Jo The Goat

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it deleted my character description when i made this post, and I can't be bothered to write it all out again right now.

[patheticmosasaur1]

today's invertebrate.............umbotectum boehmigi

she's always inexplicably covered with a thick layer of black goo, and she has some mild drinking problems

everytime she goes to the bar she gets the goo on everything and everyone and it makes them all really sad because now the expensive drinks they've paid for are all goopy and rotten and toxic and then they can't get drunk anymore because the sludge neutralised any semblance of alcohol in their drinks

the only person who's not bothered by this is umbotectum boehmigi, because she's gotten very used to it

you should be like her. you should get used to drinking toxic slop. everyday. drink the sludge. just like her. it's very healthy. trust me

glorpiness rating: 🔼🔽🔼🔽🔼🔽🔼🔽🔼🔽🔼🔽🔼🔽🔼🔽🔼🔽🔼🔽

photographed by Moses Michelsohn (pecosvalleydiamond), uploaded to iNaturalist! link to original observation

I really like hammerhead worms. this one might be my favourite though. just look at those lobes and the colouration!!!!

[oarfjsh]

pupy

[jo-the-goat]

sniffa snoof snoof.

seems they smell something good.

[patheticmosasaur1]

today's invertebrate.................rhynchodemus bromelicola

she has a little snoot that she uses to smell and poke things, which is her primary way of sensing the world! it often gets a little uncomfortable (imagine being repeatedly touched by a wet noodle) but nobody gets mad at her because we all know that most of the time she can't see what she's touching. her eyes are a bit limited after all......

glorpiness rating: a worm???? om the string??? boioioioioioioing

photographed by thomas_oswald. link to original photos (iNaturalist)

[val-the-flatworm]

Why are my followers posting this

[ashs-reviews]

53, flat worm

[val-the-flatworm]

Check out this art of me someone made

i look so cute

[patheticmosasaur1]

today's invertebrate..................transversotrema hafniensis (cercaria)

a little guy! a shmoooplefloops even. a wee phlibaboo perhaps. a wungus too if you will

and he plays the tiniest string instrument I have ever seen. I can't even tell what it is simply because of how inconceivably small it is!

it sounds like what you'd get if you poured a big bucket of water in a cave, but it also sounds almost like a mucus net flopping in the wind, if said wind was pink and made of heavy smoke and flowers. it's just incomprehensible!

glorpiness rating: so glorp 🥺

source (researchgate) I cropped the image a bit, just to focus more on the cercaria I guess

creative commons? idk

also here's what the adult looks like (same pic)

kinda looks like an alien mothership to me, especially with the illustration on the research paper above

[jo-the-goat]

he's just a lil guy

[ashs-reviews]

63, let my little sister pick the color palette for this flatworm

[twighats]

Wtf is going on with flatworms

[irraydiate]

Planarian Miku

[val-the-flatworm]

Wait until these guys learn about dugesia

[pinecone-sees-stars]

My favorite worm phyla is Platyhelminthes

[sitting-on-me-bum]

Polyclad flatworms (Pseudobiceros sp.) pair, on seabed preparing to mate, Raja Ampat, Indonesia, Pacific Ocean.

Photographer: David Hall

[nocturnal-stims]

Flatworms are tiny invertebrates that live in fresh or salt water, depending on species. They are bilaterally symmetrical and dorsoventrally flattened, giving them flexible, ribbon-like bodies. Most flatworm are less than 50 mm long and are very thin and delicate. They glide across the ocean floor on hair-like cilia, feeding on dead (or dying) marine animals.

🪱 Roamtheocean on IG

[bagelsbites]

one of my favourite things in bug life

[patheticmosasaur1]

tonight's invertebrate................pseudogeoplana reticulata

fun halloween fact! on every october many people get a sudden obsession with space and then they go missing after a few days¡

this unlucky helminth right here is one of many who were taken this year by the uncaring vastness of the cosmos. the image you see is what was last seen of them before they went missing

.............spookiness rating: 40.4% the stars also get bluer each year. what

photographed by José Grau de Puerto Montt (CC BY-SA 3.0)

this worm is very beautifully coloured!