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schizochroal · 5 months

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These are some of my favorite, less well known, non-malacostracan crustaceans!

Mystacocarids

They are usually placed in a group with Ostracods, that is basal to all other extant crustaceans, meaning crabs, barnacles, and bees are all more closely related to each other than they are too Mystacocarids. They live in between grains of sand on beaches in many parts of the world. They get up to 1 millimeter long. I like how they kinda look like feather dusters, or like stretched out lice with too many legs.

Cephalocarids or Horseshoe shrimp

These guys were only discovered in the 1950s century and since then have been grouped with the remipedes, although recently they typically are instead placed in their own group! They are benthic organisms that live in all kinds of sediment from the shore to the deep sea, and typically eat detritus. They are hermaphroditic, have no eyes , and get up to 4 mm long! I think they look a lot like some primitive, Cambrian era arthropods, and despite being small and probably not likely to fossilize, their fossil record extends back to Ordovician, so the appellation of them being "Cambrian survivors" may very well be accurate.

Notostracans or Tadpole Shrimp

Consisting of the genera Triops and Lepidurus, this group of animals is most closely related to water fleas and clam shrimp , and more distantly to fairy shrimp (such as the famous sea monkey brine shrimp). Like brine shrimp, Triops are a common pet. Both genera are known to have populations in temporary pools of water, and have long lasting eggs that can survive desiccation and years without water before hatching again when the water returns. They also can live in shallow lakes, certain wetlands, and other more permanent ponds, and depending on species live in fresh, brackish or even salt lakes, but don't live in marine environments. They are omnivores and will basically eat anything, including smaller members of their own species. For a relatively small group of crustaceans, they have a wide variety of reproductive strategies, with some populations having sexually reproducing males and females, some having exclusively self fertilizing females, others being primarily hermaphroditic, and still others being different mixes of these. This variation is present even in different populations of the same species. They can get up to about 7 cm long , making them much larger than the previously mentioned crustaceans, but not big enough! They are so cute I wish they were big enough I could give them hugs. I think they should be the size of cats .

Remipedes

Remipedes are really special, the first living remipedes were only discovered in the late 1970s, and weren't properly described until 1981, meaning our knowledge of living remipedes is only as old as goth music. To be honest their lifestyle is pretty goth too, they exclusively live in caves and aquifers, typically in subtropical , coastal regions. As befitting creatures of the dark, they have no eyes or pigmentation, and instead have an advanced sense of smell. While they are also capable of filter feeding, they have venomous fangs that they use to predate on smaller organisms, and indeed are the only venomous crustaceans (outside of insects). Unlike the predatory adults, remipede larva don't seem to eat at all, and it's speculated that they may instead derive nutrition from symbiotic bacteria. Remipedes have 32 segments, and being hermaphroditic, have female and male openings on different segments of their bodies (7 and 14, respectively) . Despite their seemingly primitive bodies and strange lifestyle, remipedes have actually been discovered to be the group of crustaceans that are closest to the Hexapods, including the insects! They get up 4 cm long but I wish they were as long as eels.

I also kinda wanted to write about clam shrimp here but their phylogeny is a bit of a mess right now and I'm not even sure what qualifies as a clam shrimp anymore. They basically look like little clam shells with a crustacean swimming around in them.

#crustaceans #remipedes #triops #informational

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normal-newt · 9 months

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Limestone caves are super cool? Like rain is just so strong it can dissolve the stone? And the water slowly drips it into new shapes? And little secret friends like remipedes and cave snails in them? Secret cave crayfish? Amazing.

#bugs #caves #troglobites #remipedes #limestone #still stunned by all of these

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crevicedwelling · 8 months

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is shrimps bugs?

in crevice reckoning, yes. everything without bones and many things with bones are bugs to me.

taxonomically though, bugs are shrimps.

although they aren’t very close to the “true”decapod shrimps of rice-frying fame, insects are closely related to fairy shrimp, tadpole shrimp, and clam shrimp of the Branchiopoda, though their closest relatives are usually taken to be the remipedes (weird little long guys that live in deep water or caves, no relation to centipedes but they too are venomous!)

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gallusrostromegalus · 11 months

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I'd been meaning to ask about if Hanatarou had any role in AEIWAM, because I'm an incurable minor character lover and still apparently very fond of him even though it's been upwards of a decade since my Bleach fixation. And then I see you mentioned him in a post and I am activated! I'd love to hear more about him in AEIWAM if you want to share 👀

One afternoon, Retsu Unohana noticed a strange ant crossing her desk.

It was a slow afternoon- the calm before the return of the 11th division from New Recruit Boot Camp and the annual 4th division game of "Match the limbs!" began.

She sat up and leaned in to examine the ant- the 4th division is kept PRISTINE by no small dint of effort and interlopers are Most Unwelcome. This foreign contaminant was rather puzzling, however. It appeared to be a Highly Carnivorous Izumo Island Acid-Spitting Ant, somewhat famous for not living anywhere but Izumo Island.

"What are you doing in my office?" She interrogated the Ant. She may have been engaged in some light chemical alteration to deal with the frustration of having her favorite stress-reliever out of town while he was running New Recruit Boot Camp.

The ant, being an ant, failed to respond, save to wave it's little antennae and continuing on it's search for fleshmeats to bring back to the colony.

...Return to the colony... Retsu considered, and a flash of inspiration struck. Very carefully, she extracted a small slice of hot dog from the commisary's wednesday lunch of "Beanie Weenies" and places it in the ant's path. As she had hoped, the ant located the hot dog piece by the subtle sensory method of walking into it face-first, examined it to determine it's acceptability as a food source, and then hefted the hot dog slice over it's head, and made an about-face, returning from whence it came.

Grabbing a laser pointer, Retsu followed.

Seeing the captain slowly walking up the hall, hunched over and watching something with intent was hardly the strangest thing to happen in the fourth, and being told "Move aside, I'm tracking a problem" while she drew a laser-light circle around the insect in question was downright understandable, and so she was left to stalk in peace.

Eventually, the ant disappeared under the door of a Broom closet. It was a Perfectly Ordinary Broom closet, just off the Neonatal wing, and utterly unremarkable, save for the handwritten sign on the door:

"DANGER! VENOMOUS ANIMALS! KEEP OUT!!"

The sign was illustrated with remarkably good drawings of snakes, spiders and wasps.

"Hm." Said Restu, considering the closet's proximity to the Seireitei's tiniest and most helpless infants. "Not Ideal."

Carefully, she tried the door.

It was locked, at least.

Slightly less carefully, she rattled the knob until the ancient pin-tumbler inside rattled open, and then she more carefully opened the door.

When a cobra failed to leap out and bite her in the face, she reached in and turned on the light.

Inside was a fascinating little gem of zoology. Easily Twenty terrariums had been crammed into the tiny closet, filled with meticulously cared-for venomous animals of every shape, size and persuasion. Near the door were the Izumo Island Acid-Spitting Ants, gleefully examining and disassembling the Hot dog slice, whose terrarium lid seemed to have been bumped askew by the door at some point. After watching another sentry return, she pushed the lid closed with a snap, before turning her attention to the rest of the Menagerie of Pain.

Whoever had assembled the collection had organized them by care needs- the room had a Hot and Cold side each, as well as Dark and Bright sides, and the animals that needed dry enclosures were at the top, getting progressively damper until the aquariums at the bottom. And so many splendid creatures! Klein-Bottle-Web Spiders! Barking Scorpions!

"...Is that a Sea-Cave Remipede? I didn't know those could be kept in captivity!" Retsu blinked in surprise. Minazuki emerged, fluttering as she peered into the aquariums- and down here-! Orange-cubed octopi! and good grief are those Horned Sea Snails? Brave man whoever keeps these- they have to be hand-fed and if the snail decides to dart his finger instead of the feeder fish he's a goner.

"Never mind that, he's got half the Elapid family up here-" Retsu said, standing on her toes before getting on top of the folding chair in the middle of the room. "Look at that! Morel Snakes, Farter's Sea snake, a Queen Cobra- and this tank's got Vipers- good grief where did he even GET a Lance-de-Fer?"

Look at these things, the look like little plastic toys, or candies! Minazuki chortled as the tank of brightly colored frogs. The devil is this? A ...Pitohui?

The Apparently-Venomous bird whistled at her, intrigued but not alarmed. Something in The Big Tank at the back of the closet splashed, and both Doctor and Zanpaktou turned their attention to it

"A turtle?" Retsu pondered, for the size and shape of the amphibious enclosure, but once her eyes adjusted to the tanks dim light, she and Minazuki stood there for several silent minutes, watching the strange creature paddle about, digging it's beak into the mud at the bottom of it's tank for worms, and surfacing to breathe and rake the long claws of it's webbed feet through its... fur.

..It looks fake. Minazuki finally said, bewildered. I'm watching it move and eat and swim and it looks fake, like some badly taxidermied curio meant to swindle tourists.

"-Not some strange spirit made flesh then?" Retsu said, squinting at the label in the corner of the tank. "Ornithorhynchus paradoxus- it sure is!" She laughed.

Well? What should we do about this? Minazuki waved a flipper to indicate the entire zoo. I'm not sure if we should promote their keeper for his dedication to the study of venom, or if we should fire him for putting his lab next to the neonatal ward.

"Let's see what he has to say for himself." Decided Retsu, moving the folding chair to the middle of the room, re-locking the door, turning the light off, and sitting down.

...You always were one for Dramatics. Sighed Minazuki, settling on the floor beside her and waiting, eye wide in gleeful anticipation

She did not have to wait long before there was the sound of someone running up the stairs, panting, and a carabiner of keys jingling, the door being unlocked and a small, moderately disheveled and scatterbrained-looking young man stepped in, apologizing for being late he couldn't find his boss anywhere-

"-so I had to submit the paperwork for all the research I've been doing with you guys to the drop-box which is hidden on the 7th floor next to urology for some reason but I'm here now and I've got nice juicy crickets and mice for-"

He flicked on the light to find his aforementioned boss sitting in a folding chair, waiting for him like some kind of fucked up ghost.

"-UNOHANA-TAICHO!?"

She regarded his appropriately terrified visage for a moment. "...Yamada, right?"

The young man nodded mutely, still frozen like a better-taxidermied-than-whatever-the-thing-behind-her-was rabbit. "Y- Yes Ma'am. Um. Captain. I'm Hanataro Yamada. Sir."

"...I'll take a cricket, but after you explain what the hell this is." She decided.

"Oh!" he yelped, startled to still be alive. "Well- uh- I actually just submitted the paperwork for the research permissions for this upstairs but the thing is, see, venom is, well, are- they're all terribly biologically active substances, and I was reading your research paper you submitted for your seated officer's proposal about toxic plants and the medicines that could be derived from them because so many medicines are really just poisons, dosed between "fatal to the problem" and "fatal to the patient", and um- well I thought, that's got to be doubly true of venomous animals because venom is meant to cause profound chemical reactions in other animals, so I figured if I could extract, analyze and isolate specific compounds, that there's a lot of new potential drugs and cures lurking in these creature like, um- oh, uh, the Vipers up there kill their prey primarily through the use of fast-acting anticoagulants, which have potential applications in heart disease cures, but the Klein-Bottle-Web spiders work with fast-acting coagulants, produced in the same glands as their silk, so I was hoping to develop bandages that can stop bleeding on a chemical level as well. And- oh! these Sea-cave Remipedes can cause intense hallucinations, which is not ideal when you're scuba-diving in a cave to find them but in smaller doses, it looks like the compounds they produce act as anti-psychotics, and um- oh yeah, the little butter frogs- the yellow ones- yeah, the venom they excrete has got a ton of really interesting anti-inflammatory properties and the bird up there excretes a mild neuroinhibitor and the Platypus- It's an extremely primitive mammal, even moreso than marsupials, and the males- that one is Billy, for Billabong- um, bad pun, don't worry about it-um, it's got these venomous spurs on his hind legs that produce a venom that is a Neuro-enhancer, of all things, as well as a host of anti-microbial compounds that STING if he gets a kick in, but apparently they really only produce them during mating season so I may have to get him a sheila- that's what the guide said the females were called- and. Um. Yeah. That's. Well, I was hoping to get a research grant so I could keep them somewhere a little more secure. and. not right next to the neonatal ward." he sputtered.

Retsu watched him blankly for a second, then held out her hand, expectant.

Yamada looked down at her hand, confused, then, remembering their earlier conversation, cautiously opened up the plastic tub he was clutching and delicately placed a single cricket in her open palm.

Without hesitation, she popped it in her mouth, the crunching audible in the awkward silence of the room as she made up her mind.

"Seventh-Seat Maomao is retiring later this year, and I will need a new Toxicologist." She declared. "If you've been hand-feeding the horned snails, you're brave enough for the job, and if you've figured out a different method, you're smart enough for it. I want all of this packed up and in level 4 Secure onditions by morning, Doctor Yamada." she nodded.

"Th- thank you taicho!" he yelped, Billy The Platypus splashing excitedly. "I look forward to your work, Hanataro." She smiled, and the boy very nearly fainted.

#aeiwam #an elephant is warm and mushy #Bleach #bleach fanfiction #Retsu Unohana #yamada hanataro

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tribbetherium · 1 year

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Are there still any big/weird shrish present? Alternatively, have they come upon any body plans like the remipedes of Earth?

While shrish dominated uncontested in the seas in the Rodentocene, the coming of various competing marine clades in the form of the skwoids, pescopods, and various aquatic hamster lineages has pushed them away from their more divergent roles. Gone are the giant predatory shrarks, survived only by small mesopredator kin and abyssal species such as the galvaprawns. Yet the shrish are still holding on to a wide array of niches as the Middle Temperocene comes about: one such clade are the shreels: elongated, centipede-like shrish that thrive on reefs, hiding in nooks and crannies to forage for food or ambush small prey seeking refuge in the crevices. Their mouthparts, adapted for piercing and cutting soft food, but not breaking through tough shells, have made the predatory shreels focus primarily on pescopods rather than other exoskeletal crustaceans, lunnging from small openings and grabbing prey with their grabbing retractable pincers modified from their first pair of limbs when their antennae detect movement out of the burrow.

To defend themselves, some pescopods have developed powerful toxins that can kill an attacker that bites or consumes them. This may not necessarily protect an individual, but it protects a species as a whole as other predators quickly associate their warning coloration as something dangerous to be avoided. Dotted waspslugs (Vespicochleus xanthonelanus) are one of the most toxic species of all: not only lethal to small predators like shrish and skwoids but even also to bigger creatures such as bayvers and cricetaceans that try to consume them.

Yet the waspslugs have met their match in the draconic shrempipede (Ophidocaris draconispinus): a shreel that hides among groves of branching coral that give it stealth and maneuverability while stalking prey. Not only is the shrempipede immune to the lethal toxins of the waspslug: it also safely absorbs them and sequesters them in its own tissues, making it itself, the likes of which are both predator and prey in the many-runged food chain of the ocean ecosystem, just as lethal for any larger animal to eat.

#speculative evolution #speculative biology #spec evo #speculative zoology #hamster's paradise #ask

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octoagentmiles · 1 year

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Animals I wish to see in Above and Beyond:

Alternate title: I Am Banging On Silvergate’s Door As We Speak /j

Bees!! because a bee model does in fact exist. I know this. They just need to use it /srs. Plus bees would make a really cute episode anyway- and when they finally do it I am willing to bet $9999 on it being a Vegimals episode.

Orchid mantis, or any kind of mantis really. Why? They are my favourite bug, next question-

Gynandromorph animal(s)!!! They're so cool—they're what happens when an animal with vastly different gender differences (think the harlequin ducks) is born intersex, and they look like Picasso paintings come to life. (it could also be a fun way to introduce a character with they/them pronouns-)

Parrots! (I know we got the mountain parrots but shh-) I desperately want a Pete-centered episode, and give him some friends while you're at it please.

Centipede! They’re literally just remipedes on land. Make it a Shellington episode and call it a day 👍

Snails. I love snails. They're the best mollusks, I am not accepting criticism.

Tarantula. Just because :)

Bunny. They showed an illustration of a non-anthro bunny in The Cold Snap and I have not felt peace since.

I’d gladly take a jackrabbit too; they’re not really rabbits (they’re hares), but if you’ve read that one post you’ll understand. It’s a Kwazii and Tweak episode.

Sammy The Falcon specifically. What is his deal???? They introduced him as Paani's living taxi and gave us ZERO context.

Maned wolves. Weirdos. (affectionate)

Moose. I will not elaborate further.

I’m down to see the chinstrap penguins again, or Ooju and Rocko—I think they should interact 👀

Ostrich?? Emu?? I have nothing else to say.

Ring-Tailed Lemur. They’re another one of my favourite animals, and I think the Wild Kratts fans would get a kick out of it. They deserve nice things.

Mole lizard. Look it up I DARE you. (cw if you're scared of snakes or worms) /nf

#octonauts #octonauts above and beyond #help i have no idea what to tag-#if you're curious about the bee model: it was shown in a chinese promo poster for anb that i found on my deep dive a while ago #i didn't include it in the post i made but it exists trust me-#source: trust me bro #i want it to be a vegimal ep bc the veges were implied to be a hivemind in the books and i would LOVE for that to be referenced #we need more kwazii and tweak episodes in general. but gimmie em chasing a jackrabbit in the middle of the night bf unsolved style >:)#that'd be so fun you can't argue bc i'm right /lh #shout out to the wk fandom. ily.#i watched like 2 eps of that show as a kid but i was obsessed with the online flash games where u made ur own avatar and went on missions #i dont think it exists anymore but twas a cherished childhood memory nonetheless #do i need to tag bug cw for this post? i just noticed a fair amount of these are insects- i like bugs ig lol #ask to tag

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statecryptids · 1 year

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Happy Found Family Christmas!

Biological family isn’t the only family, an sometimes it’s better to spend the holidays with the loveed ones you’ve found rather than the ones you were born with.

From right to left: coelacanth, remipede, giant pacific octopus, pterotrachea “sea elephant”, Scotoplanes “sea pig”, Magnapinna “bigfin squid”

#Christmas #santa claus #octopus #christmas cards #marine life #found family

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lillid0ptera · 3 days

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Words from the World Below #6: King Pyr'pnom, Host of Dark

King Pyr'pnom, the Apostate Saint Saint Aster had many apostles in his seemingly eternal life, and many would come and go from his tutelage. The majority would simply move on to become saints themselves, but a select few began to doubt their faith. None doubted their faith in Aster more than an ordained saint whose name now goes unsaid. This saint had learned so much and prayed to God so devoutly, yet his faith wavered as Dark crept further into his heart. Soon he saw Aster's teachings as nothing but blind faith in an illusion, The Surface was but a myth and The Dark awaited its king…

This delusion of dark desires brought the saint to apostasy, as he cast aside his role as saint. He would plunge himself into the depths of Dark, where he would become a willing host to its creatures. Parasites, scavengers, worms, remipedes, vermin, all shepherded into his flesh. He would revel in the agony of their mandibles and claws, he saw himself as the King of Dark as they ate him. As he was consumed and defiled by Dark, he heard within his mind a single word "Pyr'pnom", his new name as king.

King Pyr'pnom was a lonely monarch, ruling over nothing but vermin and detritus. Yet, in his delusion, he sees before him a flourishing kingdom that stands to affront the Church's very foundation. He is alone in his vision, as even his supposed subjects only see him as a host. His body is contorted, his skin like stone, his bones shattered, his face like the bottom of the abyss. He alone sees himself as king, and he alone shall see that vision unto eternity.

King Pyr'pnom, Host of Dark Consumed by his subjects, Pyr'pnom could not wish for a better end to his life. Should a king not give himself to his people? Should a king not devote himself fully to his subjects? To be consumed by his people, to have his holy flesh serve as their home is the greatest honor a king could achieve. Yes, this was the most powerful he could ever be.

His form is wretched and mutilated, a sword of ivory ripped from where his arm once was, it writhes with Dragonfire. It is hard to tell if there is any of the delusional king left as his flesh is crawling with remipedes and vermin.

#creative writing #dark fantasy #fantasy #world building #character art #creature design #character design #horror #original character #tw horror #cw gore #cw dismemberment #cw bugs

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limbus-limousine · 22 days

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For the questions thing.. what's your like all time favourite animal ever

This is a very hard question because for favorites I'm like... Very categorybrained as in (reptiles, birds, bugs etc)

But thinking really hardddd.I think. I'd put arthropods and bird at the top.

I actually REALLY!! Really like Remipedes but isopods might surpass them by a bit. I hvae a giant isopod plushie. Love picking them up. One day I want to go to Monterey Bay Aquarium to touch one of the Big Guys...

However I think birds deserve a spot here because I also love them for different reasons. For a more classic one I'm absolutely enamoured by Columbidae, generally prefer doves. I raised a sick collared dove once and it was SO AWESOME. Also big fan of birds of prey (if it wasn't obvious) though I wouldn't choose a specific species... They all have their charm, on that note I prefer Old World vultures rather than New World (King Vulture would be the exception I think). Very needed honorable mention to cuculidae specially Anis. I love Anis they look like dinosaurs. Honorary mention corvids.

That said I think one of my all time favorite birds ever are probably ptarmigans. Favoring Rock ptarmys but all 3 win. The combination of their stupidly round appearance and staggeringly unexpected vocalizations is what does it for me.

OK I KNOW you asked for just one but ! I needed to visualize my tier list here. I think the final winners would be Ptarmy and Giant Isopod probably

#answered #animal talk #should try to get a ptarmy plushie next i think

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spacefinch · 1 year

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Do you love the color of the remipede

(You guys are lucky that I don’t know how to stretch images vertically)

#remipedes #there are many benefits to being a marine biologist #do you love the color of the sky #shellington posts this to annoy tweak and dashi #octonauts #shellington

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elementalgod-aj · 8 months

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Anthro Allies Remastered (Part 8)

Now For Part 1 for The Arthropods

Onychophora

Rubber (Mutant Velvet Worm)

Velcro (Velvet Worm)

Latex (Velvet worm)

Tardigrada

Hourst (Mutant Water Bear)

Yasmin (Water bear)

Moss (tardigrade)

Chelicerata

Levi (House spider/Armed Spider)

Weav (Arachne Spider)

Tenichi (Bark Scorpion)

Singe (Fat Tailed scorpion)

Centurion (Horseshoe crab)

Limulidae (Horseshoe Crab)

Reguu (Sea Spider)

Drone (Sea spider)

Pox (Tick)

Ick (Mite)

Flu (Tick)

Scabies (Mite)

Vivianne (Vinigroon)

Short tail (Schizomida)

Jorōgumo (Whip spider)

Micro whip (Palpigradi)

Pseudo (Pseudoscorpion)

Cowl (Hooded tick spider)

Volant (Camel spider)

Mona (Harvestman)

Myriapod

Cayenne (Myriapod Hybrid)

Zittriapede (Giant Eumillipes millipede)

Ravenous (house Centipede)

Ra-venous (Giant centipede)

Gloria (Amazon centipede)

Edward (Pill millipede)

Blare (Flat Millipede)

Archie (Arthropleura)

Paula (Pauropoda)

Mulch (Garden centipede)

Crustacean

Cyrus (Ghost Crab)

Gagamba (Crab hybrid)

Marshell (Spider crab hybrid)

Hikikomori (Anomura)

Shelton (Lobster)

Etta (Crayfish)

Clay (Mud lobster)

Prong (Spiny/Slipper lobster)

Parkour (Shrimp)

Trawl (Prawn)

Ringster (Boxing shrimp)

Minute (Krill)

Reinhold (Giant Isopod)

Spokes (Pillbug)

Bonez (Skeleton shrimp)

Jouster (Mantis shrimp)

Nix (Fairy shrimp)

Junisha (Remipeded)

Bijou (Copepod)

Giovana (barnacle)

Previous/Next

(For More Information About The Earthdemons, Neo demons, The Anthro allies , the O'Kong family and more of theses characters as well as updates please visit the @the-earthdemon-hub for more)

#my art #my ocs #elementalgod aj #aj the elementalgod #isle 0 #Toonverse oc #The Watchful Eye #Watchful Eye #O'Kong Family #Earthdemons #Neo Demons #Anthro Allies #Onychophora #tardigrade #Chelicerata #Arachnids #Myriapods #crustaceans

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xjumbled-up-brainx · 2 years

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This is a project I’ve been crafting for a while through my re-run of everything english dubbed Octonauts. A brand new A-Z list of EVERY SINGLE CREATURE THE OCTONAUTS HAVE EVER MET:

*Vegimalese*

What’s that Tunip, you and the Vegimals want to learn about even more creatures?

*Vegimalese*

Well, let’s go again!

The Octocomputer will show you all the creatures the Octonauts, and Octo Agents, have met, on both land and sea!

Cheepa Cheepa!

Anaconda 1

Albatross 2

Anemones 3

Angler Fish 4

Arapaima 5

Adele Penguins 6

Alligator 7

Amano Shrimp 8

Anteater 9

Arabian Camels 10

Armadillo 11

Bowhead Whale 12

Barracudas 13

Beluga Whales 14

Black Caiman 15

Blobfish 16

Blue Whale 17

Blue-head Wrasse… 18

Bottle Nose Dolphins 19

Bat 20

Baboons 21

Barnacle Goose 22

Bear 23

Black Giant Squirrel 24

Black Winged Stilt Bird 25

Blind Shrimp 26

Burmese Python 27

Brittle Stars 27

Bombardier Beetle 28 and

Bomber Worms 29

Capybara 30

Carrier Crab 31

Catfish 32

Conocono Crab 33

Conocono Crab?

Coconut Octopus! 34

Colossal Squid 35

Comb Tooth Blenny 36

Cone Snail 37

Cookie Cutter Shark 38

Cuttlefish 39

Convict Fish 40

Caiman 41

Caterpillar 42

Cave Fish 43

Cave Shrimp 44

Chameleon 45

Clam 45

Chinstrap Penguins 46

Chinese Mitten Crab 47

Christmas Tree Worms 48

Coelacanth 49

Coral Polyp 50

Coral Snake 51

Crawfish 52

Crocodile 53

Crow 54

Crown of Thorns Starfish 55

Dormice 56

Deer 57

Damselfish 58

Dogfish 59

Decorator Crab 60

Duck-Bill Platypus 61

Dwarf Lantern Shark 62

Eel 63

Electric Eel 64

Elephant 65 and Elephant Seal66

Elk 67

Egyptian Vulture 68

Emperor Penguin 69

Fiddler Crab 70

Frogfish 71

Fire Ants 72

Flamingoes 73

Flying Fish 74

Flying Fox 75

Fruit Bats 76

Giant Clam 77

Giant Comb Jelly 78

Giant Isopod 79

Giant Spider Crab 80

Giant Squid 81

Giant Grass Carp 82

Giant Pacific Octopus 83

Giant Panda 84

Giant Weta 85

Golden Coral 86

Golden Mole 87

Giraffe 88

Garden Eel 88

Gray Whale 89

Grey Reef Shark 90

Grouper 91

Guard Crab 92

Gull 93

Great White Shark 94

Gulper Eel 95

Hammerhead Shark 96

And Harbor Seal 97

(Inhale hoo inhale hoo)

Harlequin Duck 98

Harpy Eagle 99

Hippos 100

Hoatzin 101

Honey Badger 102

Hornbill 103

Hourglass Dolphins 104

Howler Monkeys 105

Hyenas 106

Hermit Crab 107

Humpback Whale 108

Humphead Parrotfish 109

(Slower) Humu-humu-nuku-nuku-a-pua-a! Haha! 110

Ice worms 111

Iguanas 112

Indochinese Tiger 113

Immortal Jellyfish, 114

Jellyfish 115

Jaguar 116

Jawfish, 117

Kangaroos 118

Kea Parrots 119

Kelp, Fish 120

Leatherback Sea-Turtle 121

Loggerhead Sea-Turtle 122

Lemon Shark 123

Longfin Eels 124

Leopard 125

Lions 126

Lion Fish 127

Lions Mane Jellyfish 128

Long Arm Squid… 129

Leafy Sea Dragon 130

Mangrove crabs 131

Mantis Shrimp 132

Martens 133

Microbe 134

Monarch Butterfly 135

Mound coral 136

Mountain Goats 137

Mud Skipper 138

Moray Eel 139

Mimic Octo-Pus! 140

Marine Iguanas 141

Manta Ray 142

Mana (Mana?) Mana (Mana?) pause. Manatee…! (Clears throat)3

Narwhal 144

Needlefish 145

Nile crocodile 146

Nile monitor lizards 147

Nine banded armadillo 148

Nutria 149

Okapis 150

Omuras whale 151

Orca 152

Oarfish 153

Octopus 154

Prowfish 155

Pelicans 156

Polar Bear 157

Pilot Fish 158

Parrotfish 159

Piranhas 160

Porcupine Puffer 161

Porcupine 162

Puffin 163

Pangolin 164

Pikas 165

Pin-tailed whydahs 166

Poison dart frog 167

Pygmy 3 toed sloths 168

Quino checkerspot butterflies 169

Queens-land-Lung-fish 170

RedRock Crabs 171

Reef Lobsters 172

Remipedes 173

Remora Fish 174

Rainbow blanket octopus 175

Rats 176

Raven 177

Red deer 178

Red eye tree frogs 179

Red fox 180

River Dolphin 181

Rock climbing gobies 182

Ruffed grouse 183

Sand grouse 184

Sand viper 185

Screaming piha 186

Seals 187

Sehuencas water frogs 188

Squid 188

Skinks 189

Skua bird 190

Skull Spiders 191

Snail 192

Spinner dolphins 193

Suckermouth catfish 194

Sun bear 195

Sunflower Star 195

Sunfish 196

Surfing Snail 197

Sailfish 198

Sardines 199

Salt-water croc-o-dile 200

Sea gulls 201

Sea squirts 202

Sea tulips 203

Sea Otter 204

Sea Pig 205

Sea Skater 206

Sea Snail 207

Sea Snake 208

Sea Sponge 209

Sea Urchin 210

Sea Horses 211

Siphonophore 212

Slime Eel 213

Snapping Shrimp 214

Sperm Whale 215

Spook Fish 216

Sea Star 217

Surgeon Fish 218

Swordfish 219

Shovel Nosed-Guitar Fish 220

Swell (sigh) Shark (sigh) 221

Snot Sea (panicked) Cucumber! 222

Tiger shark 223

Tokay Geko 224

Toucan 225

Tree frogs 226

Tree lobsters 227

Tree snails 228

Trout 229

Turtles 230

Tulum cave remipede 231

Tube Worms 232

Triggerfish 233

Tor-pedo Ray…! 234

U: You? Me? Me? You? V!

Vampire Squid 235

Vent Shrimp 236

Vole 237

Watchman goby 238

Water dikkops 239

Weasel 240

Wisent 241

Wolves 242

Wood louse 243

Wolf Eel 244

Whale Shark 245

Walrus 246

Water Bears 247

Weddell Seal 248

Whale Louse 249

White-Tip-Shark 250

X: Xylophone solo!

Yellow bellied sea snakes 251

Yeti Crab 252

Zebra 253

Zebra fish! 259

Dadadada!

#I’m having the Shellington moment at the end of the first official song where I realize ima have to edit this when season 5 gets English dub #MEOMI AND OCTONAUTS CREATORS:#do your musical thing pls and make this happen #if Keith wickam voiced this I would simply pass away #for 12 years of adeventures!#octonauts aniversay!#octonauts a&b #octonauts #octonauts above and beyond #above and beyond #the numbers are a bit messed up but the final number is 258 creatures

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How do you do? As well as you know, the usual being plagued by antlered worms and attacking earth-eaters. Hopefully wizards and bats and lizards and rats can compete with that, with Carnival Jack. Though the Architect seems friendly, which is probably just swell. Beyond the Architect are the cave spiders, crawling around one another within a great cylindrical star-cavern and paying no heed to the small crab between their feet holding one Dreamsphere (ours). Upon the outside surface of the cylinder trods a great elk, and between the icy-white and ivy-draped peaks of its antlers lies a great network of cobwebs, of silken strings, upon which dances a great Remipede, playing out the Song of Reality on the strings of the great harp, which hums in the ear of the narwhal-squids which pull the chariot of the Hand of Time around the circumference of the great celestial Clown Clock, which crawls with ogres and goblins and spiders and trolls and dragons and squid and emerald crabs and hermit crabs and octopus-belugas, all hanging about in the tide-pools between its infinitely-stretching axial spars. All of this is in turn imagined by the velociraptor-monkey with a spear which lives in a tree and hides from snapping packs of weevil-aardvark-aardwolf-wolves, cougar crabs and angry lobster-tigers snapping for a denied dinner. In a hidden compartment in its tree, the velociraptor-monkey protects a hidden tankful of Architects on a reef which hold Memories in time via Dreamspheres. Butterflies and moths made of jewels flit lazily above it all, more heedless than the vultures and bustards and buzzards which are starting to crowd in the sky and blot out the sun and descend on the land to relieve its remaining carnage that following day. “Parsley, Sage, Rosemary, and Thyme, Yesterday Holds Memories In Time,” screams Carnival Jack’s enabler with a great cruel sneer and pulls out your heart and demands that you yield. His mouth makes impossible sounds that seem almost like words. You cannot decrypt it, no matter how you scream. We all emerge as particles of unfiltered light from the eyes at the tips of an anemone’s waving fronds.

The Clockmakers are coming.

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