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The tube fan worm Sabellastarte spectabilis is also nicknamed the vacuum cleaner worm for its ability to remove organic particles and improve water quality, for which it is adored by aquarists.
In the wild, this worm previously lived only in the Indian Ocean and the Red Sea, but currently it is also found on the coasts of Africa, Mozambique and the Gulf of Mexico.
This large worm can reach 80 mm in length and 10–12 mm in width. It lives in a hard, leathery tube from which protrudes a gill crown of branched tentacles forming a train.
The cilia on the tentacles catch organic particles as they swim by and guide them along mucus-filled grooves towards the mouth. Tentacles are also used as gills for gas exchange
The pygmy seahorse Hippocampus bargibanti does not exceed 2 cm in length. It lives in the Central Indo-Pacific region exclusively on fan corals. There are two known color options for the skate: gray with red tubercles and yellow with orange tubercles.
Found in the waters of Australia (including the Great Barrier Reef), Indonesia, Japan, New Caledonia, Papua New Guinea, Philippines, Solomon Islands and Taiwan. Lives at depths from 5 to 40 meters.
In 1969, naturalist George Bargibant, living in New Caledonia, was collecting gorgonian corals for an aquarium and discovered that one of the branches was moving. It turned out to be a tiny seahorse. The new species received the Latin specific name bargibanti in honor of its discoverer
Nautilus Pompilius Nautilus pompilius - yes, yes, the same one! Unless he sings.
But this cephalopod can, by adjusting the amount of ammonia ions in the chambers of the shell, sink or rise - the principle that is used in modern submarines was invented by him hundreds of millions of years ago.
Most modern cephalopods lack shells and have elongated bodies with a small number of cephalic tentacles. At the same time, in the Paleozoic, hundreds of millions of years ago, ammonites and nautiloids flourished, with well-developed external shells and numerous tentacles.
The dominant ammonites in past geological epochs became completely extinct, but a small number of nautiloid species managed to survive and persist in the tropical regions of the Pacific and Indian Oceans. For this reason, nautilus, along with coelacanths, horseshoe crabs and some other species, are called “living fossils.”
Ancient nautiluses grew up to 3.5 m, but today's ones only grow up to 25 cm - but thanks for the fact that they survived!
Dancing with sharks🙈🦈
Who would have thought - but this is reality, now I believe in it! 🦈🏊♀️🏊🏆
😉 The fascinating world of Bigfin reef squid eggs
These eggs, filled with developing squid, display an incredible ballet of movement underwater. These elusive creatures live in the Indo-Pacific region.
An underwater explorer girl who conquers mysterious underwater caves is gaining popularity on TikTok!
She boldly penetrates narrow underwater tunnels to reveal to us the stunning beauty of paradises lost under water👌💎⚠️🌍✨
😊Moorish Idol 🐠
An idol is an idol - it must be admired from afar, it cannot be tamed. It is too unpredictable and incomprehensible to humans.
🤐Sponge-harp
A predatory sponge discovered at a depth of 3-3.5 km by marine biologists from the California Monterey Bay Research Institute in 2012.
The body of the lyre sponge is attached to the ground with the help of rhizoids and has from two to six “blades” emanating from the center, which are horizontal branches on which vertical branches are attached.
☺️ Strombus
This Strombus is also called the Florida War Shell, because in case of danger it swings its leg, which has a claw, like a fencer with a sword.
Have you ever seen a ball of stingrays? There you go, now you've seen it
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💙 The incredible power of the ocean
Did you know that in the oceans at great depths sometimes underwater waves a hundred meters high occur, but they are not noticeable on the surface?
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😍Pisces the architect 👷♂️
The architect fish is a small marine fish of the pufferfish family. This species was discovered quite recently, in 2014.
The length of the male architect fish is up to 12 centimeters, while the diameter of the nest he builds can reach 2 meters.
Bladderwort Utricularia is an aquatic insectivorous plant, devoid of roots and bearing trapping vesicles. Each bubble is equipped with a hole, closed by a valve that opens inward, as a result of which small aquatic animals can freely penetrate into the bubble, but cannot swim back out. When they die, they serve as food for the plant.
In 2011, researchers from France and Germany recognized bladderwort as the fastest predatory plant in the world: prey is drawn into a trap in less than a millisecond.
Pemphigus is distributed throughout the world, being absent only in Antarctica and a number of oceanic islands.
The plant overwinters in the form of spherical buds. In favorable conditions at home, it can stop feeding on living organisms and begin to develop a root system, in what!
The purple tremoctopus, also known as the soaring octopus Tremoctopus violaceus, is a fascinating sight! It is also called a carpet octopus or a blanket octopus - depending on what exactly the thin multi-colored membrane between the outstretched tentacles reminds the observer.
In this way, the octopus tries to appear larger and scares away predators. Only female carpet octopuses have a beautiful outfit; males do not need it - after all, they do not grow more than three centimeters, but females reach a meter in length, and together with the bedspread - two meters.
Having no veil and impressive size, male violet tremoctopus are insensitive to the venom of one of the most dangerous jellyfish, the Portuguese man-of-war. That is why they, holding with suction cups, carry with them pieces of the burning tentacles of poisonous jellyfish and, if necessary, fearlessly attack the enemy with them, like a sword. The venom of jellyfish is very strong, it kills fish in seconds!
Here you can see two female Tremoctopus violaceus taken by a diver in the Philippine Islands area
The leafy sea dragon is a type of charismatic sea creature belonging to the genus Phycodurus.
Externally, the leafy sea dragon resembles a dragon: it has a curved body and thin processes on which flat fins grow.
It needs these fins to move and camouflage itself with its environment.
The dragon moves only with the help of two of them: the chest and the back. But thanks to its fins, it can reach speeds of up to 150 m/h.
Maori wrasse or known as Napoleon fish🐟🐡🐠
This underwater inhabitant can reach impressive sizes - length up to two meters and weight up to 200 kg. Its appearance attracts attention: the colors resemble the luxurious patterns of Iranian porcelain.🧊💎😊
Lives in the waters of the Indian and Pacific oceans.
🌊 One of the most ancient creatures of our planet, a sea creature known as the sunfish, continues to amaze scientists, having inhabited the World Ocean for over 100 million years.🐡🌞🐟🦈🌐
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The ocean is a whole universe, different from ours 🌊💦
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😃Finval 🐋
A species of whale from the minke whale family. It is a close relative of the blue whale and the second largest animal on the planet. Fin whales and blue whales are so closely related that sometimes even hybrids between these species are found.
😯Megadicopy
A truly mysterious creature that is unlike any other. Megalodicopia has a huge mouth that allows it to swallow small crustaceans and other creatures from the ocean.
This animal can be considered one of the practically immortal creatures of our planet, since when damaged, a whole individual grows from a tiny particle of its body.
😯Mexican dwarf 🦞
A freshwater crayfish found only in Lake Patzcuaro in Mexico. The female grows up to 4-5 centimeters, males - a little less - 3-4 centimeters, males also have larger claws. The orange color of the aquarium crayfish is the result of selection work; in nature, the color of this crayfish is not orange, but dirty yellow or brown. Life expectancy is 1.5-2 years.
😆Beluga
This is the largest fish that can be found in the waters of our planet. According to official data, its length can reach 4.5 meters and weigh up to 1,500 kilograms.
Did you know these facts about beluga?
- Beluga can live more than 100 years, so it is considered one of the longest-living fish in the world.
- Parents do not care about their offspring. Moreover, they do not mind feasting on their relatives.
- The beluga, like the shark, has no bones, and its skeleton consists of cartilage, which becomes harder and stronger over the years.
😛 Scallop
Scallops have interesting biological features that allow them to survive in unpleasant conditions.
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