Taxonomy
The scientific study of fish
What is ichthyology?
A pinniped native to the Galapagos Islands.
What is the Galapagos sea lion?
Known for galumphing
What is a seal?
An animal that contains a brain in every arm
What is an octopus?
One main difference between true seals and other pinnipeds
What are ears?
The genus containing all species of bottlenose dolpins
What is tursiops?
The place to find coral polyps in the ocean
What are coral reefs?
The largest species of shark
What is a whale shark?
The reason "the immortal jellyfish" got its namesake
What is the ability to reverse its own aging process?
What is the sailfish?
Scientific name translates to "one tooth, one horn” in Greek
What is a narwhale?
How much of the ocean coral reefs occupy
What is less than 1%?
An organism capable of detaching its head and regrowing a new body
What are sea slugs?
A shrimp capable of making a noise as loud as 120 decibels
What is the pistol shrimp?
Subfamily containing over 30 recognized species of anemonefish
What is amphiprioninae?
The ocean layer containing the thermocline
What is the mesopelagic zone?
Sea animal capable of regenerating body parts
What is a sea star?
An organism that defends itself by expelling its toxic organs, being able to regenerate them
What is a sea cucumber?
A smack
What is a group of jellyfish?
The scientific name of the viper dogfish
What is trigonognathus kabeyai?
An underwater canyon located under the Bering Sea, which is 8520 feet deep.
What is the Zhemchug Canyon?
The deepest fish to have ever been found
What is abyssobrotula galatheae?
An animal that performs photosynthesis directly
What is a leaf slug?
Three mechanisms used by octopodes
What are ink expulsion, jet propulsion, and camoflage?