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the-animal-kingdom · 1 month

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Did you know, that nudibranch’s (aka. Sea slugs) are hermaphrodites, which means that they have both male and female reproductive systems, meaning that when they find a mate, they inseminate each other at the same time; they do this by spearing each other with their genitalia.

Here is my favourite sea slug, the butterfly cyerce nudibranch, and they feed on algae:

#animal facts #animals #facts #random facts #aquatic #aquatic creatures #sea slug fact #sea slug facts #sea slugs #sea slug #butterfly sea slug #butterfly cyerce nudibranch

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dampfnudeldove · 3 months

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y'all would like my sea creature/cambrian pumpkin pies wouldn't you

#food #baking #hand pies #anomalocaris #sea slug #arthropods #they're like. crabs and some sort of bug. possibly isopod if you sqint #fun fact I made these as some guy was screaming death threats outside my door

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kazenorth · 5 months

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Sea Bunnies 🐇

These toxic sea slugs, scientifically known as Jorunna parva, usualy only reach less than an inch long in length!

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nightingaleinberkleysquare · 5 months

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Common name: Blue dragon/Blue Glaucus

Scientific name: Glaucus Atlanticus

Diet: venomous siphonophores, snails

Habitat: tropical/subtropical open ocean

Genus: Glaucus

Predators: loggerhead sea turtles

Size: 1-3 inches

Lifespan: a year at most

Extra information: their Blue color helps camouflage.

They store the stinging cells (nematocysts) from their prey, which is where they get their venom.

A group of Blue Dragons if called a Blue fleet

They are hermaphrodites.

They are appearing in places they haven't been before, scientists theorize this is because of cyclical changes in Portuguese man o war populations, increased storm activity, and warming oceans.

Their venom is active even after death.

#marine bio #marine biology #fish #fish facts #marine life #sea creatures #fishfact #marine animals #nudibranch #sea slugs #blue glaucus #blue dragon #nudibranch thursday

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2022dirt · 8 months

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A slug that has no clue where its going.

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enq · 11 months

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I FUCKING LOVE NUDIBRANCHES Just my appreciation for the Opalescent Nudibranch

https://www.vichighmarine.ca/opalescentnudibranch/

#nudibranch #sea slug #marine love #cute animals #peepee #opalescent #animal facts

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aquaticbaguette · 8 months

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YALL.

There is literally a sea slug called the Pikachu nudibranch

LOOK AT IT

#animal facts #wtf facts #marine biology #animals #water #sea life #slugs and snails #pokemon #pikachu

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katbananassillyzoo · 1 month

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Sea Bunny - Jorunna parva

They eat toxic sponges, which contain toxins that can be used in cancer treatments (This means they're also toxic themselves, so don't try to touch them if you ever encounter one)

The fur-like texture of these creatures are called "papillae", which are used for sensory functions

They come in three colors: white, yellow, and green.

Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jorunna_parva

#animal facts #fun facts #animals #silly little guy #marine life #sea slugs #sea bunny #sea critters #sea creature

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fishyfishyfishtimes · 1 year

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If u haven't done a post already, could u make a post about sea cookies, or sea cucumbers, or sea bunnies? Whatever u prefer. ♡

Well, I'd like to! It's just that I'm a fish fact-dedicated account and other sea creatures aren't really under my area of expertise! But they might be someone else's, hmm....

Ahti II?

And there you have it! This was something new and experimental I wanted to do for funsies. I get many questions about non-fish aquatic animals, and is there a person more qualified to answer than an underwater prince who can talk to sea creatures?

As this is a 3-for-1 deal and I researched all this information in just a day, here are my sources under the cut! In case I got anything wrong, you may correct me.

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bethanythebogwitch · 10 months

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We return to the series where I discuss the origin of every non-fish aquatic Pokémon. This time I’ll be covering generation IV, which has some of my favorite designs out of the whole franchise. As before I’m saving starters and legendaries/mythicals for their own posts and I covered all fish Pokémon in their own series of posts. To see previous parts of this series see gen I part 1, gen I part 2, gen II, and gen III. To see the fish of Sinnoh, see here. To see the fish Pokémon series see here.

We begin with what is undeniably the most popular and influential Pokémon line in the history of the franchise: the Bidoof line. Never before has there been a beast of such majesty and power, an angelic presence from the heavens. Mere mortals are not worthy to gaze upon Bidoof. Technically only Bibarel is aquatic, but to not include Bidoof would be the greatest of heresies. They’re both rodents (the chaddest of mammals) with Bidoof most likely being based on a groundhog or mountain beaver. Mountain beavers resemble tailless beavers but are not closely related and don’t live in water.

(image: a mountain beaver)

If you are foolish enough to dilute Bidoof’s purity by evolving it to Bibarel, it will be based on a beaver.

(image: a North American beaver)

These amphibious rodents are famous for building dams by chewing through small trees and assembling the trees and branches in structures that block waterways. Beaver dams can turn a stream into a full wetland by blocking the flow and they are very important to the wetland ecology of their habitats. The dams serve as homes for the beavers and is where they keep their young.

(image: a cross-section of a beaver dam. source)

Juveniles will stay in the dam until they are mature enough to fend for themselves. Bidoof is likely a juvenile that is not old enough to swim yet and must rely on its parents to thrive in wetland habitats. There are two species, the North American beaver and the Eurasian beaver. The Eurasian beaver was almost hunted to extinction for its fur, but has been successfully reintroduced to quite of a bit of its historical range. Bibarel might be based on the Eurasian beaver as it is native to, and has been reintroduced to, China and Sinnoh has quite a few references to China. Also of note, the male Bibarel has two extra balls on the base of its tail. Male rodents are notorious for having large testicles. Do with that information what you will.

Moving on from Bidoof will never be easy, but it is necessary. We now turn to the moist mustelids of the Buizel line. They are based on otters, particularly river otters due to their freshwater habitat.

(image: a eurasian otter)

Even more specifically, they may be based on the Japanese otter, a river otter native to Japan that was last seen in the 1970s and officially declared extinct in 2012. Despite being primarily depicted as a freshwater species, their category name is the “sea weasel Pokémon”, indicating that they are also based on marine otters, the most famous of which being the sea otter of the north Atlantic. Otters and weasels are both members of the family Mustelidae, with their subfamilies being sister groups. There are weasels that are partially or even primarily aquatic, though they as a group are more terrestrial.

(image: a mink going for a swim. Minks are a subset of weasels)

The Buizel line also draws from floatation devices like inner tubes, water wings, and life vests, with the yellow parts of their bodies being inflatable and buoyant and Floatzel being said to rescue drowning victims.

The Shellos line is without exaggeration one of my favorite lines in the franchise due to the cool biological references they have. They are based on nudibranchs, an order of marine gastropods commonly called sea slugs (though some non-nudibranchs are also called sea slugs). Many nudibranchs are very colorful, which inspired the pink and blue coloration of the Shellos lines.

(image: it's a nudibranch, dudeibranch)

Nudibranchs can be divided into dorids and aeolids based on their breathing apparatuses. Shellos and Gastrodon are aeolids, who have tendril or fronds like growths called cerata that help them breathe. The head tendrils of east sea Shellos and both Gastrodons and the crown-like organ of west sea shellos are based on cerata, as are the various lumps and fin-like structures found on all of them. A few species of nudibranch have moved their cerata to a more fin or wing-like position, which may explain why east sea shellos appears to have wings. The “wings” could also be based on sea hares, another group of sea slugs, some species of which have developed wing-like structures that allow them to swim.

(Image: a flying sea hare)

Sea hares are named for their large rod-like scent organs called rhinopores found in most sea slugs, which may be another inspiration for the head tentacles of Gastrodon. Shelos and Gastrodon can learn some poison-type moves depending on generation and this has a few bases. Many nudibranchs have venomous or poisonous cerata. Often this is a result of eating venomous hydrozoans like anemones and sequestering their stinging cells in the cerata. The bright colors of some nudibranchs may be the result of aposematic coloration, where a species is brightly colored as a warning to potential predators that they are poisonous. The line releases a purplish chemical when stressed, which likely references sea hares again. They can release a colorful, toxic ink into the water as a defense mechanism.

(image: a California sea hare at a rave releasing ink)

The coolest trait of the Shellos line in my opinion is the fact that there are two distinct populations, east sea and west sea, that have different colors and body structures. This is due to the process of allopatric speciation. This is the process where a species is split into two or more distinct populations by a geographical barrier. Once they are isolated, the populations will begin developing distinct traits due to evolution and them no longer being able to interbreed. Over a long enough time period, the populations can grow so different from each other that they can no longer breed and will be considered different species.

(image: a diagram of how allopatric speciation works. source)

The two Shellos and Gastrodon populations in Sinnoh were separated by the Sinnoh mountain range, causing the process of allopatric speciation to begin. The two populations can still breed, suggesting that they have not been separated long enough to become two distinct species and may be more accurately described as subspecies or a superspecies, but breeding in Pokémon is nothing like real life reproduction so that may not be the case. Most other regions use only one Shellos population and in Paldea they may be isolated by the connection to Kalos. A real-life example of allopatric speciation can be seen in the two species of chimpanzee: troglodytes and bonobos. The two shared a common ancestor a few million years ago but that ancestor’s range was cut in two by the Congo River. Since chimpanzees are very poor swimmers, the two populations were isolated from each other and developed into two species. Allopatric speciation likely plays a part in how some regional variants developed, but this on on a case-by case basis and is rarely the only factor.

This is the shortest of these series and Gen V will hopefully be out soon. See you next time for when I talk about my first generation of the games.

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hugsohugs · 4 months

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King The Slunk

(context: i'm replaying miitopia and assigned slunk as the king, and as soon as i saw these consecutive dialogues i dropped everything to draw this)

#huso smashes buttons #huso art #oc: the slunk #fun fact: sea slugs are carnivores!! so this drawing could theoretically happen!!#granted they don't eat 'meat' exactly. just other living things #but whatever

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the-animal-kingdom · 2 months

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Did you know, that sea slugs aren’t very smart, this isn’t to do with anything that they have done but just down to the fact that they don’t have a lot of brain cells. Sea slugs have on average, around 20,000 brain cells; in contrast, humans have around 86 billion.

#animal facts #animals #facts #random facts #sea slug #sea slugs #sea slug facts #sea slug fact #brain cells #brain #aquatic creatures #aquatic

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caseywond3r · 11 months

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what is your favourite small animal and why is it bnuuys?

okay so you're very close but it's these fuckers

this is the leaf sheep and he's a type of sacoglossan sea slug. he is bioluminescent and capable of photosynthesis because he retains the chloroplasts from the algae he eats!! he's extremely tiny, about .5-1cm in length, and he looks like a little sheep made of leaves. hence the name. he also, in my opinion, looks like a pokemon.

he is closely related to the nudibranch, an order of sea slugs that lack an internal shell and have external gills.

(quick infographic so you can see how cool these fuckers are)

the reason I say you were close is because there is a species of nudibranch called a sea bunny!!!! and they're so cute!!!!!!

look at these fuckers!!!!!! definitely one of my favourites.

anyways. neurodivergent people when they are asked about something that has zero to do with their special interest finding a way to relate it back to their special interest. sorry. but also not at all please give me more excuses to talk about sea slugs.

#nudibranchs #leaf sheep #leaf slug #sea bunny #animals #fun facts #asks #alys-is-dumb-sometimes #caseyrambles #caseys fun factos #sorry alys you can't ask a simple question like that and not expect a six paragraph answer I'm just sexy like that

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kazenorth · 11 hours

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The Orange-Peel Doris!🍊

Scientific name: Acanthodoris lutea. This beauty weaponizes the bryozoans it eats, taking the toxins for itself, hence its bright warning colors.

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snapdrxgon-ivy · 7 days

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And statement:

The costasiella kuroshimae is a sea slug (and the only animal that we know about) that can photosynthesize by absorbing the chloroplasts in the algae it eats.

This is what it looks like:

Genuinely never seen something look so fluffy and so smooth at the same time what the hell I love this funky fella thank you for introducing me to them

Got my next midnight research topic lined up now 📝

#costasiella kuroshimae #sea slug #cool animal facts #research topics

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noncompliantcyborg · 3 months

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Requesting a nudibranch fun fact if you'd enjoy enjoy sharing! Love these creatures.

Also want to show you quite possibly my favourite image of all time.

That's such a cute photo!!

Here's a nudibranch fact and related photo:

This is Melibe leonina, also known as the lion's mane nudibranch or hooded nudibranch. I saw this one off a dock last night. A fun fact about this species is that they have a really distinctive smell - sort of like a combination of watermelon and citrus.

#marine biology #nudibranch #sea slug #marine life #ask and i shall infodump #salish sea #nightlighting #fun facts #my marine life photos

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