Pseudobiceros Hancockanus

Pseudobiceros hancockanus

Hancock's Flatworm

They are a species of hermaphroditic marine flatworm in the family Pseudocerotidae.

It can grow up to 14cm (5.5 inches) in length.

Pseudobiceros hancockanus lives in warm seas or coral reefs (seen in Indonesia, Fiji and Kenya)

Scientists suspect it eats small invertebrates that live in sponges.

Smaug giganteus

Isn’t it funny that they named it after Smaug, the DRAGON?!

It is named after the dragon Smaug from the fantasy book “The Hobbit” by J.R.R. Tolkien.

The second part of its name „gigangeus“ is Latin meaning gigantic, because it is the largest member of the Cordylidae family.

They grown up to 35-40cm (15 inches).

Unlike other girdled lizards they don’t live on rocks, they make shallow burrows in open grassland. They live in South Africa.

Elaeomyxa Cerifera

Was first identified in 1942. They are slime mold sporophores that can split open to release spores that sparkle like a disco ball.

It looks like a galaxy

But these aren’t mushrooms!

They aren’t even fungi.. Plasmodial slime molds are in Amoebozoa with organisms like Amoeba proteus.

While fungi belong to the genetic supergroup Obazoa with the animals, a Komodo dragon is more closely related to fungi than a slime is.

They wary in size from less than a millimeter to several centimeters.

Ctenoides scaber

Is also known as flame scallop. It is a species of saltwater clam and belong to the family of Limidae.

Even though you might think it of their name, they aren’t related to true scallops.

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They are herbivores and only eat phytoplankton.

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The superhero of the sea

Tremoctopus violaceus

Also known as Blanket octopus

There wasn’t a single male Blanket octopus discovered until 2002 because scientists looked at the wrong sized animals. Female Blank octopuses can be up to 40.000 times more massive than males which makes them the largest gender discrepancy in the whole animal kingdom.

The female blanket octopus has a long, fleshy ‘cape’ enclosing its tentacles. The cape makes the octopus appear larger to potential predators.

It’s also called the superhero of the sea because of its large cape.

They are found in subtropical and tropical oceans.

Argema mittrei

Also known as comet moth lives in Madagascar.

The male has a wingspan of 20 centimeters and a tail span of 15 centimeters. Which makes it one of the world’s largest silk moths.

The female lays 120-170 eggs.

They unfortunately live only between 6-8 days.

When the moths emerge from their cocoons as adults they no longer feed on plants to survive. They do have a mouth and a gut but neither function.

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