There was silence in my perfectly orange room. I was having a slumber party I invited a bunch of girls from my class. We were all in our pajamas. I had the perfect night planned. We should to the pool! We swam everywhere, then thunder was every where. TWEET!!!! Went the whistle. No! My perfect night was ruined. We got out of the pool. We were having the best time and yet we had to stop. We went back up to my room. I found out that not everyone was having fun. So it all worked out. Thank you thunder!

Introduction

Flamingo octopus worm, sadly it is not real. But what is real is the Flamingo Tongue Snail, the Dumbo octopus, and the Christmas tree worm. Three weird but cool animals. If you are wondering what they eat, how big they are or anything like that, you have come to the right place.

 Flamingo Tongue Snail

The  Flamingo Tongue Snail is our first animal. They live in the Epipelagic Zone also known as the sunlight zone. The Epipelagic zone is 0- 656 feet. The Flamingo Tongue Snail is found 6 to 45 feet deep. The Flamingo Tongue Snail can live up to two years or more.

The Flamingo Tongue Snail are 1-2 inches long so they have to eat tiny things like the polyps of sea rods as well as other gorgonians (soft corals). Flamingo Tongues Snails use their feet to eat! Flamingo Tongues Snail only have a few predators, such as the hogfish, pufferfish, and the Caribbean Spiny lobster.  

Dumbo Octopus

Here we have our 2nd animal, the Dumbo Octopus. The Dumbo Octopus lives in the Bathyscaphe Zone. The Bathyscaphe Zone is the 3rd zone and it goes from 1,000 meters to 4,000 meters, which makes the Dumbo Octopus the deepest living of all known octopuses. The average lifespan of dumbo octopus is between 3 and 5 years. And most of them are 20-30 cm, which is a small octopus.   

The scientific name for the Dumbo Octopus is Grimpoteuthis spp. Their diet includes copepods, isopods, bristle worms, and amphipods. Even though they are small, They eat their prey whole. Main predators of Dumbo Octopus are Sharks and Killer whales.

Christmas tree worm

The 3rd animal is the Christmas tree worm. Like the Flamingo Tongue Snail they live in the epipelagic zone/ sunlight zone. They best live in 30m or higher. They aren’t very big, averaging about 1.5 inches in length. They can live up to 40 years.

Another name is the Spirobranchus giganteus. They get their name Christmas Tree Worm gets its holiday nickname from its gills. It makes its home inside a coral reef. The coral reef is home to many small and big animals. Evan though the Christmas Tree Worm lives in the Coral reef it still has predators like the Sea urchins, flounders, parrot fish, lobsters, puddingwifes, stingrays, schoolmasters, and sea stars. The Flamingo Tongue Snail feeds on phytoplankton.

Fun facts

Here are some fun fact about the animals. The Christmas tree worm Has Eyes on Its Gills. “You have to kind of sneak up on them and look at them” say Michael Bok (sciencenews.org) Christmas tree worm come in all sorts of colors including red, orange, yellow and blue. The dumbo octopus can also come in lots of colors like yellow, pink, red, and orange. But the Flamingo Tongue Snail only come in about two colors and that is a very light orange with darker orange spots or a very light orange with yellow spots.

Flamingo tongue snails scientific name is Cyphoma gibbosum.  Grimpoteuthis spp or the Dumbo octopus is just nicknamed the Dumbo octopus because the fin like ear look like the Disney character Dumbos ears. It appears the Flamingo Tongue Snails can ingest toxic sea fan polyps without being injured, but in turn they become toxic themselves. Scientists believe the toxic chemicals ingested by the snails are the cause for their distastefulness.

Conclusion

Hopefuly you know more about the Flamingo tongue snail, Dumbo octopus, and the Christmas tree worm than when you first came here. And know you know that the Flamingo tongue snail lives in the Epipelagic Zone and so does the Christmas tree worm. And the Dumbo octopus lives in Bathyscaphe Zone. So keep learning more about the strange animals of the sea!

Citations

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“CHRISTMAS TREE WORM.” Floridaocean. Web. 8 Mar. 2016. <http://www.floridaocean.org/uploads/docs/blocks/169/christmas-tree-worm.pdf>.

“Christmas Tree Worms, Spirobranchus giganteus ~ MarineBio.org.” MarineBio Conservation Society. Web. Accessed Tuesday, May 03, 2016. <http://marinebio.org/species.asp?id=543>. Last update: 4/4/2014 6:53:00 PM ~ Contributor(s): MarineBio

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MILIUS, SUSAN. “Christmas Tree Worms Have Eyes That Breathe, Gills That See.” Science News. N.p., 26 Jan. 2016. Web. 03 May 2016. <https://www.sciencenews.org/article/christmas-tree-worms-have-eyes-breathe-gills-see>.

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