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giraffe-in-a-tree:

Bavosetta a pois arancioni - Amblyeleotris guttata [Orange Spotted Prawn Goby] by ecatoncheires on Flickr.
I love Prawn Gobies so much no one even knows. My dad has one of these in his fish tank c:

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letslook4treasure:

Nudibranch (by Rowland Cain)

You’ll wanna look at the large version on his flickr page. Holy crap.

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Nudibranch pair (Tritoniopsis elegans) feeding on soft coral at night! by Okinawa Nature Photography on Flickr.

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Immortal Jellyfish. By: h16nakaji
Turritopsis nutricula, the immortal jellyfish, is a hydrozoan whose medusa, or jellyfish, form can revert to the polyp stage after becoming sexually mature. It is the only known case of a metazoan capable of reverting completely to a sexually immature, colonial stage after having reached sexual maturity as a solitary stage. It does this through the cell development process of trans-differentiation. Cell transdifferentiation is when the jellyfish “alters the differentiated state of the cell and transforms it into a new cell”. In this process the medusa of the immortal jellyfish is transformed into the polyps of a new polyp colony. First, the umbrella reverts itself and then the tentacles and mesoglea get resorbed. The reverted medusa then attaches itself to the substrate by the end that had been at the opposite end of the umbrella and starts giving rise to new polyps to form the new colony. Theoretically, this process can go on indefinitely, effectively rendering the jellyfish biologically immortal.

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Denise’s pygmy seahorse

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