Marine inhabitants of the Red Sea

How amazing is the world of water! Until now, it can not be asserted that the depths of the oceans and seas have been fully studied by man. More and more often, people who are exploring the water element meet strange, simply fantastic marine dwellers.

Everybody knows fairy tales, which speak of sirens and mermaids - creatures with the appearance of beautiful naked women with a fish tail. Sirens in the legend have a magical voice, heard that people are stony. Today it is already known that almost all this is a fantasy. Except one - mermaids and sirens actually exist!

True, they are not very similar to beautiful women. These are the so-called dugongs - mammals of a detachment of sirens. In translation from the Malay language, this name means "sea maiden" or "mermaid".

Perhaps the way of their movement, which differs from the swimming of other inhabitants of the seas and oceans, confused those who met them at sea. After all, the marine inhabitants of the dugong "walk" along the bottom of shallows, leaning on the front fins, as if on arms. And when swimming these animals actively use the tail. Only young individuals use pectoral fins for swimming.

And about the mermaid songs and say nothing! Continuous mockery! After all, "sea maidens" are usually extremely silent. Only frightened or excited individuals are able to make a sharp whistle. Cubs the same dugong and at all can only bleat, like the earth's sheep. What songs are there?

Speaking of the inhabitants of the sea, one can not help but recall such wonderful creatures as octopuses. These marine inhabitants belong to the cephalopod mollusks, that is, all their eight toe-legs grow out of the head. Their octopus uses to capture food. And if the otomin-baby is able to evoke tenderness, then the adults of some species are quite aggressive and dangerous to humans.

It is especially interesting for ichthyologists of the Red Sea water. Here you can find a bottlenose dolphin and a green turtle, sharks and moray eels.

Fish Napoleon - one of the amazing fish living in the Red Sea. The name of these very rare marine inhabitants received for a peculiar growth on the frontal part of the head.

In general, the waters of the Red Sea are replete with different kinds of fish, capable of shaking any imagination by their appearance. For example, a clown fish or a sultan.

Also bright and attractive is butterfly fish. What are not cartoon characters?

The sea inhabitants of the Red Sea, like sea cucumbers , are also striking people with their appearance . In another way, they are also called sea kubyshkami or holothuria. These are invertebrate echinoderms, which mostly prefer to lie on the sea or ocean floor. There are about 1150 species of these creatures.

Meat of sea cucumbers people consume, their poison is used in pharmacology. But the sea inhabitants are not averse to feasting on holothurians. Therefore, in case of danger, the sea cucumber can shoot into the water through the anal opening with the part of the intestine along with the water lungs, thereby distracting or frightening the attacker. Interesting is the fact that the lost organs in the echinoderm invertebrate are restored extremely quickly.