Elephant clam (scientific name: Panopea abrupta): The biological name is the Pacific mud clam, also known as the emperor clam, the goddess clam, and the seafood trade name "elephant clam". The two shells are as large, thin and brittle, with serrated front ends, side shells, and water pipes (also known as tentacles).
It is a high-quality seafood in the Far East, including Chinese and Japanese. Origin is off the coast of the North Pacific in the United States and Canada. Because of its large and succulent red tube, it resembles an elephant's nose (elephant plucking) and is known as "elephant pulling mussels". The locals do not eat elephant mussels, so elephant mussels grow well. But since Asian immigrants began preying on North American elephant mussels, the local elephant mussels have become endangered. In 1996, artificial farming began in the Chinese market.
Hook blind snake
(Scientific name: Ramphotyphlops braminus) also known as the ear snake, is a non-venomous snake species in the family Blind Snake, mainly distributed in Africa and Asia, but now the distribution of hooked blind snake has been extended to all parts of the world. The hook-blind snake is a snake species that inhabits the ground hole, because of its small size and good at digging holes, it is often mistaken for an earthworm, the only difference is that the body of the hook-blind snake is not divided into obvious segments. The scientific name of the hooked blind snake is Latinized from the Hindu term "Brahmin". There are currently no confirmed subspecies under the hook-blind snake.
The Phylum of the genus Ringworm, like other species of the genus Spiny Mite, is a living in the intertidal mud of the seashore
Tubular insects in the substrate or coral reef area are mainly distributed in Weihai City, Yantai and other places along the Yellow Sea and the Bohai Sea coast. The season of single-ringed thorny mites is high and can only be caught in the spring when the wind and waves are strong. The cave of the single ring of thorny mites is U-shaped, and the mouth of the cave is chimney-shaped.
The single ring thorny mite is large in size, with a long snout at the front of the body for foraging; it is extremely elastic, can be extended to more than one meter, and uses its stickiness to stick to the bottom of the small animal or organic particles, because the snout is easy to be pecked by seabirds because the snout is foraging outside, and it is highly regenerative. The single ring thorn mite, which inhabits mudflats, has good sand diving ability and can dive to more than 40 cm.
Monocyclic prickly insects have a strong tolerance and detoxification ability to sulfides, so they are used as model organisms for coastal sulfide metabolism related research.
Single ring thorn mites are mainly distributed in the coastal mudflats or rock crevices of Yantai, Qingdao and other places in Shandong. The Jiaodong region of Shandong is the largest producer of single ring thorn aphid in China. There are also reports of single-ringed spiny mites found off the coast of Xiamen, Fujian Province.
Sea coconut
Evergreen trees. The trunk is straight, 15-30 m tall, single canopy, neat. Leaf pinnate fully lobed, 4-6 m long, lobed mostly, leathery, linear lanceolate, 65–100 cm long, 3–4 cm wide apex tapering; The petiole is stout and more than 1 m long. The inflorescence is axillary, 1.5–2 m long, and multi-branched. Male flowers are concentrated in the upper part of the branches, and female flowers are scattered in the lower part; Male flowers with sepals 3, scaly, 3-4 mm long, petals 3, leathery, ovate oblong, 1 -1.5 cm long; 6 stamens; The female flower has several small bracts at the base, the sepals are leathery, round, about 2.5 cm wide, and the petals are similar to the sepals, but smaller. Nuts are inverted ovate or nearly spherical, with a triangular apex, 15-25 cm long, bony inner peel, 3 germination holes near the base, and 1 seed; Inside the endosperm there is a cavity rich in juice. The fruit of the sea coconut is 35 to 50 cm wide. The sea coconut has a spongy fibrous shell on the outside, and when the shell is peeled off, it is a nut. One fruit of the sea coconut weighs up to 25 kilograms, and the nuts in it also weigh 15 kilograms, making it the largest nut in the world and is known as the "most heavyweight coconut".
abalone
On the outside of the abalone's body, it is covered with a thick calcareous shell, and its shell is a right-handed spiral shell. The single-wall shell of the abalone is hard in texture, the shell is right-handed, and the surface is dark greenish brown. The inside of the shell is purple, green, white and other colors, and the pearlescent is precious.
In addition, on the shell of the abalone there is a spiral arrangement of protrusions that gradually increase from the top of the shell to the ventral surface. These protrusions run through some of the holes near the end of the spiral layer, and the number of holes varies by species. There are 4 to 5 Panda bao distributed in northern China, and 7 to 9 variegated abalone distributed in the south. In ancient China, the abalone was named "nine-hole snail", which is derived from its characteristics.
The soft part has a wide flat fleshy foot, the soft body is flat oval, yellow-white, the large one resembles a tea bowl, and the small one resembles a copper coin. The abalone is attached to the rock by this thick foot and flat plantar surface, crawling through the reef sheds and burrows. The adhesion of the abalone meat foot is quite amazing. An abalone with a shell length of 15 cm has a suction force of up to 200 kg. No matter how strong the wind and waves attack, they cannot lift it. When catching abalone, you can only take advantage of its lack of preparation, and use the shovel to shovel or overturn it with lightning speed, otherwise you will not be able to take it off even if you smash its shell.
The head of the abalone is well developed, and its two antennae are very thin and long when stretched. There is a short protrusion on each dorsal side of the base of the antennae, and the end of the protrusion grows the eye. There is a head lobe between the two antennae, and the ventral surface of the head lobe has a forward-extending kiss, and the front of the kiss has a mouth. Inside the mouth there are powerful teeth and tongues, which are endemic to many shellfish, and it is a chitinoid band with many columns of small teeth on it, shaped like a file, and shellfish use these small teeth to scrape and grind food. Generally speaking, the number of small teeth of herbivorous species is large, and the number of small teeth of the first garden and carnivorous species is small, but it is strong, and the apex often has hooks or thorns. Abalone is a herbivorous species, so it has a large number of small teeth on the tongue band.
The abalone's feet are particularly thick and divided into upper and lower parts. The upper foot has many antennae and mounds to sense the outside world; the lower foot is oval when stretched, and the ventral surface is flat, suitable for attachment and crawling. We eat abalone mainly by eating the muscles of its feet.
The mantle membrane of the abalone is the same shape as the shell, covering the entire back of the body, unlike other snails there is a crack on the right side of the abalone mantle membrane, and the position of this crack is equivalent to the position of the hole at the edge of the shell, and tentacles grow on the edge of the crack. When the abalone is active, these tentacles protrude from the shell hole, which is the role of the sense of taste. Cracks in the edges of the mantle membrane are characteristic of primitive gastropods, such as the seam snail, the famous red ong rong, and the keyhole snail.
Lip flower
The plant evolved into this shape to attract pollinators such as hummingbirds and butterflies, and because of its bright color, people figuratively called hooker (hooker) (prostitute). It grows at an altitude of 350–1300 m in broad-leaved forests, hillside forests, and tropical forest shrublands. However, due to uncontrolled deforestation in these countries, the plant is on the verge of extinction.
Naked Male Orchid
Italian Red Gate Orchid (scientific name: Orchis italica Poir. ), also known as nude orchid, Italian man orchid, is a species of orchid in the genus Red Gate orchid, the plant is 20-50 cm tall, the flower top is raw, white pink or purple, the flower cover is helmet-shaped, with dark stripes, and the whole flower is shaped like a naked man wearing a straw hat. The capsules stand upright. Flowering period is from April to May.
The growing environment is grassland, limestone land, abandoned arable land, jungle areas. Native to the Mediterranean.
The flowering period is 3 to 5 months. Its appearance is extremely diverse, the whole flower is about 30 to 40 cm high, the inflorescence is cylindrical, the spherical spikes are about 5 to 15 cm long, and the flowers are yellow, red, purple and other different colors. It grows in grasslands and limestone lands. The calyx is straw hat-shaped, the flower buds are pale pink and purple, and the lip-like petals resemble human hands and feet.