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Seas and oceans are home to several million species of amazing creatures. This rich biodiversity is truly admirable, because under water you can meet the inhabitants of all colors, shapes and sizes. Some of them seem creepy and dangerous, but others admire its beauty. In this collection boasts some of the most spectacular marine creatures. No space can not yet be compared with what beauty lies in the depths of the oceans of the Earth, and it is time to see it in person.
25. Mandarin fish
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This colorful fish lives in tropical waters in the West Pacific ocean. Tangerine is a small coral fish is elongated with a length up to 6 cm Fame it has acquired for its intense color and unusual shape, therefore it is even sometimes called “psychedelic Mandarin”. It is very popular as an aquarium pet, but very finicky to keep in captivity and often die from starvation, refusing to eat store-bought foods.
24. Ceriantharia
Photo: Bernard Dupont / flickr
Before you coral polyp living in various parts of the world, mainly in subtropical waters. As a larva ceriantharia usually lives within the plankton, and, as adults, prefer to burrow in the ground and hunts with a mouth end with a lot of sensitive tentacles. This animal is very different in fluorescent colours and colour combinations, and is considered a popular aquarium pet.
23. The language of Flamingo or cyphoma thick
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Widely common among the reefs of the Caribbean sea and the Atlantic ocean, the language of Flamingo is brightly painted shellfish feeding on toxic polyps. When ciroma absorbs poison their prey, she becomes toxic, but her death is not threatened.
22. Blue Tang
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One of the 70 species of fish-surgeon blue Tang lives in coastal waters, on coral reefs and among rocks or algae along the shoreline from new York to Brazil, and even found far to the East near the island of ascension. Fish is known for its spikes that resemble a surgical scalpel, for which this species got its unusual name.
21. Shrimp-mantis
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This crustacean lives in the warm waters of the Pacific and Indian oceans, and is considered one of the most attractive and colorful species of sea animals. This shrimp is very unusual and extremely intricate eyes. The mantis shrimp sees in the optical, ultraviolet and infrared spectrum, and can convert polarized light, what helps him millions of light-sensitive cells.
20. French angelfish or scalars
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Scalars is found in the West Atlantic ocean, Straits in the Mexican and in the Caribbean. This amazing tropical fish is easily distinguished from the other inhabitants of the underwater Kingdom in dark color with bright yellow stripes.
19. Leafy sea dragon or sea horse-the ragpicker
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This ravishing creature is found in tropical waters of the Indian ocean from the coastline of Australia. A favorite habitat of the sheet (sometimes leafy) sea dragon coral reefs and shallow water, where enough heat but not too hot, and there are all conditions for camouflage while hunting and to hide from predators. Horse-the ragpicker grows up to 20 cm in length, and is under threat of destruction due to industrial waste and poaching – it became too popular among lovers of aquariums.
18. Sea spider
Photo: Sylke Rohrlach / flickr
Sea spiders are in no way associated with ground, and are a much more simple form of life. These small marine arthropods live in almost all parts of the world and most seas. In the world they are found almost as often as their land namesakes.
17. Formosa jellyfish or Medusa “flower hat”
Photo: Chris Favero / flickr
This animal is very similar to regular jellyfish, but in fact it belongs to the class of cnidarian invertebrates, while the scyphoid jellyfish refers to flowing down. Medusa “flower hat” is found in the West Pacific ocean in the coastal waters of Japan. The beauty of Formosa at the same time fascinating and dangerous, because it is better not to get acquainted, because this animal can be very painful sting.
16. Crab-harlequin
Photo: Bernard Dupont / flickr
Crab-harlequin (Lissocarcinus laevis) has attracted our attention amazing color and most often found near coral polyps coastal areas or in the middle of the rocky reefs of the Indo-Pacific region. It is noteworthy that the last pair of legs had fused into a single fin.
15. Benghajsa fish-cardinal
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This adorable fish lives in the warm tropical waters and is easily recognized by the silver color with vertical black stripes. Unfortunately, the cardinal refers to endangered species, and today, its habitat has shrunk to the coastal waters of the Indonesian island Banggai.
14. Spotted eagle ray
Photo: Brian Gratwicke / flickr
Flat body shaped this impressive Stingray reaches up to 3 meters in width, making it the largest among orskov, with the exception only of a giant sea devil (4 to 4.5 m). The spotted eagle ray is very active, swims for his life large distances to hunt marine invertebrates and small fish.
13. Clown fish
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She’s orange amphiprion, she anemonefish. Clown-anemone is famous for its orange and white striped pattern, and is considered to be one of the most recognizable reef fish. Amphiprion grows to 11 cm in length, and his favorite refuge – sea anemones, coral polyps squad. To successfully hide from predators among the stinging tentacles of the anemone fish-clown plays the part of a mucus polyp and enters into a symbiotic relationship with the sea flowing down.
12. Shrimp-harlequin
Photo: Chad Ordelheide / wikimedia
Shrimp-harlequin popular aquarium pet. This arthropod native to tropical waters of the Indian and Pacific oceans, and it is easily recognizable by the white calf with large light blue spots. Males shrimp-harlequins smaller than the female of the species.
11. Blue dragon
Photo: Sylke Rohrlach / flickr
Blue dragon is a type of conch, and a representative of the detachment of golosemennyh Gastropoda (snails). It is small in size and grows only up to 3 cm in length. Blue dragon is found in many seas of the temperate and tropical zones.
10. Fish discus
Photo: Biotopica, criadero de peces disco / Wikimedia
One of the most beautiful tropical fish in the world lives in the Amazon basin in South America. Expressive form and vivid colouration of the discus caused her a great popularity among lovers of aquariums. People discus even earned the nickname “king of aquariums”.
9. Actinium Venus flytrap
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Nicknamed in honor of a plant bearing the same name, this sea anemone has earned this comparison because they have similar digestive mechanism. Marine Venus flytrap is a major deep-water polyp, which hunts by grabbing prey with its mouth, when she swims in live “trap.” Bright color of the sea anemones deter predators, but perfectly attracts the smallest of underwater creatures.
8. Royal starfish
Photo: Julie Worthy Photography
One of the most outstanding sea stars living at a depth of 20-30 m near the continental shelf on the Western side of the Atlantic. Sea star is a carnivore and feeds on molluscs, which it catches with their hands in the rays, throwing their prey in the mouth.
7. Slug species Berghia Coerulescens
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Naked sea snails Berghia Coerulescens is a species of sea slug that lives in the Central and Western Mediterranean and in the North Atlantic ocean. This underwater animal is charming in color grows up to 7 cm in length, and is little studied by biologists.
6. Lionfish-Zebra
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It is also called fish-Zebra or striped lionfish. Lionfish-Zebra lives on reefs and in the midst of the rocky crevices of the Indo-Pacific region, although for some time he was to meet in the tropical waters of other oceans around the world. In some countries they are eaten, but striped lionfish is much better known among lovers of aquariums, rather than among gourmets.
5. Flat-faced seahorse
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Flat-faced seahorse – inhabitant of the Mediterranean and North Atlantic waters. This animal is of medium size and grows up to 13 cm in length. Mediterranean seahorse likes to muddy the shallow waters, estuaries and the thickets of marine algae.
4. Lagonoy of triggerfish or triggerfish
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This remarkable tropical fish originally from the Indo-Pacific region and prefers to hide on the reef. Lagunovoy of triggerfish is sometimes called a Picasso triggerfish, and in Hawaii the locals call it “humuhumunukunukuapuaa”. Read everything without hesitation?
3. The green sea turtle
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Soup or green turtle lives in tropical and subtropical coastal waters around the world. It is a large and heavy animal with a wide and smooth shell. Green turtle deservedly received the title of the world’s largest turtle, as some members of this species weigh up to 320 kg.
2. Nudibranchs Phyllidia Babai
Photo: Nick Hobgood / wikimedia
This golosemennye a species of sea slug has bright color and is found in Pacific waters in the area of Papua New Guinea, South Korea and Australia.
1. Starfish “crown of thorns”
Photo: Jon Hanson / flickr
This cute inhabitant of the bottom of the Indo-Pacific eats coral reefs. Despite its attractive appearance, this sea star is considered a serious pest for its voracity, and pose a great danger especially for the Great Barrier reef. To humans this animal is also not the best one, because the injections are painful and are quite toxic. Crown of thorns is very different colors from deep red to orange, green or shades of blue.