Strange and Amazing Transparent Creatures

I have been browsing some weird or freaky articles, for my topic and I was really amused that there are transparent living things that are existing around us. What if I put them together in one aquarium, will they survive? Thanks to our modern technology of internet; and thanks to all the researchers and expeditions putting all their effort and life for us nature-lovers to see the world around us. Am sure you will love to see this strange and amazing creatures.

1) Glass Frog

The Glass frog or Centrolenidae Corder Anura commonly found in Venezuela. It has a color of lime green with visible to the human naked eye of internal organs like liver, heart, and digestive system because of their transparent abdominal skin.

This transparent frog was created in 2007 by the Institute for Amphibian Biology at Hiroshima University in Japan, to make it easier for the students to make an study about amphibians.

2) The Glass Squid

The glass squid or Teuthowenia Pellucida, commonly found on the Southern hemisphere’s ocean, has light organs in it’s eyes and possesses the ability to roll into a ball, like an aquatic hedgehog.(qualityjunkyard.com)

The Squid Papua New Guinea is an opalescent squid with big eyes that can surface around the sea waters of Papua New Guinea especially during night time.

3) Transparent Squid-like Pig

Squid Piglet-like looking mollusk, cute and odd sea creature commonly found in Nigeria.

The Pelagic octopus or Open-Ocean Octopus, has no internal skeleton, unlike other cephalopods. It has neon glow that surfaces in Hawaii sea.

4) Transparent Cave Goby

Transparent Cave Goby or Cory Phopterus glaucofrenum, a salt water fish found in the reefs of Maldives.

5) Transparent Cave Crayfish

Transparent Cave Crayfish has 39 species found in North America, some of them are restricted and isolated inside the caves, ranging from the white albinos to nearly transparent in appearance.

6) Transparent Larval Shrimp

Commonly found in the salt waters of Hawaii. These transparent Larval shrimps looks like the transparent jellyfish.

Antartic Krill

The Antartic Krill are species commonly found in Weddell Sea with a stomach full of yellow algae that makes it critical link in the “food web”.

7) Transparent Flounder

Transparent Flounder fish are tasty, flat and transparent, keeping low profile on the seafloors and can disguise in a camouflage color, like the picture above lying on the sandy seafloors.

Transparent Zebra Fish

This Zebra fish was created by scientists in 2008 to make a study on fish’s diseases like growing tumors and cancers. Children and researchers of Boston University, view the internal organs of the Zebra fish.

9) Transparent Barrel Fish

The transparent barrelfish or Micropinna Microstoma has a tubular eyes and transparent head. The color-green-like leaf inside it’s head are the eyes, which are sensitive to brightness and can rotate their eyes within their tubular eyes. The two eyes-like form above their mouths are not eyes, but their ‘olfactory organs’ calles “Nares”,  which is compared to human nostrils.

10) Transparent Ice Fish

The Crocodile Icefish or Channichthyidae have no hemoglobin or defunct Erythrocytes that’s why their blood are transparent. Their metabolism depends only on the oxygen that passes through blood-liquid and believe to be absorbed by the skin from the water, and works because the coldest water can dissolve the oxygen. The myoglobin gene in their muscles are lost that’s why their heart are pale white.

11) Transparent Goldfish

The transparent Goldfish are created by the Japanese researchers in Mie University, to make the experiment easier for the students in Biology subjects.

12) Transparent Jellyfish

Transparent jellyfish are very common, found in the deep ocean and sometimes floating on sea surfaces. The Arctapodema Genus size are of an inch-long or 2.5 cm long.

13) Transparent Sea Cucumber

The transparent Sea Cucumber are commonly found in 656 feet ocean deep, where the sunlight cannot reach. The enypniastes sea cucumber are found in Northern Mexico Gulf.

14) Transparent Aphipod

The transparent Aphipod or Phronima, are strange species found recently found in expedition to a deep-sea mountain range in North Atlantic. The tiny shrimp-like creature shows their ability in an attempting to vanish. Small deep-sea creatures are transparent as well, to camouflage themselves in their darkened sediment surroundings.

15) Transparent Salps

The transparent Salp looks like jellyfish animal and feed on small plants in water called Phytoplankton (marine algae). Their shapes are like barrels, that can grown to 10 centimeters in length.

16) Glass Tulip Worms (Tunicates)

The Glass Tulip worms or “Tunicates”, are curious animals found in the dark waters of Antartica. These plankton-eating tunicates can grow up to 3.2 feet and their food by umping it into internal structure stalk, supporting the pressure intake created by pumping.

Venus Flytrap

This new specie found in the deep sea of Australia, this creatures can trap like a venus flytrap their preys like any fish near them.

Bristle Worm

The head of the Bristleworm has a trumphet-shaped mouth, commonly found in Antartica’s Weddell sea.

Sea Butterfly Snail

The Sea Butterfly snails are tiny aquatic creatures, can be in various forms like heart-shape found in Antartica’s Weddell sea.

17) Transparent Butterflies

From Central America, Mexico to Panama these Glasswing Butterflies, are transparent and their foot are like brush. (Quantityjunkyard.com)

18)Firefly Squids

A delicacy in Japan, and can be seen gathering in millions  every month of March to May in Toyama Bay, to lay their eggs. These are active predator use their blue lights to attract  preys, stay in 1,200 feet depth during the day and surface during the night to hunt food.

19)Juvenile Cow-Fish

The round-belly Juvenile Cowfish commonly found in Kona, Hawaii otherwise called transparent Box-fish, has two short horns above their eyes.

20) Larval Leaf Scorpion Fish

The tiny transparent Larval Leaf Scorpion Fish found in Hawaii sea, lack any defense from their predators, and so their transparency are use as method of camouflage.