Metazoa info

[Duke Guilmon]

White cave velvet worm



Peripatapis Alba

Length:10 cm

Weight:unknown

Life Expectancy:9-11 years

First appeared:unknown

Location: Like the name says, this animal likes to live in caves like the wynberg cave in south Africa. The caves must be deep, moist and dark.

Taxonomy:

Class:Udeonychophora
Order:Euonychophora
Familyeripatopsidae
Genuseripatopsis
Sepcieseripatopsis Alba

Diet: Eats insects and arachnids that live in its caves.

Anatomy: Like other velvet worms this animal has a slime gland in which to ensnare prey. They also have antenna. The most interesting is its hydrostatic skeleton. This skeleton is acted on by muscles, and provide internal bodily fluid.

Behavior:This animal is actually social. In fact they can eat in packs, and with a social hierarchy, with the dominant female feeding first,then other females, then the males, last the young get to eat. The hierarchy is based on how many social interactions an individual has had. Also the social interaction will lead to a clustering to form an aggregate. Males and females are the most common and cluster the best, males and males are the least common and get along the worst.

Reproduction: These animals reproduce sexually, but not much is known on its perental care or its reproductive cycle.

Interactions with other animals: Not much interaction is known outside humans, its prey and each other.


Just crawling around

Other sources:

http://www.iucnredlist.org/details/16618/0

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Giant Squid(requested by laza)



Architeuthis dux

Size: 43ft females, 33ft males

Weight: 606lbs females, 330lbs males

Life expectancy: Not known

When it first appeared:Not known

Location: Live in deep oceans. Have been found in different locations in every ocean besides Indian and Antarctic.



Taxonomy

Class:Cephalopoda
Subclass:Coleoidea
Cohort:Meocoleoidea
Superorderecapodiformes
Order:Teuthida
Superorderegopsina
Family:Acrchiteuthidae
Genus:Architeuthis
Species:Architeuthis Dux

Diet: They eat deep sea fish and other squid

Anatomy: These animals have the biggest eyes in the animal kingdom. They also have the most powerful tentacles of all squids.

Behavior: Not much is known accept that these animals are solitary.

Reproduction: Females lay 11lbs of eggs, each 0.20 to 0.055 inches long and 0.012 to 0.028in wide. Mating ritual is not really known, but it is said the males penis ejects sperm from a neeham's sac, and that females have a single median ovary near the rear mantle.

Interaction with other animals: Sperm whales are the rivals of these animals, as they are its prey. Sperm whales have been found with scars left by these animals.



WILL SHOW FACE FOR FOOD

Other sources:

http://animals.nationalgeographic.com/an...ant-squid/

http://ocean.si.edu/giant-squid

http://marinebio.org/species.asp?id=156

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Heart worm



Dirofilaria Immitis

Size: Females 10-12 inches, males 4-6 inches

Weight: No avaliable data

When if first appeared: In the cretaceous period around 100 million years ago

Location: Found around the world in the heart and lung arteries of other animals.

Taxonomy:

Class:Secerentea
Subclass:Spiruria
Order:Spirurida
Superfamily:Filarioidea
Familynchoceridae
Genusinofilaria
Speciesirofilaria Immitis

Diet: The host

Anatomy: No special anatomy

Behavior:This animal shares its home with others of its species,however there is no social interactions

Reproduction: Males and females mate in the heart and lung arteries. The eggs are released in the blood and is then sucked by a mosquito. The mosquito releases eggs into the next host.

Interactions with other animals: This animal is a parasite. Dogs, Cats, Wolves, Coyotes, Foxes, Ferrets, Sea lions, the African Leopard, Beavers, even Humans and Mosquitoes, though it is rare in humans and mosquitoes are just an intermediate host. Humans are the deadliest animal to the heartworm.



Strength in numbers they say

Other sources:

http://www.aspca.org/pet-care/dog-care/heartworm

http://www.capcvet.org/capc-recommendati...-heartworm

http://www.aspca.org/pet-care/cat-care/heartworm

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XMegatherium Americanum(requested by blackhand293)



Size: 20ft

Weight:4 tons

Life expectancy: Not known

When it first appeared: Late pliocene 2 million years ago.

Location: Fossils were found in LUjan River

Taxonomy:

Class: Mammalia
Clade:Holotheria
Superlegion:Trechontheria
Legion:Cladotheria
Sublegion:Zatheria
Infralegion:Tribosphenida
Subclass:theria
Clade:Eutheria
Infraclasslacentalia
Subcohort:Exafroplacentalia
Superorder:Xenarthra
Orderilasa
Suborder:Folivora
Family:XMegatheriidae
Tribe:XMegatherinni
Subtribe:XMegatheriina
Genus:XMegatherium
Type Species:XMegatherium Americanum

Diet: Is said to eat plants, but is also been claimed to also eat meat.

Anatomy: This giant sloth had large claws and its size indicates its muscles size. This shows that it had large muscles and had power to back up those claws. They also had a skeletal structure to allow them to stand.

Behavior: This animal is found as being social. Other than that nothing else is known about its behavior

Reproduction: Not known

Interaction with other animals: This animal was the smilodons worst enemy, as it could steal their kills with no backlash.


The fossil of the once powerful animal

Other sources:

http://www.nhm.ac.uk/nature-online/speci...index.html

http://www.abc.net.au/beasts/evidence/prog5/page4.htm

http://www.slothsanctuary.com/about-slot...und-sloth/