no more than six.
Ray - finned fish 🐀
The most ancient representatives among the fish. Early finds of these fish are more than 40 million years old – it was a predatory large fish of the Silurian period. Most of the fish preferred cold waters, living in Russia, Sweden, and Estonia.
🧐Sea turtles 🐢
They have a compass in their head.
Turtles are sensitive to the Earth's magnetic field because they have built-in GPS thanks to special receptors located in their brains. They can determine their exact location in relation to the Earth's magnetic field, hence the ability to find favorable feeding sites and return back to their original nesting sites (home) to lay eggs in the exact location where they were hatched. This special feature allows turtles to migrate thousands of miles and still find their nesting sites half a century later. This is a mystery that science has yet to fully understand.
😯Saw-fingered stingrays
A family of stingrays from the order Sawtooth. The most noticeable feature is the long flat outgrowth of the snout, framed on the sides by teeth of the same size.
These outgrowths are located in one row on each side and give the snout a saw-like appearance. The "saw" is about a quarter of the body length of saw-tailed rays.
Sea cucumber - Synapta - one of the most incomprehensible creatures
It can be up to 5 m long with a maximum diameter of only 5 cm... It lives on coral reefs and differs from other holothurians in its fast movements (although this is not visible in the video😁).
😄Frog fish yawns
This species was first discovered 20 years ago, but due to the fact that it was incorrectly classified, it was conveniently forgotten. And so, this recent discovery forced scientists, in particular zoologists - David Hall, Rachel Arnold and Ted Pietsch - to remember this fish again. They gave it the name Histiophryne psychedelica or, more simply, psychedelic frogfish.
🥰Butterfly tweezers yellow
The name of the fish speaks for itself: with its long tweezer nose, it finds its prey in the crevices of stones and between corals. The color of the fish is strictly divided. The body is yellow, the upper part of the head is dark brown or black, and the lower part of the head is white-gray. The tail is almost transparent, and under it on the anal fin there is a black spot of irregular shape.
🧐Meet the sea sheep 🐑
It is actually a slug and is usually 2-4mm in size. And the most amazing thing is that these slugs are capable of photosynthesis!
🙂Porcupine fish 🐡
The entire body of the Diodon Porcupine is covered with light gray spines and lacks pelvic fins. To move in seawater, the urchin fish uses pectoral fins, creating its own unique swimming style.
😍Dolphin Risso 🐬
The only species of dolphins in the genus Grampus. It is commonly known as the monk dolphin among Taiwanese fishermen. Some of the more closely related species to these dolphins include: pilot whales, pygmy killer whales, melon-headed whales, and false killer whales.
😄Sea lions 🦭
A traditionally distinguished subfamily of eared seals. Molecular genetic evidence suggests that some sea lions are more closely related to fur seals than to other sea lions, making both subfamilies paraphyletic groups.
Interesting facts about sea lions:
- The average swimming speed of a sea lion is about 15-17 km/h, but if necessary, they can reach speeds of up to 40 km/h in the water. On land, these animals are, of course, much more clumsy.
- The largest sea lions live in the northern seas. They reach a length of three meters and a weight of one ton.
😮Chrysaora colorata
A species of jellyfish found primarily off the coast of California from Bodega Bay to San Diego. The bell of a jellyfish reaches a diameter, usually with a radial stripe pattern.
The tentacles vary depending on the age of the individual, usually consisting of eight outer long dark arms and four central frilled mouth arms. They are studied closely by scientists because not much is known about their eating habits.
🙂Sweetlip
This is a ray-finned marine fish of the order Perciformes, which is found on coastal reefs in the western Pacific Ocean. Feeds on bottom invertebrates.
The sweetlip has a massive head with a small mouth and large eyes. Fish meat is tasty, lean, suitable for preparing first and second courses. The fish is also called the sea grunt.