Leviathan Press: Allow me to twist the building, isn't the shape of these guys in this article the spaceship in the Ray Ye Alien... In particular, the gill-dragging phylum Priapulida and the intestinal gill helminth (Enteropneusta).
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In the vast ocean, there is mystery everywhere, and there is Tintin everywhere. Biologists have noticed this too. Some marine animals look particularly like Tintin, like no one dares to cover up the truth with a veil of irony. I mean, there are some sea creatures whose scientific names have the word "Tintin."
You might be surprised when you see recent popular animals, peanut worms or sibucula, but they haven't bothered biologists much. We took the opportunity to extend an invitation to researchers at the Chicago Field Museum to help put together a list of "marine life like Tintin." They gladly accepted the invitation and presented us with the "indescribable" magical creatures below.
Ichthyologist Caleb McMaha tells us: "It [the presence of these creatures] tells people that biological diversity is very crazy. Learn about it (the stories of these creatures) and you'll learn something. In this way, it seems that pointing out the "Tintin" qualities of marine life can also make people educated.
Yes, no thanks to me.
Creatures named after the Roman god "One Pillar of Optimus Prime"
Image source: Shunkina Ksenia/Wikimedia Commons
The gill-twired phylum Priapulida is a second-order taxonomy of the "genus Phytopodidae" of the biological kingdom, and is a group of animals that look like Tintin. Its name, Prapulida, reveals its essence: the word derives from the greek mythology of Priapus, the god of fertility, known for his erection of Tintin. The name priapism for persistent penile erection also comes from this. It seems that whoever named this species after Priapulida knew it all: these creatures looked too much like Tintin.
Jochen Gerber, collection manager for the Invertebrate Family at the Field Museum, explains that these worms live mainly in sediments. Their body shape is sleek and streamlined, making it easy to drill in and out of these deposits. Bulky or rounded bodies can be counterproductive and detrimental to action.
Gerber tells us: "Their lifestyle does not require a major appendage such as the legs, which is a good fit for them." ”
Huge and terrible elephant mussels
图源：The Evergreen State College/Wikimedia Commons
As many people know, the giant geoduck (scientific name Pacific mud clam) looks like a tintin. You can check out the articles on Serious Eats and Eater that teach you how to handle elephant mussels. Gerber didn't explain much, saying, "It's shaped like Tintin, and it's a Tintin that hasn't been circumcised." ”
Why did it grow like this? Elephant mussels are probably the largest burrowing clams in the world. Unlike the giant clams that live on the surface of the sand, the elephant clams live under the mud. They use a siphon structure that looks like tintin to absorb water, filter it, and feed it to plankton.
Eater says elephant mussels are a delicacy on the table, and the market price can reach 20 to 30 US dollars per pound. Chef Ethan Stowell said in an interview with Food Magazine: "This is absolutely unique in the Northwest, and I think we should be proud of it... It's a raw elephant mussel, and it's as sweet as anything else from the ocean. ”
Fish that look particularly like Tintin
Image source: Citron/Wikimedia Commons
The Mexican wèi (Thermarces cerberus) is not only an invertebrate that looks like a male genitalia, it also looks like an eel. They live in hydrothermal vents (Editor's Note) that spew water from the ocean floor that has been heated by geothermal heat and its crack vents. It is usually found in areas with frequent volcanic activity, continental plate movement, and near sea basins and hot spots. The fish is lightly flesh-colored, similar in color to other creatures that live in the deep sea. McMahan said: "Like most deep-sea fish, their appearance is only to adapt to such a living environment, to withstand the high temperature of what spews out of the hot spring vents." ”
I asked McMahan if the fish had any other characteristics besides its tintin-like appearance. He replied no, "Every time I ask people what it looks like, the first thing they think of is Tintin. ”
"Acorn worms" with acorn-like glands
图源:Spengel, Johann Wilhelm/Wikimedia . Commons/Public Domain
Acorn worms are commonly known as Enteropneusta . As we can guess from its name, it has an acorn-shaped gland at its end. Acorn worms, like other marine worms, live in sediment.
But one thing you have to know is that in English we call the top of the tintin glans, and in Gerber's native German, the glans is called eichel, which literally translates to acorn. Gerber said, "The meaning is clear. But what were the people who took these names 150-200 years ago? ”
Single ring spiny mite, delicious phallic fish
图源：J. Patrick Fischer/Wikimedia Commons
Urechis unicinctus is commonly known as "phallic fish", also known as sea intestine.
The phallic fish is actually a worm, and like other worms that look like Tintin, they live in underwater sediment. It is a common food in Asian supermarkets, and many people have written about the fish on the Internet and described its taste.
At this thought, I suddenly and unconsciously clamped my legs.
Don't be fooled by this fish with the name "vagina"
图源：Siokou-Frangou et al, Mediterranean Marine Science（2013）
Ha, you might be thinking, this is obviously a list of "sea creatures like Tintin", but now you show me the Trypauchen vagina?! Really big husband? The fish has a "vagina" in its name! In fact, the goby is also called burrowing goby, and it also looks like tintin. Vagina here does not refer to genitalia in English, but to "sheath" in Latin.
Goby are another slender, pale pink fish that live in sandy marine environments. But didn't the people who named the fish at the time find that it looked like Tintin? Gave it such a stupid name. McMahan said: "The time this fish was named is said to be in the early 20th century. The first people to notice the fish gave it that name. "The first thing they noticed was probably its flesh pink.
McMahan said: "It looks like the Mexican warm woolly fish, it really has a Tintin-like appearance. ”
Tintin Tintin
Image: Nithyanandan Manickam, Nature Singapore (2011)
Verpa penis is not necessarily the creature that looks the most like Tintin, but its name must be the most "Tintin", and the literal translation of this phrase is "Tintin Tintin". There is a long story behind the name.
Carolus Linnaeus proposed the biological two-name nomenclature, aka the two-name method. Because it was so long, he initially named the creature Serpula penis: serpula means small snake, penis means Tintin. This creature is also known as the kettle clam.
Later, a French biologist believed that the animal belonged to a different genus and that it should be called Penicillus penis, but the penicillus name had already been taken up by other mollusks. Finally, the German molluscologist Peter Friedrich Röding stepped forward and coined a new genus name for Tintin: Verpa. The word is exactly the Latin slang for penis.
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