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The mantle of Dentalium species is entirely within the shell. The foot extends from the larger end of the shell, and is used to burrow through the substrate. They position their head down in the substrate, with the apical end of the shell (at the rear of the animal's body) projecting up into the water.
Parasa lepida, the nettle caterpillar or blue-striped nettle grub, is a moth of the family Limacodidae that was described by Pieter Cramer in 1799. It is a native minor pest found in the Indo-Malayan region, including India, Sri Lanka, Vietnam, Malaysia and Indonesia.
The black swallower (Chiasmodon niger) is a species of deep sea fish in the family Chiasmodontidae.It is known for its ability to swallow fish larger than itself. It has a worldwide distribution in tropical and subtropical waters, in the mesopelagic and bathypelagic zones at a depth of 700–2,745 m (2,297–9,006 ft). [3]
Ludwigia (primrose-willow, water-purslane, or water-primrose) is a genus of about 82 species of aquatic plants with a cosmopolitan but mainly tropical distribution.. Currently (2023), there is much debate among botanists and plant taxonomists as to the classification of many Ludwigia species.
Cryptolestes is a genus of beetles in the family Laemophloeidae.Several species are known as economically important pests of stored products, especially food grains.The four most notorious species are Cryptolestes ferrugineus, Cryptolestes pusilloides, Cryptolestes pusillus, and Cryptolestes turcicus. [1]
Workers and major workers are mostly coloured orange. Workers are 5–7 millimetres (0.20–0.28 in) long; they look after larvae and farm scale bugs for honeydew.Major workers are 8–10 millimetres (0.3–0.4 in) long, with long strong legs and large mandibles.
Nematopsis (Nee-mah-top-cis) is a genus gregarine Apicomplexan of the family Porosporidae. [1] [2] It is an aquatic parasite of crustaceans with a molluscan intermediate host.. Nematopsis has been distinguished from the similar genus Porospora by its resistant and encapsulated oocyst
Triarthrus is a genus of Upper Ordovician ptychopariid trilobite found in New York, Ohio, Kentucky, and Indiana, eastern and northern Canada, China and Scandinavia.It is the last of the Olenid trilobites, a group which flourished in the Cambrian period.