Misnomers in Animal Kingdom, It's Not What it is named.

 

The Followings are some of the examples in the Animal kingdom that are picked which is actually a misnomer . They are not as their name says as it is.-----

i) Jellyfish: Jellyfish and sea jellies are the informal common names given to the medusa-phase of certain gelatinous members of the subphylum Medusozoa, a major part of the phylum Cnidaria. Jellyfish are mainly free-swimming marine animals with umbrella-shaped bells and trailing tentacles, although a few are anchored to the seabed by stalks rather than being mobile. The bell can pulsate to provide propulsion for highly efficient locomotion. The tentacles are armed with stinging cells and may be used to capture prey and defend against predators. Jellyfish have a complex life cycle; the medusa is normally the sexual phase, which produces planula larva that disperse widely and enter a sedentary polyp phase before reaching sexual maturity.

Jellyfish

ii) Cuttlefish: Cuttlefish are marine molluscs of the order Sepiida. They belong to the class Cephalopoda, which also includes squid, octopuses, and nautiluses. Cuttlefish have a unique internal shell, the cuttlebone, which is used for control of buoyancy. Cuttlefish have large, W-shaped pupils, eight arms, and two tentacles furnished with denticulated suckers, with which they secure their prey. They generally range in size from 15 to 25 cm (6 to 10 in), with the largest species, Sepia apama, reaching 50 cm (20 in) in mantle length and over 10.5 kg (23 lb) in mass.

Cuttlefish eat small molluscs, crabs, shrimp, fish, octopus, worms, and other cuttlefish. The average life expectancy of a cuttlefish is about 1–2 years. Studies are said to indicate cuttlefish to be among the most intelligent invertebrates.

Cuttlefish

iii)Silverfish: A silverfish (Lepisma saccharinum) is a small, primitive, wingless insect in the order Zygentoma . Its common name derives from the animal's silvery light grey colour, combined with the fish-like appearance of its movements. The scientific name (L. saccharinum) indicates that the silverfish's diet consists of carbohydrates such as sugar or starches.

Silverfish

iv) Seahorse:

A seahorse might slightly resemble a horse, without the fur, and with a different kind of tail, but it is really a fish that belongs to the Syngnathidae family, along with pipefishes and leafy sea dragons. To be fair to whoever came up with the common name seahorse, it's a bit more accurate than the direct translation of the animal's Latin genus name, Hippocampus, which literally translates as "horse" (hippos-) "sea monster" (-kampos). Calling anything that only grows to be about 1 inch (2.5 centimeters) long a monster is potentially more misleading than calling a fish a horse.

Seahorse

v) Starfish:

Starfish don't have scales, don't have tails and can't swim, so they are therefore not fish. Instead, the rough-skinned, multi-legged seafloor dweller is an echinoderm, related to sea urchins and sea cucumbers. Though it does at least look like a star, They are not fish! They don't have gills! Or fins or scales! 

Starfish

vi) Ringworm:

A ringworm infection on the skin is actually caused by a fungus, not a worm. 

Ringworm, also known as dermatophytosis, is not a worm at all: It is a fungal infection consisting of several different species of fungus that feeds on keratin — the substance found in hair, nails and the outer layer of skin — within humans and domesticated animals. The infection forms a ring-like pattern on skin that sort of looks like a worm burrow.

Ringworm infection

vii) Guinea pig:

These common household pets (in the United States) and increasingly popular delicacies (in South America) have more fur and faster metabolisms than any true pig. Guinea pig are not pigs. Guinea pigs are rodents, and the only thing they share in common with true pigs is that they are mammals … and they make squeaky sounds.

Guinea pig

viii) Prairie dog:

Prairie dogs are rodents, and have nothing more in common with domesticated dogs than guinea pigs do with true pigs. The call of the prairie dog is thought to sound like the bark of a dog, but given its small size, the tone of its bark only matches that of the smallest true dogs.

Prairie dog

ix: Flying fox:

With wingspans reaching up to about 4.5 feet (1.4 meters) wide, these animals can grow to be as large as a fox. But they are not foxes at all — they are the largest and least studied bats in the world. More than 60 species are known to live throughout isolated islands within the Pacific and Indian oceans, and parts of continental Australia and Asia. Their brownish-red fur resembles that of a fox, but these are tree-dwelling, fruit-eating mammals.

Flying fish

x) Killer Whale:

Instead of calling a giant dangerous dolphin a "killer dolphin," people say "killer whale" because nobody thinks of dolphins as being anything but docile and intelligent. At least, that’s how we figure the killer whale got its name. Guesses aside, killer whales, or orca, do indeed belong to the dolphin family. They're fierce predators of the sea, with sharp teeth that can grow up to four inches long. 

Killer Whale

xi) Electric Eel:

The electric eel is tired of being "eel-like." Yes, they are electric, but they are not in fact an eel. Electric eels are freshwater fish of the knifefish family. Native to South America, this electric freshwater fish has a slithery, elongated body that closely resemble to ell but prefer to be known as "electric knifefish" because their bodies resemble knives and they can attack with a nerve-frying jolt.

Electric eel

xii) Bearcats:

Bearcats, , are native to Southern Asia . Maybe these fuzzy fellows want to be related to bears and cats, but they're not. They're weasels. They actually look like a bear-cat-weasel-raccoon hybrid, with a long furry body, bushy tail, claws, and a weaselly face.

Bearcat

xiii) Blindworms : Life’s rough for the blindworm. Its skin falls off periodically and it eats slugs to survive. That's not the worst of it. You'd think blindworms would be mad about being worms that can't see, but blindworms can see and they aren't worms. In fact, they're legless lizards.

Blindworm

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Dated : The 16th Nov,2020

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