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creatureimages · 4 months

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every time i see a bluebottle or a blue sea dragon posted online all the comments are like "erm... can't that kill you? what the scallop?" my brother in christ venom doesnt always kill you sometimes it's just oof ouch ow. anyway heres a glaucus atlanticus

#blue sea dragon #mollusca #gastropoda #nudibranchia #cladobranchia #glaucidae #glaucus atlanticus #same goes for redditors who cry rat lungworm at the sight of a planarian #dont eat it. wash your hands if you touch it. thats it

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birdblues · 2 months

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Flabellina affinis

#nudibranch #Flabellina affinis #Mollusca #Gastropoda #Heterobranchia #Nudibranchia #Cladobranchia #Fionoidea #Flabellinidae #Flabellina #upl

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animalids · 4 years

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Blue dragon nudibranch (Pteraeolidia ianthina)

Photo by Loh Kok Sheng

#blue dragon #nudibranch #pteraeolidia ianthina #pteraeolidia #facelinidae #aeolidioidea #aeolidida #cladobranchia #dexiarchia #nudibranchia #nudipleura #euthyneura #heterobranchia #gastropoda #mollusca #lophotrochozoa

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allmypantsareonfire-blog · 7 years

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The Glaucus atlanticusis is known as the “sea swallow” or the “blue dragon” and store nematocysts from the jellyfish they feed on, giving them the ability to defend themselves from predators. Sea swallows are actually pelagic, meaning they swim upside down and allow the currents to carry their bodies.

clade Heterobranchia clade Euthyneura clade Nudipleura clade Nudibranchia clade Dexiarchia clade Cladobranchia clade Aeolidida

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chericecornner · 7 years

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Glaucus Atlanticus ( The Blue Dragon from Pokemon!!!)

These sea slugs are pelagic

This organism looks just like a Pokemon character. Glaucus Atlanticus aka Blue Dragon is very beautiful but also life threating. The Blue Dragons grow up to 3 centimeters long. They float at the surface of the water and on their backs for camouflage. Their belly is blue to blend in with the blue water. And their camouflage for their back blends in with the brightness of the surface of the water. Blue Dragons’ taxonomy classification:

Kingdom: Animalia

Phylum: Mollusca

Class: Gastropoda

(unranked):

clade Heterobranchia

clade Euthyneura

clade Nudipleura

clade Nudibranchia

clade Dexiarchia

clade Cladobranchia

clade Aeolidida

Superfamily: Aeolidioidea

Family: Glaucidae

Genus: Glaucus

Species: G. Atlanticus

1 “These sea slugs are pelagic...Glaucus Atlanticus feeds on other pelagic creatures” such as poisonous creatures. The poison doesn’t affect the Blue Dragons. They the poison for their own use. “ They are known to prey on the dangerously venomous Portuguese man o' war (Physalia physalis); the by-the-wind-sailor (Velella velella); the blue button (Porpita porpita); and the violet snail, Janthina janthina.” Blue Dragons have 1 “been recorded from the east and south coasts of South Africa, European waters, the east coast of Australia, and Mozambique.” “[T]hey live in warm temperate climates in the Southern Pacific, and in circumtropical and Lusitanian environments...”

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The wing-like arms/legs are called appendages. Blue Dragons have six appendages. The finger-like branches are called cerata. Their cerata are able to sting, more than likely due to the fact that they eat venomous organisms. 1“Glaucus is a hermaphrodite, having both male and female reproductive organs.” 1“After mating, both animals produce egg strings.”