Dr. Leo Chan Gaskinsさんのイラストまとめ

It's #MarinePokemonIRL! Today is Remoraid!

Behaviorally, shooting prey out of water is archerfish behavior, but its name hints to remora. But it has no suction cup & it evolves into an octopus, Octillery! Confusing but cool Pokemon!

©Nintendo,WarrenPhotographic,mentalblock_DMD

Its #YeOldeAnimals Friday! Todays a 1790 Zebra Shark (Stegostoma fasciatum)!

Though the panel says tiger shark this is a zebra shark & its spot on! They change body pattern so dramatically as they grow into adulthood that babies & adults were thought to be diff species!

©Hughs

It's #MarinePokemonIRL! Today is Squirtle! 🐢💧

The OG water type starter! The smooth rounded shell looks like a Yellow Mud Turtle, but the sharp part of the mouth is more similar to an Common Snapping Turtle. Absolutely love Squirtle! :D

©Nintendo,TBrennan,DicksonCounty

It's #MarinePokemonIRL! Today is Golduck!

It looks like a combo of a duck & kappa, a humanoid Japanese river monster in folklore with webbed hands & feet. Given the beak shape I think it looks like its combined with a diving duck, a merganser! Cool combo!

©Nintendo,Tōan,MDC

It's #MarinePokemonIRL! Today is Kingler! 🦀

The body spines are similar to Red Spiny Crabs & claw sizes are like Fiddler Crabs! As you may have guessed, male fiddler crabs' big claws are for sexiness & little one is for eating. Kingler however is not sexually dimorphic!

It's #MarinePokemonIRL! Today is Krabby!

To me it looks similar to a small intertidal crab, the Lined Shore Crab (Pachygrapsus crassipes)! Lined shore crabs also stick up their claws in the air just like Krabby when threatened!

©Nintendo,RonWolf

It's #MarinePokemonIRL! Today is Mega Sharpedo, a Sawfish!

The teeth on the side of the nose, or rostrum, are the giveaway! Sawfish use these to stun prey then consume them! The mouth looks more similar to a great white. Cool to see a niche shark represented!

©Bulbapedia,SFU

Welcome to #MarinePokemonIRL, taking Pokemon & looking at their accuracy to their IRL counterparts!

Mantyke is a baby manta ray & has 2 cephalofoils on its head! Manta rays have back patterns IRL (not smileys but curved!) Adorable!

©little-ampharos,KaitlynBra

It's #EtymologyMonday! Today is Megalodon (Carcharocles megalodon)!

karcharos= sharp (greek)
oculus= eye (latin)
megas = mighty (greek)
odous= tooth (greek)

All together-> SHARP EYE MIGHTY TOOTH!

Seems fitting for this long extinct predatory shark!

©Kerem Beyit

Its #YeOldeAnimals Friday! Today is an 1760 Puffadder Shyshark (Haploblepharus edwardsii)!

Incredibly accurate drawing by the person its named after, George Edwards! I love that it shows that its an egg case laying animal & its yolk sac too, not just the adults!

©GEdwards