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Weird & Wonderful Zone
NAME : Spotted Hermit Crab
NAME OF THE SPECIE: Spotted Hermit Crab
LOCATION : Living in reefs in the Indo-Pacific region from Africa to the South China Sea and Hawaii.
HABITAT: These crabs spend most of their life underwater as aquatic animals, live in varying depths of saltwater from shallow reefs and shorelines to deep sea bottoms and rarely leave for land.
HABITAT (15-20 words): Inhabit a variety of saltwater habitats from shallow reefs and shorelines to deep sea bottoms.Â
WEIGHT: UPTO: 8 CM. ; 0.01 KG.
DIET: Not Details
FOOD: Not Details
FOOD & DIET: They are opportunustuc omnivores and are reported to feed on holothurians.
FACT: Unlike true crabs, if a hermit crab gets sick of its shell, it can move out. In fact, they have to change shells as they grow. While gastropods like whelks, conch and other snails make their own shells, hermit crabs seek shelter in the shells of gastropods. Hermit crabs can commonly be found inhabiting the empty shells of animals such as periwinkles, whelks and moon snails. They usually don't steal shells that are already occupied. Instead, they'll search for vacant shells.
NAME : Tropical Rock Lobster
NAME OF THE SPECIE: Tropical Rock Lobster
LOCATION : This species is known from the Indo-West Pacific. It ranges from Natal in South Africa, along the coast of East Africa and the Red Sea, to southern Japan, the Solomon Islands, Papua New Guinea, Australia (Northern Territory south to New South Wales), New Caledonia and Fiji .
HABITAT: This species is known from slightly turbid coastal waters, sandy and muddy substrates, rocky and coral reefs; most commonly to depths of 8 m, though there are a few records documenting it to 50 m
HABITAT (15-20 words): They inhabit slightly turbid coastal waters in sandy and muddy substrates, and on rocky and coral reefs.
WEIGHT: UPTO : 50 CM 0.5 KG.
DIET: Not Details
FOOD: The ornate spiny lobster eats snails, clams, crabs, and sea urchins. It is also a scavenger, meaning that it will sometimes eat dead things, like fish, that it finds on the floor of the reef. Since it eats other animals, it is a carnivore.
FOOD & DIET: Feed on snails, clams, crabs, sea urchins and dead things, like fish, that it finds on the floor of the reef.
FACT: The ornate spiny lobster does not have big front claws, but it does have long spines covering much of its body and its antennae. Its front two antennae can grow up to 2 feet (61 cm) long, and it uses them to sniff out its prey.
NAME : Starfish
NAME OF THE SPECIE: Starfish
LOCATION : Starfish species inhabit all of the world's oceans.
HABITAT: Mainly a marine group, asteroids are found in all the oceans. Except for a few species which inhabit brackish waters, asteroideas are benthic organisms found in marine environments.
HABITAT (15-20 words): Except for a few species which inhabit brackish waters, asteroideas are benthic organisms found in marine environments.
WEIGHT: UPTO:2 CM 0.8Kg
DIET: Not Details
FOOD: Asteroideas are mainly scavengers and carnivores. In many areas where they are found they are high level predators. Asteroideas feed on slow moving prey and other invertebrates.
FOOD & DIET: Mainly scavengers and carnivores, they feed on slow moving prey and other invertebrates.
FACT: Although they are named "starfish", they are not related to fish at all. Starfish belong to the group of marine invertebrates which also include sea cucumber, sea urchin and sand dollar.
NAME : Haddon’s Carpet Anemone / Haddon’s Sea Anemone
NAME OF THE SPECIE: Haddon’s Carpet Anemone / Haddon’s Sea Anemone
LOCATION : Indo-West Pacific; from the Red Sea and Indian Ocean through Southeast Asia and the Coral Triangle to Australia and the central Pacific. It is also recorded from India, including the Andaman and Nicobar Islands.
HABITAT: Marine, tropical, mainly on sandy sea floors, sand flats and seagrass beds; generally found in shallow coastal waters, approximately 0.5–30 m deep.
HABITAT (15-20 words): Lives mainly on sandy bottoms and seagrass beds in shallow tropical coastal waters and lagoons.
WEIGHT: Usually about 40–50 cm across; can reach approximately 75–80 cm in oral-disc diameter. Reliable body-weight data are not available.
DIET: Small fish, fish larvae, small crustaceans and other small invertebrates.
FOOD: Carnivorous; captures prey using sticky, stinging tentacles. It also receives nutrients from symbiotic photosynthetic algae (zooxanthellae).
FOOD & DIET: Eats small fish and invertebrates using sticky tentacles while also obtaining energy from symbiotic photosynthetic algae.
FACT: Its short, sticky tentacles form a carpet-like oral disc and it provides a host home for several clownfish species.
વૈજ્ઞાનિક નામ : Dardanus megistos
જાતિનું નામ: Spotted Hermit Crab
સ્થાન: વિગતો નથી
લંબાઈ અને વજન: વિગતો નથી
ખોરાક (વૈકલ્પિક) આહાર : વિગતો નથી
વિશેષતા: વિગતો નથી
વૈજ્ઞાનિક નામ : Panulirus ornatus
જાતિનું નામ: Tropical Rock Lobster
સ્થાન: વિગતો નથી
લંબાઈ અને વજન: વિગતો નથી
ખોરાક (વૈકલ્પિક) આહાર : વિગતો નથી
વિશેષતા: વિગતો નથી
વૈજ્ઞાનિક નામ : Asteroidea
જાતિનું નામ: Starfish
સ્થાન: વિગતો નથી
લંબાઈ અને વજન: વિગતો નથી
ખોરાક (વૈકલ્પિક) આહાર : વિગતો નથી
વિશેષતા: વિગતો નથી
વૈજ્ઞાનિક નામ : Stichodactyla haddoni
જાતિનું નામ: Haddon’s Carpet Anemone / Haddon’s Sea Anemone
સ્થાન: Indo-West Pacific વિસ્તારમાં જોવા મળે છે; Red Sea અને Indian Oceanથી Southeast Asia, Australia અને Central Pacific સુધી. ભારતમાં Andaman અને Nicobar Islandsમાં પણ નોંધાયેલ છે.
લંબાઈ અને વજન: સામાન્ય રીતે લગભગ 40–50 cm વ્યાસ; આશરે 75–80 cm સુધી પહોંચી શકે છે. વિશ્વસનીય વજનની માહિતી ઉપલબ્ધ નથી.
ખોરાક: માંસાહારી છે. ચીકણા અને ડંખ મારતા tentacles વડે શિકાર પકડે છે અને symbiotic photosynthetic algaeમાંથી પણ પોષણ મેળવે છે.
ખોરાક (વૈકલ્પિક) આહાર : ચીકણા tentacles વડે નાની માછલીઓ અને invertebrates પકડે છે તથા symbiotic algaeમાંથી વધારાની ઊર્જા મેળવે છે.
વિશેષતા: તેના નાના ચીકણા tentacles આખા oral discને carpet જેવો દેખાવ આપે છે અને ઘણી clownfish speciesને આશ્રય આપે છે.
वैज्ञानिक नाम : Dardanus megistos
जाति का नाम : Spotted Hermit Crab
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वैज्ञानिक नाम : Panulirus ornatus
जाति का नाम : Tropical Rock Lobster
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वैज्ञानिक नाम : Asteroidea
जाति का नाम : Starfish
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वैज्ञानिक नाम : Stichodactyla haddoni
जाति का नाम : Haddon’s Carpet Anemone / Haddon’s Sea Anemone
जगह: इंडो-वेस्ट पैसिफिक क्षेत्र; लाल सागर और हिंद महासागर से लेकर दक्षिण-पूर्व एशिया, ऑस्ट्रेलिया और मध्य प्रशांत तक। भारत में अंडमान और निकोबार द्वीप समूह में भी पाया जाता है।
लंबाई और वजन: सामान्यतः लगभग 40–50 सेमी व्यास; अधिकतम लगभग 75–80 सेमी तक हो सकती है। विश्वसनीय वजन संबंधी डेटा उपलब्ध नहीं है।
खाना: मांसाहारी है। चिपचिपे और डंक वाले टेंटेकल से शिकार पकड़ती है तथा सहजीवी प्रकाश-संश्लेषी शैवाल से भी पोषण प्राप्त करती है।
भोजन (वैकल्पिक) आहार: चिपचिपे टेंटेकल से छोटी मछलियाँ और अकशेरुकी पकड़ती है तथा सहजीवी शैवाल से अतिरिक्त ऊर्जा प्राप्त करती है।
विशेषता: इसके छोटे चिपचिपे टेंटेकल कालीन जैसे दिखाई देते हैं और यह कई क्लाउनफिश प्रजातियों को आश्रय देती है।