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Top ten most beautiful and strange marine creatures

Finger Coral distribution: from the Red Sea to the Pacific Ocean, with a water depth of 10 meters. Extra micro: the appearance of the group is ivory or bright gray, and the fat meat feet develop upward into the body and blunt finger forks. Habit: like to grow on coral reefs with strong water flow.

10. Bulb Ascidians

Introduction light bulb sea squirts is a transparent marine creature with a cylindrical appearance. Most live in 20-50 meters of seawater. Its body is attached to shells, algae or vertical rock walls. Its body has yellow or white lines. You can see the movement of its internal organs. It looks like a light bulb from a distance, so it is named light bulb sea squirt.

9. Christmas tree worm

Introduction Christmas tree worms (Christmas tree worms), spirobranchus bamboo, are magnificent double helix feathers of Christmas tree shaped serpulid tubular worms used for feeding and breathing. These worms are one of the most widely recognized sedentary polychaetes. They are easily found in many colors, including orange, yellow, blue and white, although they have an average span of only 3.8 cm. Due to their shape and color, beautiful and colorful feathers, or tentacles, they are used to passively prey on suspended particles and plankton in the water. Characteristic feathers are also used for breathing. Although feathers are visible, most of these worms are anchored in their caves and they drill into live calcareous corals. Christmas tree worms are very sensitive. They will quickly retract their caves in the slightest contact or interference. Usually, they will reappear slowly after a minute, and then fully extend their feathers in the water.

8. Bubble coral

Brief introduction to bubble coral [English name] plerogyra sinuosa belongs to coral molluscs, which are distributed along the coasts of the Pacific, Atlantic and Caribbean with a water depth of less than 30 meters. Special micro: bubble coral is very beautiful. They need light for expansion and expansion. When they open during the day, coral insects are white or yellow bubbles. During the day, they are crystal clear and unfold one by one, looking like bubbles, pearls or grapes. When you are discouraged, you can see that they have a hard skeleton. That's the name of bubble coral. Bubble coral will stretch out a tentacle like anemone to prey at night. It has highly toxic thorn cells. It must be handled and collected very carefully, and they are very fragile and will break when touched.

7. Large flower brain coral

The color is rich and colorful, with grayish green, reddish brown, light blue and other colors. It looks like the human brain. Most of them live on the surface of reefs, and some live on the sediment or pebble ground 40 meters below the water surface. They feed on plankton.

6. Cup coral

Cup coral is a beautiful coral produced in the deep sea. Cup coral is not a species that grows on reefs. It lives on zooplankton. Their translucent tentacles stretch out at night. Cup coral is well known as the flower of the sea and is famous for its bright colors and shapes. Their most common shapes are cups and plates.

5. Leather mushroom coral

Like other corals, leather mushroom corals also have many colors, including brown, cream and crimson. This beautiful mushroom coral looks like folded leather. At night and when eating in the water, they expose pedicel like tentacles. They are colonies of marine animals, and marine life provides them with nutrients.

4. Finger Coral

Finger Coral distribution: from the Red Sea to the Pacific Ocean, with a water depth of 10 meters. Extra micro: the appearance of the group is ivory or bright gray, and the fat meat feet develop upward into the body and blunt finger forks. Habit: like to grow on coral reefs with strong water flow.

3. Feather duster worm

The tube of the worm's head has two crowns, which are the organs for it to breathe and eat. These things hidden in the tube are small but sensitive and can detect danger. Beautiful red, orange or brown sponges wander around the worm and add a bit of beauty to it.

2. Pleurotus ostreatus

Introduction to Pleurotus ostreatus, these mushrooms are scattered in the ocean like the paint in the painter's paint plate. They have charming colors, red, orange, purple and green. Red Pleurotus ostreatus is the rarest and most precious. Different colors of Pleurotus ostreatus need different care. Green Pleurotus ostreatus is a kind of mushroom coral. Its surface is spotted and full of vitality.

1. Syringa Hydra

One of the two main body types of Cnidaria (also known as coelentera) (the other is jellyfish). A single (e.g. anemone) or group (e.g. coral) fixed to an object. The upper end of the Hydra body is hollow and cylindrical, with tentacles around the mouth and barbed sacs on the tentacles. Tentacle predation evacuation entrance. The lower end of the Hydra body is used for fixation. The body wall is composed of ectoderm and endoderm. The corresponding body type is the reproductive body, which is the two alternating body types of Coelenterata. The class Anthozoa of spiny animals has only Hydra; Hydrozoa, Scyphozoa and Cubozoa show alternation between Hydrozoa and medusa.