SQUIDS

Squids are Cephalopods in the order Teuthida, which has 
about 304 species. Like all Cephalopods, squids have a head, arms, bilaterally symmetrical, fins, and mantle. Like cuttlefish squids have 8 arms arranged in pairs of two, most of the time longer. Squids are strong swimmers, some can even `fly` through the water doing a long glide or propels themselves through the water fast.


 Squids are in the class Cephalopoda, subclass Coleoidea, and order Teuthida, which has two major suborders, Myopsina and Oegopsina. Teuthida is the biggest cephalopod order including 300 species and 29 families.

The order Teuthida is a member of the suborder Decapodiformes (in Greek meaning `ten legs`). Two other orders of Decapodiformes cephalopods are squids, recognizable for their long slimy arms and elongated body. They are bobtail squids in the order Sepiolida and the rams horn squid Spirulida. The vampire squid is more related to octopuses than squids.


Members of Cephalopoda:

Nautiloids: nautiluses
Ammonoidea: Ammonites
Belemnoidea: extinct belemnoids
Spirulida: ram`s horn squid
Sepiida: cuttlefish
Sepiolida: bobtail squids
Teuthida: squid
Octopoda: octopus
Vampyromorphida: vampire squid
Loliginidae: inshore, calamari, grass squid
Ancistrocheiridae: sharpear enope squid
Architeuthidae: giant squid
Batoteuthidae: bush-club squid
Chtenopterygidae: comb-finned squids
Cranchiidae: glass squids
Gonatiae: armhook squid
Histioteuthidae: jewel squid
Joubiniteuthidae: Joubin`s squid
Lepidoteuthidae: Grimaldi scaled squid
Magnapinnidae: bigfin squid
Mastigoteuthidae: whip-lash squid
Ommastrephidae: flying squid

LICHEN

Lichens are composite organisms rising from wood, algae and dead leaves stuff like that. Lichens may look like plants, but they are actual fungi, as they use spores instead of seeds and have leafless branches as well as no flowers, as all plants (besides conifers) have flowers, and lichens don't have flowers. 

SHARKS

Sharks are a group of fish characterized by their cartilaginous skeleton, five to seven gills on the side of their head, and pectoral fins not fused to the head. Sharks now are classified in the genus Selachimorpha and are closely related to stingrays.  

 

BEANS

 
Beans is a common name for large plant seeds in pods consumed by humans and animals in the family Fabaceae.


Beans were originally referred to as seeds from the broad, or fava bean, but was later expanded to include members of the New World genus Phaseolus, such as the common bean and runner bean, and also later included the related genus Vigna. The word is now referred to other Old world plants such as chickpeas, soybeans, peas, vetches, and lupins. 


The bean was also used as a synonym of pulse, an edible vegetable, though pulse is not related to beans, as it is a crop grown for its dry grain. The term beans exclude plants that are used for oil extractions, (such as soy-beans and peanuts) as well as plants that are used for sowing (such as clover and alfalfa). Crops such as snap peas and snow peas, and so on, are not considered beans because they are a vegetable crop. According to the United Nations Food and Agriculture the word bean should only be used for members of the family Phaseolus, however a strict consensus definition has proven in the past that beans from other families (such as azuki bean, black gram, green gram, and moth bean) were classified in the family Phaseolus and later reclassified.  
  

POLYCHAETE WORMS

Polychaete worms are scale worms found in marine habitats. These worms are sometimes called 'bristle worms' because they often bear spines. These worms can be found in small rivers, all the way to the deepest depths of the ocean, as in the Challenger Deep expedition, a small 2-3cm polychaete worm was found right at the bottom of the Mariana trench. There are more than 100,000 species of polychaete worms. Common representatives of polychaete worms are the lugworm, sandworm, and clamworm. Only 2% (168 species) of the polychaetes are found in fresh water. Polychaetes range in size from 2cm to 3m.    

BEETLES

 
Beetles are a group of insects from the family Coleoptera. About 25% of earth's life is beetles, and only about 40% of the beetles on earth are discovered. There are 400,000 known species, and estimated about 1,000,000 beetles in total, leaving about 60% more to discover. The distribution of beetles is basically worldwide, besides polar regions and oceans, but everywhere else you can find beetles. They often feed on plants, fungi, and dead humus (debris on forest floor), and some feed on other invertebrates. some even feed on birds and mammals. Some species of beetles are pests, feeding off crops and destroying forests. But others, such as ladybirds or ladybugs (family Coccinellidae), feed on beetles and other invertebrates that destroy crops and forests, helping control the number of dead trees or destroyed crops.    

CONCH

A conch is a type of marine shell. The family of
conchs is called Strombidae.

BOLETES

Boletes are mushrooms with no gills, instead of gills it has pores that contain spores, some bracket fungus also have pores, but still have difference in DNA.
 

MOLD 

A mold is a fungus that grows on old plant materials, such as old fruit and old wood. Molds can form large colonies where the growth of hyphae forms discoloration, and a fuzzy mushy texture, and a fuzzy look. They play important roles in nature. 


There are millions of species of mold with even different ways of life. Most need moist damp surfaces and some grow in aquatic habitats. Like fungi, molds get their nutrient from organic matter, such as wood, other fungi, and dead leaves.    

                                                             

GULPER EEL

The gulper eel is a deep sea eel with an expandable stomache, able to swallow prey twice its size. It has a bioluminescent lure to attract fish just like the anglerfish. it is found at depths down to 3,000m (10,000f).

VENUS FLYTRAP

The venus flytrap is a carnivorous plant belonging to the family Droseraceae. It lives in subtropical wetlands in south and north Carolina, and on the coast of the united states.
 

COMB JELLIES 


Comb jellies, or Ctenophores, are related to jellyfish, but are not true jellyfish. Comb jellies are unique because they have a unique feature- tiny combs (or cilia) that propel them through the water. They are also the largest animals that move with cilia.

JELLYFISH

Jellyfish or jellies, are jellylike invertebrates in the phylum Cnidaria. They are free swimming animals that contain an umbrella like gelatinous bell with trailing stinging tenticals. Jellyfish are found world wide, from shallow waters to the deepest depths. Jellyfish roamed the oceans for about 500 million years, possibly 700 million years, being the longest lived multi-organ animal.  


The popular English name for these creatures are jellyfish, and other creatures that have a gelatinous body, like comb jellies (or Ctenophores)  

MUSHROOMS

A mushroom, or toad stool, is a fleshy, spore bearing, fruitbody of a fungus, usually growing above ground on soil, or on its food source.


The standard for the name 'mushroom' is usually meaning the cultivated mushroom (the most common used mushroom in markets)  or fungi with a cap (head) a stalk (or stem) and gills (gill like slits which contain spores).   

EELS

An eel is a skinny thin fish in the family Anguilliformes. Most eels are predators, like the gulper eel, preys on passing copepods. The word 'eel' is used for other elongated thin fish too, like electric eels and spiny eels, that are not from the family Anguilliformes.    

BLOBFISH

The blobfish is a deep-sea fish in the family Psychrolutidae. It lives in deep waters off the coast of Australia, Tasmania, and New Zealand. Blobfish are usually shorter than 30cm. They are found at depths of 600- 1,200m. 

OCTOPUS

An octopus (or octopi, or octopodes) is a cephalopod mollusk in the order Octopoda. It has 2 eyes and eight arms (hence name octo, meaning eight) and like other cephalopods it is bilaterally symmetric. The octopus also has a beak right in the center of the tenticals. The octopus does not have an external or internal skeleton, though some species have shells like the nautilus.  

BIOLUMINESCENCE

Bioluminescence is a glowing bacterial reaction, that causes glowing or flashing, as deep-sea creatures (such as anglerfish and dragonfish) and fireflies use bioluminescence. Also a type of  mushroom called 'the jack 'o lantern' uses bioluminescence. 

ANGLERFISH

Anglerfish are fish from the order lophiiformes, they are bony fish that are predatory, using a fleshy stalk growing from the head, as a bioluminescent lure. Anglerfish occur basically worldwide, some are pelagic (living in the open ocean), and some are benthic (living on the bottom of the ocean), and some live just along the continental shelf. Pelagic forms are laterally compressed, where benthic forms are often extremely dorsoventrally compressed.


Fossils have shown that anglerfish lived in the depths of the ocean since 130 million years ago, ranging in color from brown to dark red, and sizes varied from 8.9cm to more than 1 meter, and weights of up 100 lb.


Most adult female anglerfish have a bioluminescent organ called the esca. The organ is used for luring fish to the anglerfish as the lure looks like bioluminescent prey, the prey would come to the lure and the anglerfish would eat the prey. The lure is also used for attracting males, which then attach to the female for the rest of its life providing nutrients for the anglerfish to produce. The source of this glow is from tiny microscopic bacteria which glow.