Byasa Polyeuctes

Byasa polyeuctes

Also known als the common windmill or windmill butterfly. It is very common in India and belongs to the windmill genus “Byasa”

These butterflies prefer forests and woods as habitat.

The length is between 1.1 and 1.4 cm

Panthera Tigris

Tiger

Tigers are orange in color because their main prey, deer, see them as green. That is because deer can only see blue and green light, which makes them colorblind to red.

Costasiella kuroshimae

Is also known as “leaf sheep” is a kind of sea slug who feeds on algae.

What makes it so interesting is that it is the only organism in the entire world that is not a plant yet is able to photosynthesize.

Costasiella Kuroshimae are shell-less and range in size from 5mm to 1cm (1/4 to 3/8 inch) in length.

They were first discovered in 1993 off the coast of the Japanese island Kuroshima.

The interesting fact about these slugs is that they are capable of a physiological process called kleptoplasty, in which they retain the chloroplasts from the algae they feed on.

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Cyerce elegans

Mostly lives in with Halimeda kanaloana and Halimeda idea algae covered habitats

She is found in depths of 10-18 meters

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.

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.