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12 Jun 2011

Glaucus Atlanticus


If Ben 10 new aliens need, maybe this one sea creature can be a candidate :D


Similar Ben 10 Alien
Latin name, Gaucus Atlanticus. Blue sea slug vocation. But, its not like a snail. The shape is more like Ben 10 aliens or monsters. She was slender with a tail that melancip. Body length between 3 cm - 8 cm. Hand - his hand had fingers that tufted-tassel. At first glance like a claw was called cerata.


Colors Masquerade
Glaucus body color serves to disguise. The top of her dark blue and silver. Its function, to blend with the sparkling sea. So, he is safe from the birds. If the lower body and light blue - gray. Its function is to look like the sky. So fish - fish do not eat it and tricked.


Float Reversed
Glaucus that pelagic animals. That is, life floats on the surface of the sea, he can float because it has air sacs in the stomach. Uniquely, he was floating upside down. So, what about about his upper body is actually the bottom of the body.

Poisonous sting
Glaucus like to eat Physalia Physalis. Jellyfish-like creatures thathave a poisonous sting cells. But Glaucus immune to poison. In fact,when the eat it, Glaucus take and store these toxins. Toxins arestored in special bags, cnidosac. The bag is on the ends of thecerata. Glaucus then use poison as a weapon to defend themselvesfrom predators.




Facts Glaucus Atlanticus

  1. Live in tropical waters, such as Africa and Australia.
  2. His life depends on wind and ocean waves.
  3. Hermaphrodites, meaning a male and female reproductive organs.
  4. Sometimes cannibal, namely eating each other.






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