#marine biodiversity

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Basket star

“Basket star on sea fan, taken at the dive site Fan Reef, also known as Fantastic Reef, a small offshore rocky reef in the Castle Rocks area on the False Bay coast of the Cape Peninsula, near Cape Town in the Western Cape province of South Africa.” - via Wikimedia Commons

[jellyfishmakeoutparty]

I love butterfly rays because half of the images of them online come in two varieties and it’s

a) a baybey!

b) I know what you are.

[strawlessandbraless]

Giant Siphonophores really out here doing the most, and somehow also the least

Love to sea it

[orangeblossombitch]

The kelp is blooming

[amnhnyc]

🍪 Feeling hungry? Well, despite its name, the chocolate chip sea star (Protoreaster nodosus) probably wouldn’t taste very good. To start, those “chips” aren't chocolate at all… they’re tubercles, or knobs, and they’re unique to each sea star. No two individuals have the same arrangement of tubercles!

Like many other sea stars, this marine invertebrate eats by pushing its stomach out of its mouth, covering its meal, and then digesting it externally. This critter inhabits the warm waters of the Indian Ocean and Pacific Ocean, where it might be spotted around coral reefs or seagrass beds. It can grow up to 12 inches (30 cm) across.

Photo: woodgreg, CC BY-NC 4.0, iNaturalist

[hypersharkation]

[useless-catalanfacts]

Mahi mahi, Dolphinfish, Dorado & Lampuga, all names for the Coryphaena hippurus! These colourful fish are found in the Mediterranean Sea at this time of year (August-November), often aggregating underneath objects floating on the surface.

They live for up to five years, and can get to a meter in length!

By Save the Med Foundation.

In Catalan they're called llampuga, llampec or daurat.

[lily-of-the-valley66]

My lecturer started off today by saying he was going to try to be politically correct,

How, pray tell, can someone be politically incorrect about crustaceans?

[wachinyeya]

'Living Breakwater' Makes Room for Oysters and Tidal Pools In Award Winning Design off Staten Island https://www.goodnewsnetwork.org/living-breakwater-makes-room-for-oysters-and-tidal-pools-in-award-winning-design-off-staten-island/

[angelnumber27]

Violet sea snail

[placentaeater999]

YOU ALL.

I know we (almost) all like fishes or have liked fishes at some point

(The autisms)

I wanna find out if we have reasons in common or if its just like

Random

So i made a google form pls fill it out

EDIT: Thanks for so many responses y'all! I'm gonna leave the form open all week, and then next Monday (Feb 13) I'm gonna start making my charts and writing up what ive collected! So if youre as interested in the results as I am, stay tuned!

EDIT 2: As of today (Monday Feb 13, 2023 @5PM PST) the autism fish form is closed. Later today or tomorrow i'll show some of the data before i put it into a nicer format :3

EDIT 3: (Friday March 3, 2023) I haven't been able to work on compiling and analyzing my raw data yet due to school and work, but I should be able to do it this weekend! Exciting!

EDIT 4: (Monday May 21, 2023) FINALLY i can get this done omfg. Expect it by the end of the week ;3

EDIT 5: (Wednesday May 31, 2023) Got all the important shit done now i just have to write it all nice.

EDIT 6: (Tuesday August 1, 2023) Im halfways done writing it, i have no laptop so im using the library, which you can only use for 2 hours a day.

EDIT 7: (Wednesday August 2, 2023) I'm DONE writing. Time to make and add in some graphs and ill be done.

EDIT 8: (Thursday August 3, 3023) PlacentaEater's autism fish Paper is now up for you all to view! I will link it here as well. Thanks for ur support and ur patience!

[wikipediapictures]

Phyllodesmium opalescens

[strawlessandbraless]

A group of jellyfish is called a SMACK

[isopodiclopedia]

Left: New England Nudibranchs

Right: Pacific Coast Nudibranchs

MS, R. Tucker A., and The New Illustrated Naturalist. 1954. ‘American Seashells’. 1st ed. Princeton, New Jersey: D. Van Nostrand Company, Inc.

[amnhnyc]

POV: You’re in the middle of the ocean and, for some reason, you need to write something down. To your surprise and delight, you discover that there are about three hundred species of sea pen! Unfortunately for you, none of them can be used for writing.

Named for their resemblance to old-fashioned quills, sea pens are actually not single animals: They are colonies of polyps. All of the polyps work together and each has a role to play. There are feeding polyps that catch plankton, as well as polyps that circulate water to keep the colony balanced and upright.

Photo: diverdan55, CC BY-NC 4.0, iNaturalist (Ptilosarcus gurneyi pictured) 

[kaplisdb]

🫧Daily Marine Fact🫧:

🪼Box Jellyfish have 24 eyes. Their eyes are more similar to vertebrates and their visual system is elaborate. They have a pair of pit eyes, a pair of slit eyes, a small upper lens eye, and a larger lower lens eye🪼