Top Results for Predatory

The electric eel, *Electrophorus electricus*, is a South American freshwater fish belonging to the Gymnotidae family. It’s notable for its ability to generate powerful electrical discharges, reaching up to 860 volts. These shocks are used for stunning prey and deterring predators. The species inhabi...

The green lynx spider (*Peucetia viridans*) is a large, bright green ambush predator commonly found on shrubs and wildflowers across the southern United States. It is distinguished by its vivid coloration, red leg markings, and long, spiny legs that aid in capturing insect prey. A unique behavioral...

The great diving beetle, Dytiscus marginalis, is a large aquatic beetle found in freshwater habitats across much of Europe and parts of northern Asia. Both adults and larvae are predators, feeding on aquatic invertebrates and occasionally small vertebrates such as tadpoles or fish. Adults carry air...

Beroe cucumis is a marine comb jelly, or ctenophore, with a transparent, saclike body and rows of cilia that refract light as the animal swims. Unlike tentacle-bearing ctenophores, members of the genus Beroe have a wide mouth and feed on other comb jellies, swallowing prey whole or biting pieces fro...

Predaceous diving beetles comprise the family Dytiscidae, a large group of aquatic insects with over 4,000 recognized species worldwide. Both adults and larvae are voracious predators, actively hunting other aquatic invertebrates, tadpoles, and small fish underwater. To breathe while submerged, adul...

Pelagiarctos thomasi is an extinct species of macropredatory marine mammal closely related to modern walruses, living during the Middle Miocene epoch. Its fossilized remains were primarily discovered in the Sharktooth Hill bonebed in California, a site famous for its rich marine deposits. Unlike mod...

The Forest Caterpillar Hunter (Calosoma sycophanta) is a large, predominantly black ground beetle native to Europe. Recognizable by its size and prominent longitudinal ridges on its wing covers, it is an active predator that climbs trees to hunt caterpillars. It was deliberately introduced to North...

Haeckelia rubra is a species of cydippid ctenophore, a type of comb jelly, notable for exhibiting kleptocnidae—a biological phenomenon in which the organism sequesters functional stinging cells called nematocysts from cnidarian prey and incorporates them into its own tentacles. Unlike cnidarians, ct...

Beroe forskalii is a species of pelagic comb jelly belonging to the order Beroida. Lacking tentacles, this ctenophore is a macrophagous predator that feeds exclusively by engulfing other comb jellies whole using a highly expandable mouth. Because of its specialized diet, it has been extensively stud...

Euplokamis dunlapae is a species of cydippid ctenophore, a type of comb jelly, first scientifically described in 1987. It is notable for its unique prey-capture mechanism, possessing tentacles that contain striated muscle fibers. These specialized helical structures allow the organism to rapidly coi...

Solmissus albescens is a narcomedusa, a hydrozoan jellyfish found in the midwater of tropical and subtropical oceans. Unlike many jellyfish that capture prey passively, members of Solmissus are active gelatinous predators; their documented prey includes other medusae and related gelatinous zooplankt...

Beroe abyssicola is a species of beroid ctenophore, commonly called a comb jelly, described by Th. Mortensen in 1927. It is a marine deep-water animal recorded in the North Pacific, including waters around Japan and the Arctic, and its type locality is near Vancouver Island at about 400 metres depth...

Beroe gracilis is a marine ctenophore, or comb jelly, in the family Beroidae. It is a translucent, elongated species that can reach about four centimetres and, like other members of Beroe, lacks tentacles. It captures other ctenophores by opening its mouth widely and drawing them into its pharynx, m...

Aeginura grimaldii is a deep-sea narcomedusa in the hydrozoan family Aeginidae. It has been reported from the northeastern Atlantic, Pacific, and Arctic oceans, including depths of roughly 660 to 1,200 metres. Descriptions of living specimens note a reddish body, pale tentacles, and an overall span...

Sarsia tubulosa is a hydrozoan medusa in the family Corynidae. It is reported mainly from coastal boreal and Arctic waters and is recognized by its long, tube-like manubrium, the structure that extends from the bell and contains the mouth. The species is a small member of the hydromedusa group and i...

Atlantic Moon Snail is the common name for Euspira heros, a large predatory marine gastropod in the family Naticidae. It occurs along the Atlantic coast of North America and feeds on other shelled animals, including bivalves. Like other moon snails, it can drill a characteristic circular hole throug...

Lewis's moon snail is a large predatory marine gastropod in the family Naticidae. Neverita lewisii occurs along the northeastern Pacific coast of North America, where it lives on sandy or muddy seafloors and feeds on bivalves and other mollusks. Like other moon snails, it can drill through shells wi...

The Atlantic moon snail is a predatory marine gastropod in the family Naticidae. Neverita duplicata inhabits sandy coastal bottoms in the western Atlantic, where it searches for bivalves and other invertebrate prey. It attacks shelled prey by extending the radula and using acidic secretions to weake...

Described by Francis Buchanan-Hamilton in 1822, the pike conger is a marine fish that commonly inhabits coastal waters and estuaries throughout the broader Indo-West Pacific region.

First described by Peter Forsskål in 1775, the daggertooth pike conger is a large, commercially fished marine species common throughout the coastal waters of the Indo-Pacific.

The finespotted pike conger is a marine eel in the family Muraenesocidae, occurring in Indo-Pacific seas. It is distinguished by numerous small, closely spaced dark spots distributed across the body, a pattern that separates it from related pike congers. The species is associated with coastal marine...

Urosalpinx cinerea is a predatory marine gastropod in the family Muricidae, commonly called the Atlantic oyster drill. It lives in shallow coastal and estuarine waters along the North American Atlantic coast, where it attacks oysters and other shelled animals. The snail drills a hole through a bival...

Ocenebra erinaceus, the sting winkle or oyster drill, is a predatory marine gastropod in the family Muricidae. Native to the northeastern Atlantic and European coasts, it lives on rocky shores and in shallow subtidal habitats and feeds on bivalves such as oysters and mussels. It attacks prey by usin...