Top 27 Best Deep Sea Organisms

[Raph's Girl]

Cuz they apperantly had nothing else to do. Discovery.com's blog is counting down this month the top 27 Deep Sea Creatures. Well the Top 27 in their opinion anyways. ATM they have 27 - 12 down. My fave so far is #26.... the Pig Butt Worm.

Charming looking fella aint he:

Pig Butt Worm, Chaetopterus pugaporcinus

This species bring a whole new meaning to butt face. It's Latin name even means butt face. I jest... it actually means resembling a pig's rump. Chaetopterus is a polychaete and like other worms it has segments. Some of the segments are just a little bit inflated. But it's not just it's looks that puts this little fellow on our list. It feeds by deploying a mucus cloud that traps material in the water. Shaped like a butt and uses a mucus cloud to feed...enough said.

The other creatures so far are:

27: Brachiopods (an ancient bivalve)

25: Stalked Crinoids aka Sea Lillies


24: Tube Worms

23: Dumbo Octopus. This thing looks like a Pokemon!

A music vid of one to the tune of a Duran Duran song.


22: Xenophyophore (largest single cell organism in the world!)

21: Pram Bug (they um...inhabit the dead bodies of Jelly fish...and lay their eggs inem)

20: Swimming Sea Cucumbers (which I've always found to be way kewl)

19: Black Devil/Humpback Anglerfish. In typical Anglerfish fashion these things are major scary!


18: Venus Fly Trap Anemone (cuz it looks like a Venus Fly Trap...)

17: Tripod Fish. It "walks" on 3 stilt like fins. Plus it's one of the few species that's asexual (has both male and female parts) and doesn't need to mate with another Tripod fish.

16: Red Eye Gaper. It's an extremely weird looking fish in the Angler family. Kinda looks like an orange frog:



15: Spookfish (looks like a toothless Sawfish)

14: Hairy Vent Snail. Dude!! A snail with hair (actually soft spines but still)


13: Deep Sea Corals....apperantly another species to add to the "What would survive a nuclear blast" list.

12: Remember a couple years back when I posted an image of a hairy white crab just discovered?? Well they ended up giving it the name Yeti Crab. Altho the scientific name is Kiwa hirsuta and translates to Hairy Goddess of the Shellfish.

http://blogs.discovery.com/deep_sea_...-best-d-9.html