Two colored star coral (Dipsastraea speciosa) in Pulau Bangka, North Sulawesi, Indonesia
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Two colored star coral (Dipsastraea speciosa) in Pulau Bangka, North Sulawesi, Indonesia
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Rock flower anemone!
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Taxonomy Tournament: Cnidarian Finale
Hydrozoa. This class is of predatory cnidarians, some of which are colonial, incllude hydras and the Portuguese Man o' War
Hexacorallia. This class is made up of aquatic animals with 6-fold symmetry. It includes stony corals and sea anemones
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Hydrozoa
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Giant Green Anemone (Anthopleura xanthogrammica) (c) SaritaWolf - please do not repost
Deltocyathus rotulus
A species of stony coral found in the Pacific and Indian Oceans.
image by 戴昌鳳
Ringed plate coral (Pachyseris sp.) at Pulau Bangka in Indonesia
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ACTUALLY catching up with Invertober, days 10 and 12 — 15: magnificent sea anemone, Japanese spider crab, early bumblebee, redwood sideband snail, and comet moth!
Reference for the bumblebee
[Image descriptions: Five digital drawings of different invertebrates. All of them have the common name written above and the taxonomic classification (sans kingdom) written below. The background is light blue for the first two and light green on the rest.
Image 1: A magnificent sea anemone. It has a wide pink body and dull green tentacles, and is roughly fan-shaped. Text below: Cnidaria • Hexacorallia • Actiniaria • Stichodactylidae • Heteractis magnifica
Image 2: A Japanese spider crab. It has a red body and very long red-and-white legs. Text below: Arthropoda • Malacostraca • Decapoda • Inachidae • Macrocheira kaempferi
Image 3: An early bumblebee. It is yellow with two large black spots instead of stripes. Text below: Arthropoda • Insecta • Hymenoptera • Apidae • Bombus pratorum
Image 4: A redwood sideband snail. Its shell is dark purple on the outside and light yellow on the inside with a light purple rim, and its body is dark brown. Text below: Mollusca • Gastropoda • Stylomattophora • Xanthonychidae • Monadenia infumata
Image 5: A comet moth. It has greenish-yellow wings with brown eyespots and dark brown edges. The top wings have wavy and dotted markings, and the hind wings have long “tails” (brown with greenish-yellow tips) coming off of them. The body and head are yellow, and it has wide, feather-like brown antennae. Text below: Arthropoda • Insecta • Lepidoptera • Saturniidae • Argema mittrei
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