what do these animals eat?and are they parasites?

Question

Portuguese man of war
box jellyfish
anemone
brain coral
liver fluke
marine flatworm
hookworm
vinegar eal
leech
sandworm
lugworm
fanworm

Answer 1

hookworms and liver flukes are parasites. Leeches might be considered parasites as well, but I'm not sure, the others I am sure of. I think the jellyfish and corals mostly eat zooplankton, that is fish ova and other tiny marine organisms. Sorry I can't help you more.

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Answer 2

Off the top of my head the ones I KNOW are parasites are
Liver Fluke-eat things in the liver of herd animals horses&cows
Hookworms-Deadly to dogs:eat everything in the gut.Treat with three days of Panacur
Anemone-Not sure isnt that a Protozon?
Leech -Dont know what its classed I consider it a parasite..It sucks blood out of living things..
Brain coral-tricky dont know!sounds like coral that may look brainish!
Marine flatworm-sounds like a parisite that would get in ocean mammals?
Sandworm-sounds like a parasite that a grazer would pick up
P.Man O'War-I picture a Sting ray!
Box Jellyfish-dont know what they eat?

I hope you post the answers and Thank you for posting a Fun question!

Answer 3

Men of war are not parasitic and feed on small fishes.
Box Jelly Fish are the same.
Anemones are not parasitic and many form a commensal relationship with fish, crabs and shrimp. Some are filter feeders and trap microscopic animals, others eat larger fish and even shrimp.
Brain coral in not parasitic and is a filter feeder.
Liver fluke is parasitic and passes through and interesting life cycle in snails and finally to the human host where they feed on various tissues and may cause death.
Marine flatworms is an obscure term as there are many species and most are parasitic but others are not. Those that are parasitic absorb nutrients from hosts, others absorb nutrients from dead animals, fish, etcv.
Hookworms are parasitic to both animals and man and feed on blood. one adult hookworm can consume 1 cc of blood a day...thus causing anemia.
Vinegar eels are not parasitic and feed on both residue and nutrients of fermentation.
Leeches are usually parasitic (some small species feed on droppings of fish), they eat blood, and produce a special anticoagulant from tissue around their gnawing mouth parts and this keeps the blood flowing...some feed on warm blooded prey, others feed on snakes and turtles etc.
Lugworms feed on organic matter and are not parasitic
The fanworms are a beautiful group of worms with long plume like tentacles to trap microscopic particles and are often called peacock worms. They can be blue, red, yellow or browns and they are very sensitive to movement and slide into their tubes at the slightest hint of danger...They are often found in coral or coral rock but they are not parasitic. Most of the lower forms of animal life such as corals are filter-feeders, that is that they trap microscopic plankton, so those that are sedentary are such feeders. Those that are able to move about such as jelly fish and some of the worms, i.e. the bristleworms, are predatory and several have a venom (some such as the box jelly fish are toxic to man). Worms are sometimes harmless but many are parasitic, such as the hookworm, ascarids (roundworms) Cestodes (tapeworms), flukes, and leeches. Many have an involved life cycle that includes perhaps two or more other animals before it reaches the final host. One tape worm in Thailand is Diphylobothrium latus and begins it life as a parasite on daphnia, which is eaten by a frog, and from the frog to man.

Answer 4

Parasites are things that gain sustenence from bodily fluids of other animals Leech and Liver fluke

Portugeese Man of War and Box Jellyfish are both Cnidarians which feed of Zooplankton.

Brain coral, anamone and Marine flatworm all filter feed.

I have no idea what the other animals are sorry

Answer 5

Portuguese man of war - plankton and small fish

box jellyfish - plankton and small fish

anemone - plankton, small crustaceans, some species will eat small fish

brain coral - plankton

liver fluke - internal parasite, feeds on tissues of its host

marine flatworm - mainly detritus feeders, some species may eat minute inverterbrates

hookworm - internal parasite, feeds on the blood of its host

vinegar eel - a free-living roundworm, detritus feeder

leech - external parasite, feeds on the blood if its host

sandworm - primarily detritus feeder, may eat some small invertebrates

lugworm - detritus feeders

fanworm - marine filter feeder, feeds on plankton and suspended detritus

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Answer 6

Mosquito

Answer 7

If anybody answers all of these they have no life. Why don't you try Wikipedia?

Answer 8

The Portuguese Man O' War (Physalia physalis), also known as the bluebubble or bluebottle, is commonly thought of as a jellyfish but is actually a siphonophore—a colony of four sorts of polyps.
Box jellyfish are water-dwelling invertebrates belonging to the class Cubozoa, named for their cube-shaped medusae. They share many characteristics with their relatives the true jellyfish in the class Scyphozoa. The name sea wasp is also applied to some species of cubozoans, including Chironex fleckeri and Carybdea alata.
Box jellyfish are found in Australia, the Philippines, and many other tropical areas. They are known for the often-fatal effects of their venom, although not all species are venomous.
Anemone (Anemone) (from the Gr. Άνεμος, wind), is a genus of about 120 species of flowering plants in the buttercup family Ranunculaceae in the north and south temperate zones. They are closely related to Pasque flower (Pulsatilla) and Hepatica (Hepatica); some botanists include both of these genera within Anemone.
The plants are perennial herbs with an underground rootstock, and radical, more or less deeply cut, leaves. The elongated flower stem bears one or several, white, red, blue or rarely yellow, flowers; there is an involucre of three leaflets below each flower. The fruits often bear long hairy styles which aid their distribution by the wind ("windflower" is a common name sometimes used for members of the genus).
Brain coral (Diploria sp.) is a collection of species of coral characterized by the spheroid shape of their colonies. Brain corals are found in warm-water coral reefs in all the world's oceans. Brain corals are part of the phylum Cnidaria, in a class called Anthozoa or "sea flowers." Brain coral received its name because of how closely it resembles a human brain.
Liver flukes are a polyphyletic group of a trematodes (a kind of flatworm).
Examples include:
·Clonorchis sinensis (the "Chinese liver fluke" or the "Oriental liver fluke")
·Dicrocoelium dendriticum (lancet liver fluke)
·Fasciola hepatica (the "sheep liver fluke")
·Fascioloides magna (the "giant liver fluke")
·Fasciola gigantica
·Opisthorchis viverrini (Southeast Asian liver fluke)
·Opisthorchis felineus (cat liver fluke).
The hookworm is a nematode parasite that lives in the small intestine of its host, which may be a mammal such as a dog, cat, or human. Two species of hookworms commonly infect humans, Ancylostoma duodenale and Necator americanus. The geographical distribution of these two species significantly overlap. Necator americanus predominates in the Americas, Sub-Saharan Africa, Southeast Asia, China and Indonesia, while A. duodenale predominates in the Middle East, North Africa, India and (formerly) in southern Europe. Hookworms are thought to infect 800 million people worldwide. The A. braziliense and A. tubaeforme species infect cats, while A. caninum infects dogs. Uncinaria stenocephala infects both dogs and cats.
Hookworms are much smaller than the large roundworm, Ascaris lumbricoides, and the complications of tissue migration and mechanical obstruction so frequently observed with roundworm infestation are less frequent in hookworm infestation. The most significant risk of hookworm infection is anemia, secondary to loss of iron (and protein) in the gut. The worms suck blood voraciously and damage the mucosa. However, the blood loss in the stools is occult blood loss (not visibly apparent).
Ankylostomiasis, alternatively spelled anchylostomiasis and also called helminthiasis, "miners' anaemia", "tunnel disease", "brickmaker's anaemia", "Egyptian chlorosis" and in Germany Wurmkrankheit, is the disease caused by hookworms. It is caused when hookworms are present in large numbers and produce a severe anaemia by voraciously sucking blood from the host's intestinal walls.
Hookworm is commonly called "larva migratoria" in Spanish and "bicho do pé" in Portuguese.
Hookworms are leading causes of maternal and child morbidity in the developing countries of the tropics and subtropics. In susceptible children hookworms cause intellectual, cognitive and growth retardation, intrauterine growth retardation, prematurity, and low birth weight among newborns born to infected mothers. Hookworm infection is rarely fatal, but anemia can be significant in the heavily infected individual.
This article is about annelids. For the creatures from Frank Herbert's "Dune" Novels, see sandworm (Dune).
The name sandworm is given to two kinds of polychaete worm used as fishing bait.
·In the US, a sandworm is a worm of the genus Nereis (a ragworm), especially Nereis virens.
·In the UK, a sandworm is another name for a lugworm (genus Arenicola).
Retrieved from "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sandworm"

Leeches are annelids comprising the subclass Hirudinea. There are fresh water, terrestrial and marine leeches. Like their near relatives, the Oligochaeta, they share the presence of a clitellum. Like earthworms, leeches are hermaphrodites. The medicinal leech, Hirudo medicinalis, which is native to Europe, and its congeners have been used for clinical bloodletting for thousands of years.
All leech species are carnivorous. Some are predatory, feeding on a variety of invertebrates such as worms, snails, insect larvae, crustaceans, while a very few are haemophagic parasitic blood-sucking leeches, feeding on the blood of vertebrates such as amphibians, reptiles, waterfowl, fishes, and mammals (including humans). The most important predators on leeches are fishes, aquatic insects, crayfishes and other leeches specialized for predation on leeches.
Haemophagic leeches attach to their hosts and remain there until they become full, at which point they fall off to digest. Leeches' bodies are composed of 34 segments. They all have an anterior (oral) sucker formed from the first six segments of their body, which is used to connect to a host for feeding, and are known to release an anaesthetic to remain unnoticed by the host. They use a combination of mucus and suction (caused by concentric muscles in those six segments) to stay attached and secrete an anti-clotting enzyme into the host's blood stream.
Some species of leech will nurture their young, providing food, transport, and protection, which is unusual behavior in an invertebrate.