Animals with Patterns are the most amazing features as they reveal many secrets of nature in terms of shapes, colors, and so on.
So now, In this Article, We shall discover the ‘Animals with Patterns’ and the secrets and functions of their patterns as well.
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Animals With Patterns:
Flamingo Tongue Snail
The flamingo tongue snail is a small and colorful sea snail that belongs to Genus Cyphoma, Family Ovulidae, and is found in the coral reefs of the Caribbean, the tropical western Atlantic, and other parts of the oceans.
They have a pink or brilliant orange color pattern with spots with a black outline on their shell because of the presence of the living mantle tissue on them. These unique colors are obtained through its diets.
Surprisingly, These patterns with brilliant colors are not present on the shells but are from the mantle tissue covering its shells.
Christmas tree worm
A Christmas tree worm is a beautiful worm that belongs to Genus Spirobranchus, Family Serpulidae, and is found in coral reefs of the sea.
They are really cool marine creatures as they have brightly colored crowns that vary by color. Its crown is made up of hair-like structures called radioles that are highly ciliated. These radioles undergo spiral patterns to increase their surface area used for respiration and catch its foods such as microscopic plants, or phytoplankton.
Surprisingly, Its hair-like structures spiral on the central axes making themselves look like a Christmas tree.
Grooved Brain Coral
A grooved brain coral is a Cnidaria that belongs to Genus Diploria, Family Mussidae, and is found in the western Atlantic Ocean, Caribbean Sea, the Gulf of Mexico, the southern tip of Florida, the Bahamas, Bermuda, and Central America.
These animals have a body that looks like a brain pattern. As a reef-building coral, they have a hemispherical, brain-like shape with varieties of colors such as brown, yellow, or grey.
Its grooves that look like the folds of brain tissue are actually a characteristic feature of them containing polyps that secrete a hard skeleton of calcium carbonate and is responsible for making their body look like a brain.
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Venus fan
A Venus fan, also known as Venus sea fan, common sea fan, West Indian sea fan, and purple gorgonian sea fan, is a sessile colonial soft coral that belongs to Genus Gorgonia, Family Gorgoniidae, and is found in the Bahamas, Florida, and other parts of the ocean.
By looking at the picture you can think it is not an animal but that’s wrong. These are fan-shaped marine animals. It is a coral with many polyps, a small organism that can grow together in a flat fanlike pattern and live in colonies.
Interestingly, they form living nets and their shape is formed by the water current or waves. It can secrete chemicals for protecting itself.
Sea pen
A Sea pen is a group of cnidarian that belongs to Order Pennatulacea, Class Anthozoa, and is found in tropical and temperate waters worldwide.
They are called sea pens because of their resemblance to an antique quill pen. It is a group of animals called polyps living together in a certain pattern to make look like an antique quill pen and each of them has eight tentacles to catch foods that may share with others as well.
Surprisingly, They have a feather-like appearance and can glow upon touching or stimulating.
Blue Sea Dragon
A blue sea dragon, also known as sea swallow, blue angel, blue glaucus, dragon slug, blue dragon, blue sea slug, blue ocean slug, is a sea slug that belongs to Genus Glaucus, Family Glaucidae, and is found in Africa, Coast of Australia, Gulf of California, and also throughout the world’s ocean.
They have a colorful pattern with thin appendages. It is a sea slug with the silvery grey color of the dorsal surface, and dark with pale blue color on the ventral surface. The dark blue and grey color on its six appendages makes them look alien as well as frightening.
Interestingly, These slugs float on the water surface through the surface tension due to its long, thin, and colorful appendages -that’s really mind blowing.
Zebra
The Zebras is a large-sized mammal that belongs to Genus Equus, Family Equidae, and is found in Ethiopia, Northern Kenya, Namibia, eastern Africa, southern Africa, Angola, and other parts of the world, including zoos.
They have a black and white striped pattern of fur that extends from head to tail. Each individual zebra is unique because of its unique striped patterns. The stripes passing through its body are separate, in other words, they usually do not intersect with other stripes. Therefore, we can see unique stripes around the eyes, lower jaws, and other parts of their body.
Surprisingly, The pattern of zebras makes them unique and identifiable through their stripes-that’s really cool. These alternate stripes of white and black pattern acts as sunscreen and repels the blood sucking insects and leeches.
Sea Urchin
A Sea urchin is a globular spiny aquatic creature that belongs to Class Echinoidea, Phylum Echinodermata, and is found in all the oceans of many countries.
On their spherical bodies, they possess more spines in a regular pattern all over the body to avoid and escape from potential predators. Along with spines they also possess venomous organs, and pedicellariae capable of puncturing other animal skin. As they belong to Echinodermata, they have tube feet with ball-and-socket joints that can be used for locomotion on the ocean floor.
We can see amazing patterns in these animals. They are not made of bones like us but are made of calcium carbonate plates that are repeated in a unique pattern to build and support their body.
Star-nosed mole
The star-nosed mole is a species of mole that belongs to Genus Condylura, Family Talpidae, and is an underground living animal that is found in Canada, the northern US, and other places.
The star-nosed mole has a nose with a star pattern because of about 22 fleshy pink-colored appendages called rays present on the nose. These appendages have as many as about 25,000 tiny sensory receptors that are better at touch sensitivity but are not meant for smelling-that’s unbelievable.
Through these fleshy appendages or rays, they can feel the surrounding environment as they have poor eye-sight and are even able to hunt in the darkness.
Tiger
The tiger is a large carnivorous mammal that belongs to Genus Panthera, Family Felidae, and is found in many countries including Russia, India, Nepal, Bhutan, Laos, Cambodia, Malaysia, and Indonesia.
They have a brown and white striped pattern of fur. Each tiger individual has a unique pattern of stripes because these brown and white stripes occur in a certain and unique pattern. Thus, no two tigers can have an exactly similar brown and white stripe of fur.
Surprisingly, Tiger is the only cat species that has complete stripes, even it has stripes on its skin-that’s a really amazing fact.
Ice cream cone worm
An ice cream cone worm, also known as the trumpet worm, is a marine worm that belongs to Family Pectinariidae, Order Terebellida, and is found in ocean floors across many countries.
They have a body of an ice cream cone pattern that is made up of sand grains. It has a long ice cream cone-shaped body that can reach up to 2 inches in length along with hardened hairs called paleae as spiky eyelashes that are located in a wider part of its cone and are used for searching foods.
Surprisingly these worms build their cone or tube shape of body around them by using sand grains. This body is usually present in a vertically upside-down position, where a narrow end is above and wider is below, in mud or seafloor.
Giraffe
The giraffe is the largest ruminant belonging to the Genus Giraffa, Family Giraffidae, and is found in Africa, and other places.
The giraffe has a distinctive spot pattern that is unique to each individual. Similar to human fingerprints, no two giraffes can have exactly the same pattern. It has uniform light tan-colored skin with a similar pattern relative to its fur. This pattern of coat acts as a sunscreen and is also known to give a better camouflage ability.
Interestingly, The coat pattern is also present on its skin to help in thermoregulation because its underneath skin has a sophisticated system of blood vessels that assists in regulating body heat.
Clownfish
A clownfish is a marine fish belonging to Genus Amphiprion, Family Pomacentridae, and lives around the corals and anemones.
They have vertical and colorful stripe patterns. There are four vertical orange color stripes located between the three white color stripes along with a border of black lines. The first orange stripe is located on the mouth and eyes, while the second stripe is white in color located after the mouth and eyes. Similarly, the same alternative patterns of white and orange stripes continue one after the other.
This pattern of alternative, vertical and white and orange color stripes make them look so beautiful fishes.
Fried Egg Jellyfish
The fried egg jellyfish, also known as egg-yolk jellyfish, is a species of Jellyfish that belongs to Genus Phacellophora, Family Phacellophoridae, and is found in the Mediterranean, Adriatic, Aegean Seas, and the Atlantic Ocean.
They have a fried egg pattern or egg-yolk pattern. It has a jelly-like substance filled inside its body with a yolk like a yellow-colored substance in the center of its body that makes it look like eggs with its yolk. Therefore, they are called fried egg jellyfish.
Surprisingly, Crabs and other animals take a ride on the fried egg jellyfish to move from one place to another. Young juvenile jackfish take protection inside these jellyfishes because their stinging tentacles protect them.
Leafy seadragon
The leafy seadragon, also known as Glauert’s seadragon, is a sea fish that belongs to Genus Phycodurus, Family Syngnathidae, and is found in southern Australian, Wilson’s Promontory, Jurien Bay, Western Australia, and other parts of the ocean.
A striking feature of these fishes is their leaf-like pattern present all over the body making them resemble floating seaweed. They have long leaf life structures that are not meant for propulsion but mainly to help them in camouflage. However, for propulsion, they have transparent fins, pectoral fins, dorsal fins, tail fins, and other fins that move slowly.
Surprisingly, The leaf-like pattern on its body gives the appearance of floating seaweed.
Dalmatian
The Dalmatian is a domestic dog breed that is famous for its white coat with spots on it. Interestingly, because of its familiarity they have many names such as the Firehouse Dog, the English Coach Dog, the Spotted Coach Dog, and the Carriage Dog.
The adults of a Dalmatian dog have spot patterns, black or brown-colored spots, that are unique to each of the individuals. Therefore, no two individuals of dalmatian species can have the same pattern or number of spots, thus its spots, location, size, and pattern acts similar to the fingerprints of humans for them.
Surprisingly, The newborn baby of a dalmatian puppy isn’t born with spots. However, The puppies will develop black spots after birth. Thus, A first spot appears on their white coat when they become 10 days old. Further spots occur as they continue to mature into adults.
An amazing fact about their spots is, They can vary in colors such as black, brindle, blue, orange, and lemon, and spots can even occur in their mouth.
Cuban Painted Snail
The cuban painted snail, also known as the oriente tree snail, is a beautiful snail that belongs to Genus Polymita, Family Helminthoglyptidae, and is found in
They have spiral patterned shells with shiny and brilliant colored shells. These shells can reach a length of about one inch. Usually, They have a bright yellow-colored shell with white stripes. These Cuban painted snails are famous for their many varieties of colorful shells.
Surprisingly, because of their colorful and shiny features, they are used as jewelry and trinkets.
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