Spotted Handfish 1
Spotted Handfish 2
Trumpet-Mouthed Hunter Snail 1
Trumpet-Mouthed Hunter Snail 2
Bonus Questions!
100
Name the classification for the Spotted Handfish.
What is vertebrate, mammal?
100
Name the conservation status for the Spotted Handfish.
What is ENDANGERED?
100
Name the classification for Trumpet-Mouthed Hunter Snail.
What is invertebrate?
100
Name the conservation status for the Trumpet-Mouthed Hunter Snail.
What is ENDANGERED?
100
Two classifications of animals we are studying are warm-blooded. Name them.
What are mammal and bird?
200
True or false, the Spotted Handfish has that name because it is shaped like a hand.
What is false? It is because it has pairs of fins like hands that allow it to "walk" on the sea floor.
200
Describe the relationship between the sea squirt, the sea star, and the spotted handfish.
What is the spotted handfish likes to lay its eggs on the sea squirts, but the sea stars are eating up all the sea squirts?
200
True or false...the Trumpet-Mouthed Hunter Snail is about as big as your thumb.
What is false? It's only about as big as your pinky fingerNAIL!
200
The Trumpet-Mouthed Hunter Snail is very unusual for an invertebrate because it is OVOVIVIPAROUS. Explain what this means.
What is they give birth to live babies? Most invertebrates lay eggs.
200
A Bearded Saki and a Yunnan Lake Newt are locked in a refrigerator together. Explain what happens to their body temperatures.
What is the Bearded Saki's temperature stays pretty much the same but the Yunnan Lake Newt's temperature gets lower?
300
Name the area where we can find Spotted Handfish.
What is the Derwent River in Tanzania?
300
Besides the sea stars, describe other things causing problems for the Spotted Handfish.
What are destruction of their habitat, agriculture causing runoff of soil and making the water siltier, illegal fish collectors, low reproduction rate?
300
Describe the physical appearance of the Trumpet-Mouthed Hunter Snail.
What is it has a white shell with a flared, trumpet-like opening. It has bright orange tentacles.
300
Explain why the Trumpet-Mouthed Hunter Snail is having troubles.
What is the marble deposit where it lives is being mined and the area is being invaded by non-native (invasive) plants?
300
The Spotted Handfish is ONLY found in the Derwent River in Tanzania. Therefore, you can say that the Spotted Handfish is _______________ to that place.
What is ENDEMIC?
400
True or false...the Spotted Handfish enjoys spending time in very deep water.
What is false? It likes living on the sandy bottoms of shallow waters.
400
Name some things being done to save the Spotted Handfish.
What are formation of Spotted Handfish Recovery Team to research wild populations and create captive breeding programs? What is removing sea stars?
400
Describe the habitat of the Trumpet-Mouthed Hunter Snail and where it is from.
What is it is from the Marble Delta in the KWaZulu Province of South Africa? What is it lives on a limestone area in rotting leaves (leaf litter)?
400
Name some things being done to save them?
What are mining companies have said they will help with conservation of the snails and have offered to do surveys of other habitats and to look for other snail populations?
400
Sea stars are an invasive species. What does this mean?
What is were introduced or brought in (not native to this area)?
500
Name the main foods eaten by the Spotted Handfish.
What are shrimp, small fish, small crustaceans?
500
The scientific name for the Spotted Handfish is Brachionichthys hirsutus. Name a way to remember this.
What is I have no idea so let's come up with something together?!
500
Name foods eaten by the Trumpet-Mouthed Hunter Snail. This makes it a...
What are other snails, small worms, and other small invertebrates? This makes it a CARNIVORE!
500
The scientific name of the Trumpet-Mouthed Hunter Snail is Gulella salpinx. Name a way to remember it.
What is "salpinx" has all the letters in "snail" in it?
500
The Trumpet-Mouthed Hunter Snail gives birth to live little snails. What is the word for this unique (for invertebrates) behavior?
What is OVOVIVIPAROUS?