#velvet sea slugs

[kazenorth]

All my sea slugs so far! Happy sea slug saturday!

More coming soon!

[dt75artblog]

I'm making a sea slug SRPG in the fashion of fire emblem genealogy of the holy war. heres some characters

[weirdanimal-tournament]

Round 3 Match 13

Velvetworm: "slime cannons w TWO dorsal nerve cords to support precision targetting prey. spews slime at them and gooes them up to eat them. then eats the slime to reuse slime for later."

Leaf Slug: "Stinkin’ cute teeny tiny sea creature…that looks like a sheep"

[mothpawbs]

i am obsessed with the trifecta of land, earth and sea Little Guys: velvet worms, moths, and nudibranchs

[bluepoodle7]

#Splatoon #SplatoonOc #BlueAngelSlug #BlackAndBlueVelvetSeaSlug #Inkling #Octoling #HybridInklingAndOctoling #MyOcs #PoodleArtMyArt

These are my Splatoon Oc's.

Ziki and Srua are my Splatoon store keeper Ocs.

Ziki is a blue angel or a blue dragon slug. (Has both genders but chooses to be female.)

Srua is a black and blue velvet sea slug that acts like a scarf. (Has both genders but chooses to be female.)

Ziki's job is to buy items you don't want like weapons, shoes, clothes, and accessories.

You can also buy items from her that range from one star to max stars which are very rare. This store might act on real time online. It's like a Goodwill.

Srua acts like a scarf for Ziki. She talks nicely to the player.

Ziki talks like a hippie and Srua is also chill sounding.

If you resell enough weapons they will give you a weapon that will be rare even Sheldon will be jealous. Also Srua likes moe.

You can be level 1 and shop here. She doesn't exclude non fresh customers because she treats fresh and non fresh equally.

(I made these when Splatoon first came out similar to Kanloca when the Wii Klonoa was the only game I played from another company.)

Pied got his splatergunX from Ziki as a rare item.

Pied is a odd colored inkling and he also has a sister named Piper that is a also a odd colored octoling.

They both gold or silver ink as their base ink but can conform to the normal ink colors the other inklings and octolings have in the canon game.

These kids were all adopted by a non inkling and octoling family but Bue is the third sibling that is a hybrid of inklings and octolings since he is half of both species.

All three kids seemed to have different DNA from other seafolk and are mysterious. But try to fit in.

Pic of Piper.

Piper by Eternity9 on DeviantArt

[skuffypaw]

all my slugcats. i think they can retract limbs hence why some don’t have arms. slugs they are referenced from under the cut

(rbs appreciated)

survivor and monk: banana slug

hunter: red slug

gourmand: dusky arion slug

artificer - volcano / fire snail (not a slug but the colors were very arti)

rivulet - bennett’s nudibranch (sea slug)

spearmaster - bielvia slug

saint - green slug moth catipillar (not a slug but i think that fits saint)

nightcat / watcher - black velvet leatherleaf slug

enot / inv / ??? - no reference

[sketchedatrocities]

IT'S SLOWHOG - IT'S THE BOY

Slowhog is a gag fakemon whose stats are bad and movepool is bad and is bad. I love him. His lore is that he's highly edible, slow and weak. A slug/pig that recovers from steak being carved off it without issue. I want a plushie of him. The shiny version of him is green.

I decided he needed to be explored in every way and typed him out like an eeveelution. 

Porkpast was well received.

I know I did well when people pointed to each one and said it was slept on. Google 'Velvet Worm' and 'Sea pig'.

Having done all the types I moved onto Pre-evolutions.

Brekkie won hands down, I'm sorry P-Flop lovers but there you are. It's shiny would also be green. The Progress of: Brekkie -> Slowhog -> Porkpast is the correct line as it's: Breakfast -> Lunch -> Digestion Digestion is also Dinner but lunch is haunting you.

The Hogly Trinity

The Devs mentioned adding a new 'Strange' Type in the next update, which gave me something to new Hog with

This satisfied me at the time.

Running out of Hogs to Pork Post with I moved on to special forms. His Oinks will save us from the Kaiju.

Lack of new Hog made me plyable in my morals and I made meme material with him.

'Hogchamp' is now a server emote.

At this point someone in the discord posted a Slowhog made in SPORE which I grasped onto as a new hog to draw. I was grateful for this.

Next came Pride Month, which is a time we draw Slowhog.

Obviously. This is Pridehog and it's shiny version. You did not need me to tell you this.

It had been a while since I had hogged. I awoke from a dream about pork and sketched this out on a loose sheet of Clipstudio raster layer I had laying next to my bed. This is a sound type, I think. I imagine hell sounds like this at all times, except when you say something embarrassing, at which point it all cuts out and everyone looks at you condescending.

hink honk, honk, hinkhink honk - it went I tried to ignore it but the next dream told me I was 'needed'. I woke up uncomfortable and bussed into to the Sex Factory, where I work. My eyes were bleary after my shift (which I can't describe due to Tumblr's tos) and I stared at one of those bus seat patterns like you remember from school trips. I thought I was going mad. I took a picture.

"Do you see this?" I asked the tall and busty woman who kept dropping her keys and saying whoops and bending over in front of me. The other woman who had her keys on a loop through her jeans kept staring at her, assumably in dismay at her lack of practical key handling. "Huh?" She said. "Sorry about my keys they-" I snapped my fingers rudely (I was scared) "Do you see that Pink pattern on the bus seats?" She looked confused and dropped her keys again. "No? They're fully blue." I looked back at the seats, they were fully blue. The picture on the digital camera I carry with me as an ironic anachronism displayed the slowhog pattern in full. I got off the bus and decided to draw some details on the Slowhog Evolutions.

You can also get Porkpast by inflating Hogone enough. You can't inflate Porkpast though, he's a ghost.

I felt refreshed, cleansed. But also a touch greasy. I had another dream, but this time the dream creature was a dog who spoke in polish and I realised I was just unhealthily sleep deprived.

Thank you for reading.

Why not download Pokemon Quarantine Crystal for SameBoy or other good Emulators? Perhaps join the discord too. It's fun.

[plaguedocboi]

What is your favorite nudibranch and why? (Idk it's just neat is a completely valid answer btw)

The blue velvet nudibranch is my sea slug fursona so I’m gonna go with them. Honorable mention to the living pile of melted asphalt, the giant sea hare, for what I think are extremely obvious reasons

[ganondoodle]

what's your favorite animal

ORCAS!! with a soft spot for type d orcas

whalesharks!!

also these guys!!

sea slugs (dont know which one this is but like .. pretty much all of them are funky)

this birb

big chonky HONSE

this thing

big MOO

velvet worm velvet worm velvelt worm-

moth mothMOTHMOTH (dis one atlas moth im pretty sure)

manta rayyyyyyyyyy

OKAPI (this ones baby)

blue corral snake (for color mostly but many other sneks too)

also cats of course, but im most excited about the first two and anything funky, especially interesting color combinations or chonky shapes-

most of these pics are from my personal inspiration collection so uhh excuse me for having no extra info for all of them qnq

[raintailed]

my stuff for week 3 of funguary!

Velour (ze/zir, noi/noir), based on black velvet mushrooms and on the black velvet sea slug! Zir fur is SUPER soft like holy moly. that's soft

A caramel lizard based on enoki mushrooms (and the fact that lizards can have q-tip shaped frills, which are very silly). They were adopted by a friend.

The Vandal (they/them, ce/cir), based on inky cap mushrooms. They're also based on an old idea: basically, Vandal was modified by Dangers Ever-Present for vandalizing the ancient murals, but that obviously backfires because now Vandal doesn't need to make paint anymore >:]

Patient Zero (they/them), based on purple-spored puffballs. I actually created them a while ago, but hadn't made a reference for them yet! They have the same kind of symbiotic fungus that Zolli does. Also, they're named Patient Zero because they're the first creature modified by ANT using a funky retrovirus, which makes the fungus beneficial to its host :]

[tauforged]

Is keeping sea slugs difficult? I love them and probably won't get them anytime soon because cats but if I ever do...

i’d say it’s pretty difficult, yeah. depends on what species you’re looking at, but all nudibranchs (and ‘things-that-get-labeled-as-nudibranchs-even-though-they-technically-aren’t, like the blue velvet slugs i just got) are very picky eaters and will often Exclusively eat one type of food down to species. the ‘easiest’ are probably lettuce slugs, as they’re algae grazers, but even then some say they’ll only eat certain species of macroalgae.

i have two species of slugs in my nano reef right now— berghia nudibranchs and the blue velvet slugs. i bought them because i have an excess of pest animals that they both prey on exclusively (aiptasia anemones for the berghia and flatworms for the velvets) and can’t control these pests via chemical means (for the safety of the other animals in my tank) or mechanical (they’re very hard to fully remove and i have hand tremors anyway), but it’s often accepted that if you don’t have a good supply of what these guys eat, they’ll starve to death pretty fast.

of the two, i’d honestly say the berghia nudis are generally easier to keep - lot of people will breed them and just keep a separate tank full of aiptasia to feed them with, since they’re very fast growing anemones. blue velvets are a bit harder because they’ve got short lifespans as-is and flatworms are hard to get ahold of except for by accident, while some people purposefully culture and sell aiptasia as feeders.

i’m taking a STRONG gamble with my slugs, and honestly i’m only doing it because i have a fair amount of confidence in my ability to maintain good water conditions, but even then it’s not bulletproof. they’re one of those things where even if you do everything “right”, they still might not thrive because we don’t really know them as well as we know, say, shrimp or corals just yet. for me this is really my only option for handling my flatworm problem, so i’m taking that risk, but it may not work out and i’m prepared for that outcome.

i’m hoping the will continue to improve when it comes to getting better at keeping and breeding these animals, though, because they’re very cool! while i can’t say i’d want to see them wild-caught in the pet trade, the ability to aquaculture them would be a huge step. and it would be wonderful to see them in aquariums more often :)

[kazenorth]

Blue Velvet Sea Slug 🟦

This sea slug is used in saltwater aquariums to take care of any flatworm problems!

[tentacledsnakelover]

Wild Kratts Episode Ideas

We made it another year. 2024, specifically, January 3rd, 2024, marks the 13th anniversary of Wild Kratts, which first aired in 2011 with Mom of a Croc. I remember first watching the bros as a toddler with Zoboomafoo, and I have grown up with Wild Kratts, from kindergarten to college. I owe the bros for opening my eyes to how amazing the creature world is. To celebrate, I wanted to share some episode ideas I came up with:

Fish Hacking 101: Chris and Martin desire to master the hunting techniques of the mysterious tentacled snake. But to Gourmand, the obscure serpent is just another ingredient for his latest dish.

Yetis and Leopards: To keep the bros away while they plan a surprise party, Aviva sends the bros looking for snow leopards. However, they find the mysterious cats much quicker than expected, forcing Aviva to keep the bros away from the Tortuga by baiting them with a Yeti robot she built, but snow leopards are great hunters.

Upriver With a Paddlefish: During Tortuga maintenance day, Koki goes kayaking, when she is hit by a jumping sturgeon. Injured and with her creature pod busted, the brothers find an unlikely hope in another strange looking fish.

Inferno the Fire Hawk: While visiting Australia, the crew observe a black kite intentionally setting fires. Paisley learns of this too, and hires Zach to mind control the birds into obeying her.

Dot and Stripe's Big Day: The crew have successfully rehabilitated a pair of orphaned Malayan tapir twins. But the spots the crew have chosen to release the siblings in have each been claimed by older, tougher tapirs. Aviva gives the bros Tapir powers so they can traverse the jungle and find new, suitable territory for the twins.

Ice Day for Salamanders: In the most ambitious experiment yet, the brothers freeze themselves alive in Siberian Salamander Powers for a day. However, Paisley abducts the brothers, intending to auction them off to the other villains to finance her schemes.

The Perfect Mudskipper Name: Martin's attempt to ride a mudskipper lead to him loosing his suit, and a mudskipper merging with it, like Seven did. The now humanoid fish kicks the gang out of the Tortuga, and all efforts to get him out of the ship and the suit fail. The brothers must learn to fight like a mudskipper to win their ship back, and get the fish back to normal.

Parrotfish Beach: While at the beach, Martin chances across a parrotfish. Not having seen one of the vibrant fish since they saved some from Zach and Donita, the team get to work to make a new suit. Meanwhile, Paisley has decided to create her newest road right through the reef, using a monstrosity of a machine she calls, "The Colossus of Roads".

Nudibranch Bingo: After finding a Blue Dragon Sea Slug, the brothers head to the Philippines in a game to see who can find the most species of sea slugs. Unbeknownst to them, Donita has hacked their cameras, so she can find and collect the colorful invertebrates to use in her newest designs, having grown bored of regular gems and jewels.

Hagfish Day: After finding out hagfish have a day dedicated to them, yet barely anybody knows about them, the brothers take the Pulponaut to the bottom of the sea to look for the elusive slime eels.

Jimmy and the Silverback: While his friends go off with a Gorilla troop, Jimmy laments his fear getting in the way of his desire to explore. Fortunately for him, another troop comes to the Tortuga. Unfortunately, the bros, Aviva, Koki, and the first troop, get in trouble, and Jimmy must step up to save his friends, and the gorilla.s

What Big Teeth You Have: While diving, the brothers chance upon a den of Wolf Eels and their eggs. Soon though, the bros must take up the duty to defend the nest after the parents are injured. While their friends take care of the expecting parents, Chris and Martin must keep the eggs safe. But competition is fierce. Octopus and other Wolf Eels want the den, and the brothers must keep them away.

Do the Velvet Worm: The brothers are on a long overdue adventure to find the rare and mysterious velvet worm, who thrive in wet and warm environments. But Paisley's newest scheme threatens to destroy the home of the worms, and all the other creatures there.

Keeping up with the Hornbills: Chris and Martin seal themselves in with an expecting mother Hornbill so that they can document the process, but when Donita teams up with Paisley to collect animals from the forest she is destroying, the tree the bros are in gets tossed into the river.

Condor Crash Course: A malfunction of the Tortuga's new autopilot system causes the ship to crash at the end of the Andes Mountains, and the crew are stuck at the other end. Martin thinks they could traverse the mountains with condor powers, but the trick is to find the birds first.

Quetzals of Then and Now: Aviva tells her friends the story of how her grandmother obtained the feathers of the Corcovado family birdie in a massive creature adventure.

Four Kratts and Some Saigas: The brothers' sisters come to visit, but creature adventuring doesn't stop for family reunions. The crew get a call of a herd of Saiga suffering from a bacteria infection.

Vampire Deer: The brothers learn about Chinese Water Deer, which have fangs in lieu of antlers. But the investigation into these weird deer is interrupted by Donita, who wants to use the deer as material for her new line of formal wear: Donita's Deer-est.

24 Hours in Lake Baikal: From freshwater seals to special sponges, and even weird natural formations, the record-holding Lake Baikal has caught the brothers' interest. It has also caught the interest of Gourmand and Paisley, who team up to make sure the brothers don't interfere.

Queen of the Meerkats: Struck by how fierce meerkats are, Zach captures the head female and several others to use in his new line of "Zach-Tion Figure" toys. Chris and Martin must save the meerkats while their friends keep what's rest of the fragile hierarchy from falling apart.

Olm's World: The brothers realized they never got around to making Olm powers. They return to Europe to find the mysterious "human-fish", so they can figure out the secrets of the unique salamander, such as how it can live for so long despite being blind.

Jamming With Moths: While building more bat boxes for their friend Bite-Size, Chris realizes the Little-Brown Bat, and all the other bats, are struggling to catch moths. The team is spurred by curiosity to determine whether the echolocation of a bat is truly a fool proof adaptation.

Be the Bee Eater: Bee Eaters are disappearing, and Zach is behind it. He plans to mind control the birds and sell them around the world as insect catchers.

Jumping Spider Jubilee: The crew split up to find the most unique species of jumping spiders. They will meet hunters, dancers, and even one little spider who lives up very high.

Night with a Not-Lizard: Impatient to study tuataras, a miniaturized Chris injures his leg, and he must use his skills, and the powers of the Tuatara, to avoid rats and other hungry predators to get back to the Tortuga.

[cloudyswritings]

Hollow knight bugs and real world species: P2

Hornet: So we know that Hornet is the daughter of the pale king and Herrah, making her some sort of biological monstrosity. But what bug is she based on? My best bet would be a horned orb weaver, specifically either a long-horned orb-weaver or Gasteracantha versicolor based on coloration and her horns.

Zote: So the in game/logical answer is that zote is whatever type of generic beetle that team cherry concocted from stag, Hercules, and rhinoceros beetles. However I think that’s really boring, I personally subscribe to one of the single best crackfics in the fandom Camouflage of Great Renown and think zote is a nosk that left Hallownest and lost his memories before retuning and adopting his persona. It’d even explain how he’s actually really hard to damage(see coliseum) and how he keeps getting places before ghost does.

Midwife: So I’ve seen a lot of people headcanon that she’s a centipede of some sort, and it kinda makes sense? Like centipedes are actually really good at caring for their young and protect them until they’re able to hunt on their own, so I think it’s a plausible and likely theory. That’s said I’d like to present some alternative ideas. Midwife to me, looks a lot more like she has an earwigs body shape, based mostly on the width of her. That said her behavior matches up far better with a trapdoor spider and she lacks antennas. Overall I’d say a trapdoor spider is more likely as an alternative reading of her species.

Lord fool: So here’s the thing with lord fool, there’s a lot of evidence he’s a higher being of some sort. Most of it comes down to the way the fools, while infected, seem less damaged by the radiance and seem to keep a large portion of their mind intact. Plus his position-dead on his throne- seems earily similar to a certain pale wyrm. Interestingly however it seems like his mask is actually just a mask, because we can see the top of his head and it looks to just be soft carapace. He’s also got six limbs so we know he isn’t an arachnid, or crustacean. My best guess would be either a deathwatch beetle(the texture on them looks like a good match) or a more likely a green junebeetle. Him being a junebeetle also matches nicely with how the fools are regarded as invasive, or not belonging in Haloownest. My last theory is that the bug the colosseum is built in may be the Lord fools old shell, aka wyrm.

Bretta: She looks a lot like a hair soft-shelled beetle to me, but her colors are all wrong. Based on that I’d say she’s actually a female scarab of some sort(sorry y’all my beetle knowledge isn’t up to par just yet!!)

The Hunter: So I’m really and truly unconvinced that the hunter is a bug, or crustacean, or arachnid of any kind. Bro visibly has a spine of some sort and the only beings with hands remotely similar to his that we see are THK, The shade lord, and the collector. That said we do still know he has an exoskeleton. I’ll admit I’m kinda stumped, I’d love to hear what y’all think. Verdict: inconclusive.

Baldurs: So I’m pretty convinced that these fellas are a pill millipede of some sort, they have the right number of legs and do curl up for defense. Additionally they spit infection, which I imagine when non infected would be some sort of toxin— something millipedes are well known for.

Mosskin: So this covers the mosskin as a whole, I’ll probably make a post for them specifically eventually. They’re obviously creatures that are in a symbiotic relationship with plants(because Unn). The only ones I feel super comfortable giving a specific species atm are the moss chargers who I feel are a species of velvet worm, mostly due to Unn being a big old slug and them living in a more tropical region. These velvet worms essentially copied the homework of the leaf sheep sea slug—which steals its ability to photosynthesize from the algae it eats.

That’s it for now!!

[futurebird]

Invertober 2023!

Invertober is back! The (mandatory) drawing challenge where you draw an invertebrate every day. It's for everyone and *mandatory.* Last year they had no ants on the list! I was very upset... this year there is one ant... an improvement, still so much more room to grow!

Let's shoot for 10 ants next year.

OK here is what you need to draw each day for the month:

Sunburst diving beetle (Themanectus marmoratus)

Silvery leaf cutter bee (Megachile leachella)

Little fire ant (Wasmannia auropunctata)

Emerald green snail (Papustyla pulcherrima)

Citrus root weevil (Diaprepes abbreviatus)

Coconut octopus (Amphioctopus marginatus)

Common banded hover fly (Syrphus ribesii)

Calico Crab (Hepatus epheliticus)

Elephant hawk moth (Deilephila elpenor)

Periodical cicada (Magicicada septendecim)

Fruit fly (Drosophila melanogaster)

Eelgrass isopod (Pentidotea resecata)

Devastating grasshopper (Melanoplus devastator)

Blue glaucus (Glaucus atlanticus)

Owlfly (Libelloides macaronius)

Fuchsia flatworm (Pseudoceros ferrugineus)

Blue morpho (Morpho peleides)

Reddish-brown stag beetle (Lucanus capreolus)

White-spotted jellyfish (Phyllorhiza punctata)

European mantis (Mantis religiosa)

Pink crab spider (Thomisus onustus)

Red velvet ant (Dasymutilla occidentalis)

Asian forest scorpion (Heterometrus spinifer)

African monarch (Danaus chrysippus)

Horned sea star (Protoreaster nodosus)

Torpedo bug (Siphanta acuta)

Iceland scallop (Chlamys islandica)

Striped pajama squid (Sepioloidea lineolata)

Tiger centipede (Scolopendra polymorpha)

Leopard slug (Limax maximus)

Halloween pennant (Celithemis eponina)

Let's goooo!

[sharkface]

My favorite animals include velvet worms, centipedes, mantises, blue ring octopi, sharks, sea slugs, shrimp, cicadas, ants, and otters. What does that say about me as a person other than "aspires to be an entomologist"