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Crustaceans Zoologists classify lobsters, crabs, shrimps, and their relatives as arthropods. An arthropod (which is from the Greek arthron, joint; pous, foot) is an invertebrate animal, one without a backbone, having jointed appendages. Other arthropods or joint footed animals are insects, spiders, mites, scorpions, centipedes, millipedes, and the last two being the one hundred legged and thousand legged animals with which many of us are familiar, although neither has a hundred nor a thousand legs. Nearly a glance at any of these animals will show that in respect to their appendages they are structurally alike though they may differ in other ways. It will be noted that the lobster belongs to the class Crustacean. So, too, the crabs, shrimps, and all their relatives such as the barnacle, Cray fishes, fairy shrimps, and Beach fleas. Most members of the class Crustacean are small animals under half-inch in length. The lobsters and the crabs are the Giants.
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Kingdom: Animalia This page is dedicated to general information on many different marine organisms! If you love marine life as much as I do, I'm sure you'll enjoy learning some interesting facts about them. Hope you like the page!
Famous for their constant house hunting, Hermit Crabs are one of the most popular invertebrates to own. Found all over the world, they occupy the discarded shells of other species. As they grow, they require larger and larger shells, which they use as armor and a hiding place from their enemies. In addition, they are, surprisingly, varied in color, including brown, red, and blue.
Red Hermit Crab (Dardanus Megistos) The hermit crab is a curious species that carries its home around on its back. Because the crab's abdomen is soft and vulnerable, its uses discarded snail shells to protect itself. As the crab grows larger, it must continually seek out larger shells. Hermit crabs are adept scavengers, and will feed on just about anything they find. Scientific name: Dardanus sp. Although interesting to observe and useful as scavengers, larger hermit crabs are too destructive to be kept in a community aquarium. Some of the smaller varieties are not as great a threat to tankmates. Hermit crabs spend most of their time foraging and are often more active at night. (Source: Scott Michael, author of Reef Fishes, Microcosm Press) Degree of difficulty: relatively easy Maximum size: 1.5 to 6 inches long, depending on the species Compatibility: More than one hermit crab can be kept in the same aquarium, but larger individuals may prey on smaller ones. Larger hermit crabs are very destructive, feeding on other invertebrates and small sleeping fish. Smaller specimens should not be kept with crustacean-feeding fish, such as groupers, snappers, or hawkfish. All are potential prey for larger wrasses, triggerfish, pufferfish, and porcupinefish. Food: omnivorous; its diet should be varied and include plant material Habitat: These crabs can live on sand or hard bottoms. Provide them with extra shells to move into as they grow. |
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The word crustacean comes from the Latin crusta or shell and was originally used to designate and animal having the hard but flexible covering or shell as contrasted with an animal, such as the oyster or clam having a hard but brittle covering or shell. But since nearly all arthropods have a hard, flexible covering it has become necessary to use more distinctive criteria for designating and animal as a crustacean. The Decapods borrow , the largest and most highly organized of crustaceans, we know them as lobsters, crabs, shrimp, and crayfishes.
The Phyllopods are crustaceans with flat, leaf like thoracic appendages that serve no double purpose of respiration and swimming, these include many shrimp such as the brine shrimp
Pictures and Crustacean List By Species Name
All of the species described and pictured are listed . To go directly to a particular species in this list click on the name. If you prefer to look at the image gallery of a group click on a heading.
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The clam should be placed on a flat, horizontal, clean surface. The byssus opening should be flush against the substrate. Do not place the clam between two large rocks or in a small hole, or it will not be able to open up all the way. Tridacna clams like gentle, indirect water currents. They should also be places far away from aggressive corals and anemones. H.hippopus, T.maxima, T.crocea, and T.derasa photo's courtesy of
What to expect from Redclaw while in fish tanks. Redclaw are a very colorful, and make a nice addition to any fish tank. Redclaw can be a tan color, with pastel markings on the side of the body ,or a dark blue black color that has golden band . In both cases male Redclaw will display the sky blue claws, and bright red patches on the outside of their claws. Redclaw are omnivorous, and will take advantage of any food source. Any food source can include your plants, small slower moving fish, and each other. Most of this can be overcome by having enough food for Redclaw to eat, and a good place to hide.
Lobsters include large crustaceans from two groups,
one with a pair of large claws and the other without. Clawed lobsters, yabbies
and freshwater crayfish, live only in rivers and lakes in Australia but in
the northern hemisphere there are marine representatives too. Marine lobsters,
some of which are also called crayfish in Australia, do not have claws and
are the ones figured here. The carapace is calcareous and tough, reinforced
to protect the internal organs of the head and thorax and the gills at the
bases of the legs. The antennae are obvious, the compound eyes are on mobile
stalks, there are six pairs of small limbs around the mouth, and five pairs
of walking legs. The abdomen is strong and muscular, with a strong segmented
exoskeleton on the back. It has the swimmerets underneath and ends in a tail
fan.
Starfish
Although they can easily be housed with most fish, Starfish will prey on mollusks or sea urchins, which comprise their primary diet in the wild. They do not require a special temperature or salinity and will thrive at the standard aquarium temperature of 77 degrees Fahrenheit and salinity of 1.020. Because they tend to be large in size, Starfish should be housed in big tanks. They need a diet of frozen shrimp, mollusks, fish, and detritus.
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Clams Tridacna maxima Maxima and Crocea clams are the most popular for the home aquarium. They have the richest colors and the most vivid patterns and are stunningly beautiful, especially when viewed from above. They are further characterized by the rows of fluting along the sides of their shell. Despite their delicate appearance, they are easily maintained if you have the patience and the desire..
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Proper nutrition is the key to keeping seahorses healthy and breeding them in captivity. In their natural habitat, seahorses feed continuously throughout the daylight hours, consuming great numbers of small crustaceans and other larval organisms that are collectively termed zooplankton
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Feeding your seahorses by hand permits the aquarist to conduct a close-up, daily inspection of every specimen in his tank.
A seahorse is a type of fish closely related to pipefishes and belonging to the scientific family Syngnathidae. About 35 species of seahorses occur worldwide. The seahorse's scientific genus name Hippocampus is a Greek word meaning "bent horse." Depending on the species, seahorses reach lengths from about 5 to 36 cm (2-14 in.).
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The Brighter Side Of SEA SLUGS What are Sea-Slugs?
Despite their rather ugly name, sea-slugs include some of the most beautifully coloured and delicately shaped animals in the sea. They are related to marine snails, and during their evolution their shell has gradually become smaller and eventually lost. The 'slug-shape' has evolved many times amongst both land snails and marine snails.
FOR ANIMALS that are toxic, bright coloration can send a vivid message: Attack me at your peril. So it is for many sea slugs, also called nudibranchs. Of the 5,000 of these often-dazzling mollusk species, most are found in the Indo-Pacific region. Long ago, perhaps to increase mobility, they shed their awkward, protective shells, frequently relying instead on gaudy hues to avert attacks. For enemies that fail to take heed, an arsenal of chemical secretions and other noxious surprises awaits.
Pan American Nudibranchs
Philippine/Indo-Pacific Opisthobranchs
Indonesian Sea Apple Pseudocolochirus axiologus
Nudibranches Nudibranchs from the Mediterranean Sea
Sea slugs secrete a seductive scent that makes them almost irresistible to each other and researchers believe that one day this chemical could be used to control the reproductive cycles of important food-source animals.
OPISTHOBRANCHS
Molluscs In total, there are eight classes of molluscs. There are the three major and very familiar groups: 1) clams and mussels (Bivalvia), 2) snails and slugs (Gastropoda) and 3) squids and octopuses (Cephalopoda). Then there are the less familiar chitons (Polyplacophora), and four groups of which relatively few people will have heard anything about: 1) Scaphopoda, 2) Monoplacophora, 3) Aplacophora, and 4) Caudofoveata (and the relationships of this last group are still the subject of some debate). I’ll spend the majority of the these articles discussing the ecology and biology of molluscs (primarily the first 3 groups listed above) in some detail, and then I’ll try to discuss some of the specifics of the animals themselves.
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The fascinating sea-horse belong to the same family as pipefishes and sea dragons and are believed to have evolved over 40 million years ago. Sea-horses exhibit seemingly bizarre reproductive behavior. When they reproduce, the male becomes pregnant-carrying the fertilized eggs in a brood pouch and nourishing the young until they are born. Sea-horses practice faithful monogamy, mating exclusively with the same partner during their lifetime. They perform greeting dances every morning to confirm their bond and are slow to find a new mate if their partner disappears or dies. Unfortunately, the sea-horse's unusual reproductive behavior makes them very vulnerable to over fishing. Sea-horses have low reproductive rates and their populations are easily disrupted.
More about Anemones In an aquarium, without an actinian, captive fish will bathe among air bubbles or frondose vegetation, so we infer that they obtain tactile stimulation from anemone tentacles. And the claim of some aquarists that the fish are livelier and healthier when kept with anemones suggests other benefits as well.
Indeed, aquarists have added much to knowledge of this symbiosis. Many have seen fish bring food to their anemones. This behaviour seems confined to aquaria. The normal diet of clownfishes is small plants and animals that live in the water above the anemone, or algae that grow around it . In nature, they do not encounter large particles of food, so they eat their food where it is found. Feeding large morsels to a fish in an aquarium produces an artifact: the fish, unable to devour the piece immediately, takes it home to work on it in the relative security of its own territory, as is typical of predators that obtain food in large amounts. But the territory in this case consumes the food! Benefits or detriments to the anemone are not obvious. But neither do the fishes seem to harm their hosts. Therefore, many biologists have considered this a strictly one-sided relationship. The occasional anemones found in nature lacking fish support this conclusion -- they seem to survive perfectly well without fish. Or do they? Read the article, you will find it very interesting.
Anemones are often described as a sack of water. Although this analogy is over simplistic, the majority of an anemone's mass is water. Anemones have the ability to inflate and deflate, changing sizes very quickly by drawing water in through the mouth, which is a slit-like opening on the oral disc. The mouth is surrounded by a ring of tentacles. The majority of the body consists of the column. At the base of the anemone is the pedal disc, which the anemone uses to attach itself to substrate or rock.
The Arrow Crab looks like a daddy long legs spider. It is not afraid even whendivers approach it. The Arrow crab is very good at getting rid of Bristol worms, a scourge in some aquariums. This crab has long pointed pinchers, and can reach into small areas to get the Bristol worms. You must be careful, this crab will eat any vegetable form that is in the aquarium. They will prowl the aquarium looking for any small crustacean to eat also.
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OCTOPUS
Phylum: Mollusca
Octopuses, squids, cuttlefish and the chambered nautilus belong to class Cephalopoda, which means 'head foot'. Cephalopods are mollusks and therefore are related to bivalves (scallops, oysters, clams), gastropods (snails and slugs), scaphopoda (tusk shells), and polypla- cophorans (chitons). Some of these mollusks, like the bivalves, don't even have a head, much less something large enough to be called a brain! Yet cephalopods have well developed senses and large brains and are thought to be the most intelligent of all invertebrates. Most mollusks are protected by a shell and many of them are not very mobile. Although the ancient nautilus has an external shell, the trend in cephalopods is to internalize and reduce the shell. The shell in cuttlefish, when present, is internal. The cuttlebone from cuttlefish is sold in many pet shops to supply calcium to birds. Squid also have a reduced internal shell called a pen. Octopuses lack a shell all together.
The Nautilus
The Chambered Nautilus normally resides in about 600 feet of water. This relative of the Octopus has remained virtually unchanged since ancient times. Above it's tube like jet, is a beaked mouth. Very much like an octopus, and also used to crack open shells. Surrounding all of this are many tentacles which can be extended out or tuck in close to the body. These tentacles are also very sticky enabling the nautilus to pull food close to its mouth making it easier to use that sharp beak to drill into or crack shells and small crabs. The entire living body is located in the first several inches of the shell opening. For protection, the very tough flexible covering can be drawn in, covering the entire soft body including the eyes and tentacles. The chambered nautilus, along with squids, octopi, cuttlefish is a member of the class Cephalopoda of the phylum Mollusca. One of the most striking characteristics of members of this group is the well-developed sensory and nervous system. The pearly nautiluses are partially, at least, scavengers that can hold an occasional windfall of up to 20% of the body weight in their large crop.
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Example Question........I have purchased what was called a long tentacle anemone. This specimen has a base about 1 1/2 inches around and about 2 inches high with many long (2 to 3 in) translucent tentacles on it . When I placed it into the tank I first placed it near the top of my tank, after a few hours it started to move down between the rocks until it was almost hidden, so I moved it to a spot lower in the tank and again it did the same thing. This happened a third time ending up with the base of the anemone buried in the sand so I moved it into an open area of the sand where it is now and again the base is buried in the sand. Would this be a normal position for this type of anemone? if not why does it want to bury it base? I also would like to know what is the best food to give it? Thanks, Don Taylor Answer.........Don!!!!!, the best recommendation I can give you is to let the anenome go where it wants to. By moving the anenome you may damage his fragile body. Also the anenome has a natural instinct on where to locate himself for optimum protection and filter feeding. Kent Marine makes a good anenome nutrition formula. I have constructed a pipette that I inject the food directly at the anenome. This can be made by attaching a flexible air tube to the end of a small rigid air tube. Then squirt a little of the food in the end of the rigid tubing and blow lightly into the flexible tubing shooting the food into the mouth of the anenome. I hope your anenome does well. Let me know if you have further questions.
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