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heartnosekid · 8 months

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giant nudibranch (dendronotus iris) | source

#stim #nudibranchs #giant nudibranch #sea creatures #sfw #white #blue #black #underwater #animals #sea slugs #gastropods #molluscs #dendronotus iris #ishy gifs #postish

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theaquariumdotcom · 11 months

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deep sea creachur appreciation post!!!!

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eurydike-on-media · 6 months

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I may or may not be positively obsessed with the Seattle Aquarium and our friends there.

At the Seattle Aquarium, you can learn more about the local marine life as well as learn about conservation and research efforts. Through local collaboration and education, we can work towards lessening and possibly even reversing the harm we’ve done to our environment.

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neetagardner · 1 year

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#J is for Jolly Green Giant #nudibranch #nudibranch art #ocean illustration #marine life illustration #neetagardner

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cuprohastes · 1 year

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Visit strange new worlds and pet... Your co-workers

OK look: Allogrooming.

We'll pet anything. Big lizard? Lemme hold it. Fur? Oh god damn yes. Feathers? So burd, much stroke. Tiny octopus with blue rings or a highly toxic nudibranch? Lemme stroke it. Even people petting giant wads of gum.

[puts finger to erpiece] ... that was a cat!? It was pink! ... Hairless you say? mm-hmm... ohh, to shreds you say?

Anyway. I've seen my mother pick up: a decorator crab , a snake, a monitor lizard, and a skunk and pet them.

The skunk was a professional. He was down with it.

Anyway. Imagine the various aliens and their assigned Human (Who's there to carry stuff and do the Human Things), and one day the Geologist comes out and her fur is perfect, and everyone is like... wait there's a fur-stylist on base?

No, but if you let the Human pet you, they'll also groom you, trim your fur, and help you get your dye job right.

And slooowly people are just standing innocently near the Human looking all tactile and groomable, and hey you know humans only have limited amounts of hair?

Did you know they use it for display? Did you know they have thousands of years of cultural history of coming up with really cool decorations?

The relief crew shows up and the on-site team just breeze past with painted feathers, dyed fur, beaded hair, Celtic patterns shaved into their fuzz - as for that one Tsin, what they've had happen to their scales? They got offers. Like serious attention.

#Humans are space orcs #humans are weird #Pet the Geologist

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plaguedocboi · 3 months

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What is your favorite nudibranch and why? (Idk it's just neat is a completely valid answer btw)

The blue velvet nudibranch is my sea slug fursona so I’m gonna go with them. Honorable mention to the living pile of melted asphalt, the giant sea hare, for what I think are extremely obvious reasons

#sea slugs #great beasts these

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crevicedwelling · 5 months

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are there any land gastropods with bright colors like nudibranchs?

plenty, although for shelled examples many are only colorful on the shell and not the flesh.

note that many of these are tree snails, and also many are in peril due to overharvesting for the shell trade

here’s a post with slugs:

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he-was-number-wan · 5 months

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Mainline Pokémon Games Based on How Buggy They Are: A Thread

Red, Blue, & Yellow

Pretty buggy. The Butterfree line set the stage for regional bugs and emotional trauma. Everybody loves Scyther. Inspired use of Cordyceps when designing the Parasect line. Kabuto and Kabutops should have been Bug to honor trilobites for founding Arthropoda. 8/10.

Gold, Silver, & Crystal

Yes, we had Scyther, but what about second Scyther? Scizor, Heracross, and Shuckle are legends. Game Freak decided to invite arachnids (Spinarak and Ariados) to the party, truly redefining what it means to be buggy. 9/10.

Ruby, Sapphire, & Emerald

This generation is loaded with bugs! Game Freak realized their mistake in not giving the Kabutops line Bug typing, making up for it with Anorith and Armaldo (who are based on Anomalocaris). They fumble the recovery, however, in not only depriving the Flygon line of Bug typing, but forever making them second fiddle to the Salamence line. The Beautifly, Dustox, and Ninjask lines introduce some interesting approaches to Bug-type evolution. Volbeat and Illumise are there. 7.8/10.

Diamond, Pearl, & Platinum

DELELELELELEWHOOOOOOP! A smaller collection of bugs this gen, but a well-rounded one. Vespiquen slays. Scorpions get some love via Skorupi, Drapion, and Gliscor. Writing this post is making me realize that slugs, snails, and nudibranchs like the Magcargo and Gastrodon lines aren’t bugs. We grew up thinking snails were bugs, right? Anyway, Yanmega rules. 8/10.

Black, White, Black 2, White 2

Game Freak’s magna opera. Truly the buggiest games there are. While you have to wait until Pinwheel Forest to encounter your first bugs, you’re rewarded upon arrival with Sewaddle and Venipede, the larvae of the Leavanny and Scolipede lines. From there, you encounter the Crustle, Galvantula, and Volcarona lines. Game Freak has some more fun with Bug evolutions, having Karrablast steal Shelmet’s armor as they evolve into Escavalier and Accelgor (inspired by the real-world interactions between the ground beetle family Carabidae and the gastropods they feed on). Durant is our first proper ant, and we get our first (and only . . . ) legendary / mythical Bug in Genesect. These games made Bug my favorite type. 10/10.

X & Y

A big step down from the previous generation. This game hardly has any bugs. Do you like butterflies? You get a butterfly. Vivillon is a lovely butterfly that comes in all sorts of colors, but SURELY there are more bugs than that in France. 6/10.

Sun, Moon, Ultra Sun, Ultra Moon

Giant isopods! Diving bell spiders! Giraffe stag beetles! A true return to form. While the native bugs of Alola are great, we are also introduced to the ultra beasts, two of which (Buzzwole and Pheromosa) are really cool bugs. It seems they were going for wasps and bee flies when designing the Naganadel and Ribombee lines, but they don’t really work for me. Faint blemishes on an otherwise buggy generation. 8.5/10.

Sword & Shield

Centiskorch is the greatest Pokémon ever made. I have them tattooed on my arm. Blipbug is the worst Pokémon ever made. I see them in my nightmares. Interesting that they’re both Bug Pokémon, and that Game Freak really min-maxed with them. Fortunately, Blipbug evolves into Dottler and Orbeetle, who are great. Snom has a place in everyone’s heart, and Frosmoth is elegant as can be. 9.5/10.

Scarlet & Violet

I love Rellor and Rabsca! I . . . don’t really love the rest! Iron Moth and Slither Wing are great, but they’re nepo babies. Tarountula and Nymble are nice, but Spidops and Lokix leave something to be desired. Orthworm is a a big worm. At the end of the day, these games would be alright if they weren’t so wonkily coded and glitchy. Wish there was a better word for that. 7/10.

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amity206 · 10 months

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Light creature fan designs!

First off, non of this is canon (except for the eel which is a redesign of the eel in Treasure Reef) but maybe one day…

Read about them under the cut!

Giant Isopod: behaves similar to crabs but twice the size and they live in the deep sea! Some could be corrupted but I love them and don’t want to be attacked by them so… their call is similar to a crab but more “bubbly” and less high-pitched

Squid: big guys! A few are tiny like baby jellies and swim in little schools but the big ones swim on their own. I’m not sure what interactions they could have with the player aside from recharging you (maybe they could leave a light trail like the turtle and eel?). They have sort of a spooky ominous sounding call

Owl: light creatures only found in a few areas in Forest, they only come out at night (like in night mode areas). They have a low call, like a real owl’s hoot, and are around the size of a skykid.

Nautilus: swimming creatures a bit bigger than a skykid, I don’t know what they would do or what their call would sound like. They’re just cool.

Anemone: they don’t have a call, but they’re super special because they can hide you from krill! Based off how clownfish will hide in anemones from predators, krill can’t see you in the tentacles of an anemone (which also provides you with air for breathing underwater)

Axolotl: like in the real world, they can only be found in one lake. You can pick them up and hold them maybe? They have a squeaky call

Sea Slug / Nudibranch: a bit bigger than a crab, they provide you with bubbles and that’s it.

Remora: the moths of underwater, they cling to larger light creatures and the capes of skykids and provide them with bubbles and recharge! They also have a squeaky call

Eel (redesign): now it just looks more like a light creature

I have a few other light creatures I might design / draw, like hermit crabs, leafy sea dragons, some sort of egret, and maybe a corrupted anglerfish that lures skykids in with what looks like wax? Stay tuned!

#sky cotl #sky children of the light #thatskygame #sky cotl art #sky fanart #my art #sky: cotl #sky: children of the light

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raintailed · 3 months

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couple more sillies for funguary.

first is Bufo (they/them), a frogcat! based on satan's bolete, as well as (checks notes) demons, horny toad lizards, beelzebufo, and african giant toads.

2nd is a coastal slugcat based on silver leaf fungus and sea lettuce nudibranchs. they belong to @registered-anonymous :]

#raintailed's art #funguary #funguary2024 #rain world #rw #rain world oc #my ocs #others' ocs #bufo (oc)#reference #im feelin art block so i dont know how many funguary prompts i'll finish #but i still have some ideas being cooked up right now :]

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bogleech · 2 years

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what do you think of melibe viridis/melibe nudibranchs in general?

They're my favorite nudibranchs and probably one of my ten favorite animal groups!

The ones that perch on stuff with their mouths open are the most "famous," even if the group overall is still kind of obscure outside marine biology. I do love that a slug evolved into basically an underwater fly trap!

But, the ones that crawl around in the muck are my favorites, I think. Even if it's a little more conventional for a slug to crawl around in the muck rather than larp a satellite dish, it's still such a bizarrely shaped animal with a giant, stretchy butterfly net for a face and that lovably "rotten algae" surface texture. This may actually be the #2 sea animal I wish had a common counterpart on land. I wish I could walk into the woods and find exactly this crawling up a tree, hunting for bugs.

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mutedeclipse · 8 months

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nudibranch dragon time

This is cascade the giant telepathic sea slug dragon. I may tweak them a little or follow through on that anthro design but for now enjoy this nudibranch

May have to take a closer look for the subtle shading tho

#mutedeclipse #digital art #character design #nudibranch #dragon #nudibranch dragon #cascade (oc)#no specific species referenced but if you can find one that resembles cascade i will (???) be your friend idk

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sidhewrites · 1 month

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so many lesser known animals really are just straight up pokemon i swear

i mean there's the ones that were obviously inspirations such as the caterpie line and swallowtail butterflies irl

(Linking images in case anyone is afraid of insects. Here's the caterpillar using its "horns" as a way to intimidate potential predators, and here's a swallowtail chrysalis which obviously inspired metapod)

but there's so many more? like the rock/normal-type bat eared fox with it's tiny head and giant ears.

And nudibranchs (sea slugs) are all over the place. I know we already have gastrodon and shellos, but what about everyone's favorite, the grass/water-type sea sheep slug

or the leeetle dragon-type spanish shawl

Not to mention the countless different rock/water-type frogfish around the world, with their modified pectoral fins to let them walk or hop across the sea floor

And what about a little numbat? leetle guy! eats bugs!

or my favorite guy ever, the flying-type long-eared jeroba! You know he uses his ears to fly.

And who could forget everyone's favorite bird pokemon, the greater lophorina with his normal, attack, and defense forms?

Insects below the cut!

Or how about some of the more colorful species of slug moths?

The caterpillars are no less wild. Here are a few different slug moth species in their caterpillar stage

Plus the tiny and adorable thorn bugs

#pokemon #animals #insects #birds #fish #i just!!! love ecology man #i did this instead of working rip

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spotty-is-slumberous · 8 months

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…… Would it be too nerdy of me to design mermaid fnaf characters,,

“Sea bunny”/nudibranch Bonnie

Flying fish Chica

Whale shark Freddy because he’s a gentle giant

Blue shark Roxanne, bc blue sharks have been nicknamed the “wolves of the sea”

Jellyfish Sun and Moon

Giant squid Music Man and all his little squid babies

And then. Just. Alligator Monty because of. Very creative reasons

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dragonthunders01 · 8 months

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Spectember D11: Seed World

It has been 200 million years since mankind launched into the stars an colonized many of the worlds that were attainable on their reach, many populated by their native life, many others on their youth of development and many others that even though they reunited the right conditions for life to form, they were barren, so they filled them with their collection of fauna, many being turned to an earth like Eden world, but not many remained that way, some started to degrade fast for the long term conditions of the planet geology or position of their stars, some die out for extraordinary cosmic event and others just faded into oblivion for the circumstances of their own planetary development.

The world of Scelloc was a tropical oceanic planet splashed with dozens of small islands, many of them volcanic in nature, the settlement was populated by tropical marine fauna, mollusks, fishes, corals, arthropods, it remained like that even after their human colonizers disappeared, but just 50 million years something happened, a large cosmic event disrupted the orbit of the planets, including Scelloc, through it did not throw the planet out of the system, it left it at the edge of the habitable zone, and in a period of 10 million years this paradise was sealed into a tomb of ice, it was too fast that the majority of animals that lived depending of the warm climate perished with just a handful of established deep water forms that evolved to thrive in the dark managed to support the change, only small cnidarians and sea slugs survived the cataclysm, and for the next 140 million years they will claim up from the depths of the ocean to the roof of the giant ice caps.

The global trapped sea of Scelloc thankfully remained liquid thanks to the geological activity of the planet, the active tectonic activity underwater keeps these warm enough to host the trapped life.

Near the hydrothermal vents forms often large fields of large unique polyp towers that extend their tentacles to alongside smaller Shipworm-like derived slugs that remains sedentary feeding on the chemicals or in the polyps themselves, around them some slow feeding snail like forms gathering the material and forming rudimentary shells and even scallop like forms that abandoned their slug shape and adopted a bivalve like form with large starfish-like slow polyp that now have evolved free forms.

On the endless seabed there is a variety of filter and detritu feeders that eats the sea snow that cyclically keeps falling from the upper regions or the nutrients that accumulates in the sand, many still nudibranchs and snail like forms that are migrating to new vents, many jellyfish like polyps; upper the seabed are floating small and large nudibranchs that either developed their "cerata" as floating organs or active squid and even like forms that can extend ovr the vast abyss up to the roof of the icecaps, some even able to glimpse the light on the thinnest ice parts and even melted holes on the equator.

This world will likely unfreeze from its perpetual snowball state in the far future when its star increases its luminosity, but until then for the next hundreds of millions of years it will remain sealed within the ice.

#speculative evolution #future evolution #terraformed world #seed world #nudibranch #spectember

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thedisablednaturalist · 2 months

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what is your favorite aquatic invertibrate?

THIS is a loaded question. I've kept this in my inbox for a while cause there's SO MANY it's hard to choose. I'm most interested in mollusca and crustacea but those are still large categories.

My favorite mollusk is Dirona albolineata, the frosted alabaster nudibranch. Absolutely gorgeous and come in my favorite color.

I pretty much love all nudibranches though. My second favorite would have to be sea butterflies, they're so weird!

And of course the animal crossing famous Clione limacina or sea angel

Academically, I'm currently researching freshwater mussels for our reintroduction project. Mussels may not be as flashy as nudibranchs, but they are extremely important for improving water quality in freshwater habitats. It's hard to choose a favorite, but one I've researched the most and have grown fondly of is Alasmidonta varicosa, the brook floater. We are hoping to eventually reintroduce it to it's previous native range. Fun fact, when you pick them up out of the water, they stick their "tongue" (foot) out.

I literally had the species name written on my giant whiteboard in the office for a few months so my boss would keep seeing it since I really wanted us to use it as a flagship species to design our reintroduction project around. Fast forward and we've gotten a grant and things are progressing nicely.

Anyway on the crustacea side that's an even harder choice. I'm always excited to see aquatic isopods and scuds. I'm probably most fond of Malacostraca (amphipods, isopods, decapods, etc.) and Branchiopoda (clam, fairy, and tadpole shrimp, and water fleas). Do not make me pick one I am unable to. I will say I have a particular soft spot for crayfish as they are the organisms I've had the most one-on-one time with (I literally have a pet crayfish named Mr Pinchy). I just love anything with pinchers (⁠ʃ⁠ƪ⁠＾⁠3⁠＾⁠）≧〔゜゜〕≦

First crayfish I ever held doing it's little defensive stance of Shake Em Like You Just Don't Care. Just take a look at it's mouth! The mouthparts are so cool! I love watching Mr. Pinchy eat.

My favorite macroinvertebrate would hands down be Corydalus, aka Hellgrammites, which are the larval form of Dobsonflies. I have yet to see an adult dobsonfly in person, but have been told they're terrifying and not very nice. We shall see about that. Hellgrammites are simply angry pathetic overdramatic babies and while people say they bite I've held plenty and never been bit. They will absolutely go for the other bugs in the tray so you do have to keep them in a separate container. We've lost a couple of caddisfly larvae to the jaws of the mighty hellgrammite.

Just look at it! Here's a video where I'm trying to get a good shot of it's gills (those frilly things on its underside). They roll into a defensive ball which is so endearing. I also love anything that can curl into a ball. I think they're absolutely adorable but most people tend to disagree with me ಥ⁠‿⁠ಥ

TDLR I love all aquatic invertebrates so very much. I didn't even get into shrimp or coral or starfish! They make me so happy I actually have to limit how much I read about them in a day because my emotions get too big and cause me to become hyper (which is a bad combo for fibromyalgia). I'm not great at remembering information so I get to constantly relearn and rediscover things which is a blessing and a curse. This also makes taxonomy especially hard for me so let me know if I messed up somewhere.

#wrenfea.ask #thank you for your question!#sorry this was so long #I FUCKING FOUND IT #IT WAS BURIED

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