Biology

The Most: Related to Animals -1 (Invertebrates)

1. Animal which turns its body most times	*Cockroach (25 times/sec)*
2. Deepest Living	*Myriotrochus bruuni. Found at a depths up to 10,710 m or (35,130 ft). Marianas Trench*
3. Deepest living mollusc	*Ewig's Gastroverm lives at an ocean depth of about 20,000 ft (over 4500m).* *Over 1,100 species of molluscs have been discovered living deeper than 1 mile (1600m).*
4. Fastest flying butterfly	*Monarch butterfly (17 miles/hr)*
5. Fastest flying insect	*Australian Dragonfly (58 km/hr)*
6. Fastest running insect	*Tropical Periplaneta Americana (5.4 km/hr)*
7. Fastest Wing Beat	*A tiny midge (mosquito group) can beat its wings 1000 times a second.*
8. Fattest fly	*Pantophthalmus bellardi (Central America). 2 inch*
9. Heaviest insect	*Goliath beetle (about 100 g & 11 cm long) (found in Africa).*
10. Heaviest Starfish	*Thromidia catalai (Maximum weight of 6 kg 13 lb 4 oz). New Caledonia*
11. Highest lifespan in insect	*Splender beetle (it has found the beetle which lived 51 years)* *Ant (Queen). 11-16 yrs. Some are 28 years.*
12. Highest olfactory power in insects	*Emperor Moth (can recognize the smell of same race at 11 km away)*
13. Largest and heaviest invertebrate (largest and heaviest mollusc)	*Giant squid (Architeuthis): Max. size at 13 m (43 ft) for females and 10 m (33 ft) for males from* **caudal fin to the tip of the two long tentacles. (Weight 5 tones, length 18 m, diameter 6 m).**
14. Largest annelid	*The hydrothermal vent tubeworm, Riftia pachyptila, reaches lengths of 7.9 feet (2.4 meters)*
15. Largest ant	*Dinopohtera (ant of Africa)* *Daurilus (female). About 40 mm long*
16. Largest arthropod	*Pseudocarcinus gigas, the Tasmanian Giant Crab, obtains a carapace width of 1.5 feet (0.46 meters)*
17. Largest beetle	*Goliath beetle*
18. Largest Butterfly	*Queen Alexandra bird wing (found in Guinea). Wingspan 28 cm,* *weight 5 g*
19. Largest class	*Hexapoda (Insecta)*
20. Largest colonial Cnidarian, that is not a coral reef	*Bubblegum Coral, (Paragorgia arborea) that can reach heights of 9.8 feet (3 m)*
21. Largest coral reef	*Great barrier reef of north east coast of Australia (2000 km)*
22. Largest crustacean	*Giant spider crab*
23. Largest ctenophore	*Cestum veneris ("Venus' girdle") and Velamen parallelum. They have up to 1.5 m (4.9 ft) length.*
24. Largest ctenophore	*Lampocteis cruentiventer* with a length of 0.52 feet (16cm)
25. Largest dragonfly	*Giant petal tai (Australia). Wingspan: 6.3 inch*
26. Largest earth worm	*Microchaetus rappi*
27. Largest echinoderm	The starfish Thromidia catalai and Thromidia gigas can reach 3.2 lbs (6 kg). ?Thromidia catalai-the South Pacific species reaches a maximum span of a little over 2 feet (60-65 cm). But Thromidia gigas, which occurs in South Africa, was measured with a diameter of nearly 70 cm!?
28. Largest egg in insect	*Walking stick insect (egg has 8 mm long)*
29. Largest eye (as compared to body size) among animals	*Giant squid (Architeuthis)* *Largest recorded* **eyes: Atlantic Giant Squid - approximate diameter of 50 cm (20 inches).**
30. Largest flat worm	*Taenia solium (Tapeworm)*
31. Largest flatworm	**Diphyllobothrium latum, the human tapeworm, at a length 65 feet (20 meters)**
32. Largest fly	*Goromidas heros (South America)- 6 cm long*
33. Largest group in insects	*Beetles (about 300,000 items)*
34. Largest group of animals that utilize the beating of cilia for locomotion	*Ctenophore (Comb jellies)*
35. Largest hemichordate	*The largest colony is Cephalodiscus densus with a length of 8.2 feet (2.5 meters) and the noncolonial species is Balanoglossus gigas with a length of 9.8 inches (250 mm)*
36. Largest honeybee	*Apis dorsata (South East Asia)-3 cm long*
37. Largest insect	*Atlas moth (wingspan: 33 cm)*
38. Largest jelly fish	*Cyanea arctica*
39. Largest known bivalve	*"Giant Clam" (Tridacna gigas Linne)* *Weight: 734 pounds (333kg)* *Length: nearly 4 ft (1.4m) in.*
40. Largest locust Swarm	*A Swarm of desert locusts that crossed the Red Sea in 1889. Swarm estimated to contain 250,000,000 insects weighing about 500,000 tonnes and covering 5,000 sq. km*
41. Largest moth	*Atlas moth*
42. Largest non-colonial Cnidarian	*Arctic Lion?s Mane Jellyfish, Cyanea arctica, with a bell diameter of up to 1.7 m and a tentacle length of 36.6 m*
43. Largest phylum	*Arthropoda*
44. Largest roundworm	*Placentonema gigantissima (a parasite found in the placentas of sperm whales). Max. length: 30 ft (9 m)*
45. Largest roundworm in human	*Ascaris lumbricoides*
46. Largest Sea Cucumber	*Stichopus variagatus. 1 m long by 24 cm diameter (39 ins by 9.5 ins). Philippines*
47. Largest sea snail (univalve)	**Syrinx aruanus Linne (Australian trumpet or false trumpet). Length: nearly 800mm (2.5 ft). Girth: 1m. Weight: 18kg**
48. Largest Sea Urchin	*Sperosoma giganteum. The shell has an average diameter of 32 cm (12.6 ins). Japan*
49. Largest snail (land snail)	*Giant African* **Land Snail (Achatina fulica). Weight: up to 2 pounds (900g) Length: 15.5 inches (390mm)**
50. Largest sponge	*Spheclospongia vesparium*
51. Largest sponge	*Aphrocallistes vasus* (The cloud sponge) can cover an area of 11.15 feet (3.4m) x 3.6 feet (1.1m)
52. Largest starfish	*Midgardia xandros- Can have an arm reach of 1.38 m (4 ft 6 in). Gulf of Mexico* *Pyenopodia hellianthoides (30 cm diameter)*
53. Largest tentacle	*Cyanea arctica*
54. Largest terrestrial invertebrate	*Giant earth worm*
55. Lightest insect	*Banded louse (16 lakhs of louse together weighs only 1g)*
56. Longest and highest jumping insect	*Flea (jumps 220 times long and 150 times height as compared to body size)*
57. Longest animal	*The Arctic* *Lion's mane jellyfish. It was found washed up on the shore of Massachusetts Bay in 1870.*
58. Longest antenna in insect	*A type of cricket found in Central Nigeria*
59. Longest insect	*Giant stick insect (about 33 cm long)*
60. Longest migratory insect	*A kind of dragonfly (11,000 mile from India to Africa)*
61. Loudest insect	*Cicada (male). Sound will reach 400 m away*
62. Maximum number of chromosomes in animals	*Aulacantha (Radiolarin); 2n=1600*
63. Minimum number of chromosomes in animals	*Ascaris megalocephalus (2n=2)*
64. Most dreadful ant	*Black Bulldog ant (Australia and Tasmaina). 1.6 inch long. One bite can kill a man.*
65. Most precious coral	*Corallium nobile (red coral)*
66. Most primitive Annelid	*Polygordius*
67. Most primitive Arthropod	*Peripatus*
68. Most primitive helminth	*Planaria*
69. Most primitive molluscan	*Chaetoderma and Neomenio*
70. Shortest lifespan	*Mayfly. 30 min to 1 day after the larval stage. Some die within 5 min.*
71. Slowest moving snail	*Helix aspersa*
72. Smallest annelid	*Dinophilus gyrociliatus* reaches lengths of only 0.002 inches (0.05 mm)
73. Smallest arachnid	*Eriophyid mites (125 to 250 ?m in length)*
74. Smallest arthropod	*Stygotantulus stocki, a minute parasite on copepods, only reaches a length of 0.004 inches (0.095mm)*
75. Smallest arthropod (Smallest crustacean)	*Tantulocarid* *Stygotantulus stocki, at a length of only 94 µm (0.0037 in)*
76. Smallest beetle	Beetles of the tribe Nanosellini are all less than 1 mm long; the smallest include Scydosella musawasensis at 300 ?m long, Vitusella fijiensis at 310 ?m, and Nanosella at 300 to 400 ?m. These are among the tiniest non-parasitic insects.
77. Smallest butterfly	*Brephidium barberae (Dwarf blue)*
78. Smallest Cnidarian	*Psammohydra nanna* (tiny hydra), with a height of only 0.02 inches (0.4 mm)
79. Smallest ctenophore	*Minictena luteola with a length of 0.06 inches (1.5mm)*
80. Smallest Cucumber	*Psammothuria ganapatii* *Length = less than 4mm (0.16 ins). India*
81. Smallest echinoderm	*The sea cucumber Parvotrochus belyaevi at 0.06 inches (1.5 mm)*
82. Smallest echinoderm (smallest sea cucumber)	*Psammothuria ganapatii, a* **synaptid which lives between sand grains on the coast of India. Its maximum length is only 4 mm.**
83. Smallest flat worm	*Cyrdodactylus funduli at a length of 0.1 inches (0.258mm)*
84. Smallest hemichordate	*The smallest colony is the species Rhabdopleura compacta at 0.11 inches in diameter (2.9 mm ) and the smallest noncolonial species is Saccoglossus pygmaeus with a length of 0.12 inches (3 mm)*
85. Smallest honeybee	*Apis florea*
86. Smallest insect	*Fairy fly (0.005 mm)* *Adult males of the parasitic wasp Dicopomorpha echmepterygis can be as small as 139 ?m long; females are 40 percent larger.*
87. Smallest known snail shell	*Ammonicera rota.* *Diameter: 0.02 inches.*
88. Smallest molluscan	*The small marine snail, Ammonicera minortalis, at only 0.015 inches (0.4 millimeters) in diameter*
89. Smallest roundworm	*Species Micronema, living between individual grains of sediment, only reach lengths of 0.012 inches (0.3 mm)*
90. Smallest Sea Urchin	*Echinocyamus scaber. Diameter of shell = 5.5 mm (0.22 ins). Eastern Australia*
91. Smallest sponge	*Leucosolenia blance*
92. Smallest sponge	*Sycon cillatum* (0.05mm height)
93. Smallest Starfish	*Patiriella Parvivipara. Maximum Radius of 4.7 mm (0.18 ins). South Australia*
94. Smallest tapeworm of man	*Hymenolepis nana (10 cm with 200 proglottids)*
95. Tallest sponge	*Poterion*
96. Thickest shell in insect	*Beetle*

The Most: Related to Animals -2 (Fishes)

The Most: Related to Animals -3 (Amphibians)

The Most: Related to Animals -4 (Reptiles)

The Most: Related to Animals -5 (Birds)

The Most: Related to Animals -6 (Mammals)

- The Most: Related To Animals -6 (mammals)
Blue whale 1.         Commonest animal Homo sapiens (man) 2.         Fastest animal Cheetah, Acinonyx jubatus (112 km/hr) (found in Africa, Middle East, W. Asia) 3.        ...

- The Most: Related To Animals -4 (reptiles)
Anaconda 1.         Fastest snake African mumba (30 km/hr) 2.         Heaviest snake Anaconda (8.25 m length; 227 kg) 3.        ...

- The Most: Related To Animals -2 (fishes)
1.         Fastest fish Sail fish (Istiphorus platypterus): 109 km/hr 2.         Heaviest Bony Fish Ocean sunfish is the heaviest largest ever recorded 2.28 tonnes...

- The Most: Related To Body Parts
1.       Busiest organ Heart 2.       Fastest known enzyme Carbonic anhydrase 3.       Hardest part of the body Enamel of tooth 4.      ...

- The Most: Related To Microbes
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