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REP: Manta seatowel by ~Ramul:iconRamul:

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Although the manta seatowel may not look very different from the other seatowel species, there are important anatomical differences that make it stand out. Being a plancton feeder, it has a brush-like tongue to filter its food out of the water. Since tetragnathes use their tongues also as genitals, this development Led the manta seatowel to parthogenetic reproduction.

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~Tabon Mar 5, 2008, 9:01:17 AM
how big is this thing?

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~Ramul Mar 5, 2008, 9:32:03 AM
7-12 metre fin span, depending on the species.
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~hashisher Mar 5, 2008, 7:32:54 PM
Holy S***!
Big fish-type thing!
Slightly related: how big are manta rays? They occupy a similar niche in our world, but I don't know offhand how big they get...
Do you have pictures of other types of seatowels?

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~Ramul Mar 6, 2008, 3:34:43 AM
Almost 8 metres, according to Wikipedia. Finsuckers ( [link] )are a seatowel family, other seatowels will be done.
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~hashisher Mar 7, 2008, 9:26:12 AM
They are also... Tetragnathes(sp)? Is that name in reference to their four (tetra) jawbones?
They're cool regardless. Convergence! Similar niche = similar creature filling it.

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~Ramul Mar 7, 2008, 11:30:13 AM
Yes, "tetragnathe" refers to the quadruple jaws and means all four-jawed, six-eyed and six-legged/horicontally-finned animals on the REP sheets. They are similar to earth's chordates.
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~PousazPower Mar 8, 2008, 9:27:59 PM
How would filter feeding lead to parthenogenesis?
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~Ramul Mar 9, 2008, 2:26:21 AM
As explained, they use their tongue for filter feeding and at the same time as genitals. Because of the brush-like shape of the tongue the mating process became very difficult, so parthenogenesis was an advantage to them.
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