ACT 2. Batfishes from the genus Platax have mimetic juveniles, with different species mimicking all sorts of different things, from leaves, to crinoids, to poisonous flatworms! Here’s a juvenile Platax pinnatus mimicking a Pseudobiceros worm. Worm in last pic.

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eyy , what's up with many nudibranch post these days ? let me join then 😆



GO GO NUDIBRANCH RANGERS (without Sacoglossa sp.)
left to right :
- Nembrotha cristata
- Hexabranchus sanguineus
- Cratena peregrina
- Chromodoris lochi

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Now might be a good time for me to tweet my illustration of Elysia - the solar-powered green sea slug
https://t.co/wqMKh320Ov

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Fishes aren’t only diverse with regards to number of species, they are also highly diverse in their morphology. Some stomiids have a functional head joint! They have evolved a “rubber neck” for the purpose of expanding their jaws wide enough to eat big things!

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