Tag: aquatic

giffingsharks:

The Japanese sawshark is a sawshark of the family Pristiophoridae, found in the northwest Pacific Ocean around Japan, Korea, and northern China. It has a flat snout, studded with teeth, which resembles a serrated saw. Protruding from the middle of the saw-like snout are two long, sensitive, whisker-like barbels. The sawshark uses these barbels, along with electro-receptors located on the underside of its saw (Ampullae of Lorenzini) to help it find prey buried in the sand as it cruises along the bottom of the ocean. [x]

drcalvin:

The sea squirt

I read an article about deriving bio-fuel from a critter called “sjöpung” and had to go ??? at what that was. Some googling and wiki-ing later, I learn that it’s a group of marine invertebrates called tunicates or sea squirts in English. They come in many more colors than expected! So time for some picshurs in my Tumblr 😉