For this project we had to research 9 different spooky halloween creatures. For each creature we had to list, their scientific name, a description, their habitat, where they live, their lifestyle, and any unusual charecteristics. All of these animals look weird or just have some sort of spooky name.
1.Bat rays: Myliobats Californica. Kind of like a sting ray with out a stinger. They like muddy or sandy sloughs, estauaries and bays. Located in the eastern pacific ocean from Oregon to the gulf of California. They feed on Mollusks, crustantions, and small fish. They mate once per year during spring and summer. They have sharp spines on their tail. link to youtube video. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qIyN4Bp-rvE
2. Ghost crabs: ocypodine. Small crabs in tropical shores. Prefer tropical or subtropical regions. They are located in north eastern America , santa catarina, Brazil. They live on beaches, and need to get their gills wet to live on land. Their pale body and color makes them nearly invisable on the sand. link to youtube video. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fvh1v9v9rkg
3. Goblin Shark: mitsukurina Owstoni. Shark with big mouth and forehead. they like outer continental shelves, upper slopes and seamounts. They are located all around the world. It lives in the ocean at deep depths, and they spend most of their time in the dark. These creatures have elongated flattened snout, and protruding jaws. link to youtube video. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fYpn2u2Wag4
4. Halloween crabs: Gecarcinus quadratus. A colorful sand crab. They live in Sand dunes and rainforests along the pacific coast. They eat coconuts. They also have a unique and buetiful color. link to youtube video. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VViQimvqxKA
5. Masked Pufferfish: Arotnron diadematus. This pufferfish is harmless and lives near warmer parts of the earth. This is distributed along the equater. It eats invertabraes and algae. They puff up to scare preditors away. link for youtube video. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fMDE1iU_lfg
6. Spookfish: opisthproctudae. Small deep sea fish. They like warm tropical temparete waters. They live in the Atlantic pacific oceans. They eat microcrustations and swim at 2000 meters down. They catch and find prey from their shadows. link for yotube video. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E5aL6YrLd7Y
7. zombie worms: osedax. deep sea worms that bore into bones of whale charcuses. Common on whale charecses in major oceans below 2500 meters. Spread throughout the worlds oceans. link for youtube video. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zeZNcDHDMzo
8.Goliath tiger fish: Hydrcynus goliath. Same build as a smaller tiger fish but goliath. They live in freshwater rivers and streams around the Congo river. They get to be 5 feet and 110 pounds. This is a link about the goaliath tiger fish on a show called river monsters. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ihvynXm77C8
Overall this project was fun learning about all of these different species of fish but the amount that we had to research for them may have been a little bit too much. Seeing pictures of all of these fish and animals was fun especially were they got to live. But next time maybe we should leave out finding a video about them. These species looked weird and some of them even lived around here like the bat rays. So I think that this project was solid, except for the amount of research we had to complete. I think that the research that my group and I gathered was solid, even if it was a little time consuming. The meme part of this project took a while, not because it was hard but just because I could not think of a funny meme to make. I would not mind doing this project again, but with different species.