The animal world in the deep sea is always the topic of most scientific interest. The reason why this place is still very unexplored, including the Scotoplane species with the intimate name of the manatee .
This animal has an opaque body and internal organs can be seen.
Manatees are sea-dwelling animals and have pig-like skin. They are a genus of sea cucumbers, belonging to the class of echinoderms.
Most of these animals have special tubular legs that move by contracting water cavities inside the skin.
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The skin is quite similar to pig skin. (Screenshots)
Scientists said that manatees are about 15cm long, mainly living on the ocean floor with depths of up to 3000-5000 meters.
The places where this animal has been found include the Atlantic, Pacific and Indian Oceans, and sometimes found in Antarctica.
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Manatees are quite small, can fit in the palm of the hand.
Manatees absorb food by filtering organisms in the mud as well as eating decaying animal carcasses. In the wild, this strange animal plays an extremely important role in the deep sea ecosystem.
Despite having a lot of legs, manatees move quite slowly, only about the speed of a snail. Currently, their number in the world is not much, only about 300 to 600 left.
Species Trichechidae.
In the wild, there is also another named manatee, Trichechidae, which is a family of large mammals in the order Sirenia manatees.
There are 3 species of Trichechidae extant to this day, together with dugongs (Dugong dugong, family Dugongidae) forming the order dugong.
The tail of a manatee is similar to a gill, while the tail of a bowfish is divided into two parts. Most of the time it spends grazing in shallow water.
