I found this little fella’ in my AP Bio book! It is an axolotl, a salamander native to shallow ponds in central mexico. Those feathery looking things on his little head, those are gills! So cool!
Habitat: Tropical Western Pacific
Chromodoris roboi is a species of colorful sea slug, a dorid nudibranch, a marine gastropod mollusk.
Habitat: Indo-West Pacific
Status: No conservation concerns
Here he is, the Starry-mouthed Nudibranch (Bornella stellifer). The “starry mouth” are actually oral tentacles elaborated into a pair of star-like or palmate sensory organs.
Hundreds of moon jellyfish babies have been born at the Weymouth Sealife centre in Dorset. Aquarists say they have never seen so many jelly babies of all shapes, sizes and colours from many different species at one time - but even though they may look cute many of them are highly poisonous as well. Picture: Peter Willows/BNPS
Habitat: Indo-Pacific Oceans, from Guam to East Africa
Peacock Mantis Shrimp! He’s so stunning, but looks sure are deceiving here because this guy is what’s known as a smasher, with club shaped raptorial appendages that it uses to repeatedly smash its prey until it can gain access to the soft tissue for consumption.
It is reported to have a “punch” of over 50mph. The fastest punch of any living animal.
Habitat: Indo-Pacific
Not much is known about this sea creature. His scientific name is Armina cf. semperi. Got an idea for a nick name? Tell me!
Phyllodesmium poindimiei…
Habitat: New Caledonia, eastern Australia, Western Australia
Status: No conservation concerns
