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nuka-rockit:
teenage-sxumbag:
nuka-rockit:
hey
hey did you know sea cucumbers. or like, slugs. theyre
thr stylish af
I mean look:
look at this. look at this sense of fashion
that feel for color
JUST LOOK AT THAT MOUSTACHE. you WISH you were this lit
a FIERY BOY
ROCKIN’ THOSE DOTS. spots. dots. ROUNDS
BI G SPI KE Y
the ocean is so fucking cool i wish i was a sea lump like those bros
I might be mistaken here and someone inform me if I am, but I’m fairly certain that all but the last one are actually nudibranchs, which are a type of mollusc which sheds its shell early on. Nudibranchs can range in sizes (from 4mm - 60 cm) and can have many different colours and details. As a scuba diver it is always amazing to see the different variations of nudies as they are really good at blending in with coral and such because of their small size and bright colours (especially in tropical areas). The last one is indeed a sea cucumber. They can grown anywhere between 2 cm to 3 meters (I have had one that was about a 1 and a half meters long thrown at me underwater and it was terrifying). They eat algae, minuscule sea critters and waste products that drop to the bottom of the ocean, and the they poop sand. They are essentially the earthworms of the ocean.
While nudies are commonly known as sea slugs, ‘many sea slugs belong to several taxonomic groups which are not closely related to nudibranchs’ (source). And sea cucumbers altogether are not really classified as sea slugs at all and the only reason they people know them as sea slugs is because of old Japanese haikus that have been (poorly) translated to english.
OP is absolutely right though. The ocean is so fucking cool! There are literally thousands of species of nudies and cucumbers and all of them are super unique. I have done almost 100 dives and have never seen a nudibranch that looks the same as another.
oh man dude thats some really cool trivia thank you!! i love to learn Things
also i am completely hammered so im not surprised i got the details wrong. i just think the ocean wrigglies are fabulous
also nudibranch. nudy
ᵗʰᵉʸ ⁿᵃᵏᵉʸ
Little boi and (slightly) big boi
Glaucidae
nuka-rockit:
teenage-sxumbag:
nuka-rockit:
hey
hey did you know sea cucumbers. or like, slugs. theyre
thr stylish af
I mean look:
look at this. look at this sense of fashion
that feel for color
JUST LOOK AT THAT MOUSTACHE. you WISH you were this lit
a FIERY BOY
ROCKIN’ THOSE DOTS. spots. dots. ROUNDS
BI G SPI KE Y
the ocean is so fucking cool i wish i was a sea lump like those bros
I might be mistaken here and someone inform me if I am, but I’m fairly certain that all but the last one are actually nudibranchs, which are a type of mollusc which sheds its shell early on. Nudibranchs can range in sizes (from 4mm - 60 cm) and can have many different colours and details. As a scuba diver it is always amazing to see the different variations of nudies as they are really good at blending in with coral and such because of their small size and bright colours (especially in tropical areas). The last one is indeed a sea cucumber. They can grown anywhere between 2 cm to 3 meters (I have had one that was about a 1 and a half meters long thrown at me underwater and it was terrifying). They eat algae, minuscule sea critters and waste products that drop to the bottom of the ocean, and the they poop sand. They are essentially the earthworms of the ocean.
While nudies are commonly known as sea slugs, ‘many sea slugs belong to several taxonomic groups which are not closely related to nudibranchs’ (source). And sea cucumbers altogether are not really classified as sea slugs at all and the only reason they people know them as sea slugs is because of old Japanese haikus that have been (poorly) translated to english.
OP is absolutely right though. The ocean is so fucking cool! There are literally thousands of species of nudies and cucumbers and all of them are super unique. I have done almost 100 dives and have never seen a nudibranch that looks the same as another.
oh man dude thats some really cool trivia thank you!! i love to learn Things
also i am completely hammered so im not surprised i got the details wrong. i just think the ocean wrigglies are fabulous
also nudibranch. nudy
ᵗʰᵉʸ ⁿᵃᵏᵉʸ
Little boi and (slightly) big boi
Glaucidae