This Planet is Magical: Over 15 Transparent Animals to Prove It

Let’s explore the wonders of Mother Nature, we have collected the strangest transparent animals that will make you want to touch them to believe they really exist.

1. Tiny transparent spiny fish
If you’re wondering why this beautiful transparent fish looks familiar, it’s because it’s a member of the Dory family , Nemo’s companion in the movie Finding Nemo . It is a juvenile fish and its species is called Acanthuridae. They live in tropical seas.

2. The Portuguese Fire Jellyfish
Red Jellyfish (Physalia Physalis) is not a jellyfish even if it looks like a jellyfish, it has long tentacles and its sting is extremely painful and poisonous, causing severe pain. deadly for both fish and people. This creature gets its name from its strange appearance. It is not a single species but a population of many small individuals called zooids. Each of these zooids is highly specialized despite its structure looking like unique animals, they are so intertwined and physiologically integrated that they cannot survive independently. This species lives on the ocean surface. Gas-filled bladder, or pneumatophore, remains at the surface, while the rest is submerged under water

3. Glasswing Butterflies (Glasswing)
Unlike ordinary butterflies, this species is transparent instead of bright colors. It is called Greta oto and is a member of the subfamily Danainae, order Ithomiini, and suborder Godyridina. This butterfly uses its transparent wings for camouflage

4. Ice
fish Chaenocephalus Aceratus is known as the black fin ice fish and it belongs to the crocodile family and they live mainly in Antarctica . Its blood is also transparent, as is its body, and it has a very weak skeleton and is creamy white in color.

5. The Sea Gooseberry
This cute little glass ball-like creature is called Pleurobrachia pileus , but it’s better known as the “sea gooseberry”. sea) and can grow up to 2.5 cm. It is a heather that lives in open water. Its tentacles are 20 times longer than its body and are used to wrap around prey.

6. Ghost Shrimp

Palaemonetes paludosus is an organism best known as the ghost shrimp. It comes from the southeastern United States and is actually a clear shrimp species. It lives in freshwater, mainly in lakes, and feeds on plankton. Their transparency acts as a great camouflage for them.

7. A chain of interconnected Salpa Maxima organisms
Salpa maxima are plankton. Its actual name is just salp. Its viscous body structure helps it move by contracting and pumping water through it. Salps live in cold waters and can be seen moving singly or in long chains.

8. Glass Frog
It’s really unusual to think that there could be a transparent frog. It actually exists in the southern United States, it is called Glass Frog and belongs to the amphibian family Centrolenidae. They are usually lime green, however, a large number of glass frogs are completely transparent and as a result their organs, such as the heart, are visible.

9. Amphipod Cystisoma Neptuni
Amphipod Cystisoma Neptuni is an Amphipod creature from the deep sea with a translucent body. Its camouflaged body protects it from predators and can only be seen in photos thanks to the camera flash.

10. Immortal Jellyfish or Turritopsis Dohrnii Jellyfish
Turritopsis Dohrnii is perhaps the most amazing creature on earth because it is the only one that is immortal. Immortal jellyfish is an inhabitant of the Mediterranean and Japan. Its life cycle has no peak unlike any other jellyfish in the wild. Researchers are scratching their heads over this natural miracle. This jellyfish can reverse its life cycle from adulthood back to a single-celled organism and continue to develop. This mechanism is accomplished through transdifferentiation, when the cells in the jellyfish’s body transform themselves into new cells. This creature can regenerate body tissues, using stem cells to never die. Theoretically, this process could go on indefinitely, making jellyfish biologically immortal, although in practice they can still die.

11. Glass Octopus or Vitreledonella Richardi
The glass octopus, actually called Vitreledonella richardi, may look like a sculpture but it is real. It belongs to the family Amphitredidae, it is completely transparent and can be found in tropical seas. It is also not too large with its length varying from 11 to 45 cm.

12. The Pelagic Nudibranch

The Pelagic Nudibranch is one of the most famous gastropods. It’s an ocean hunter. To catch prey, with its jelly-like body, it uses its antennae (looks like rhino horn). It is also quite small in size with a maximum length of only 5.5 cm.

13.Glass eel European
eel is also known as glass eel because of its transparent body. They live in rivers in Europe and their length varies from 60 to 80 cm, while eels are rarely 1-1.5 m long. They have a long lifespan, especially in captivity (80-150 years), but there is no specific lifespan for wild animals.

14. Little Bullfish
This beautiful creature is a young bullfish. These fish usually live around coral reefs in lagoons and the most interesting thing about them is not only that they are translucent, but also that they mostly float instead of swimming.

15. Golden Ladybug

This beautiful, unreal beetle is Charidotella sexpunctata or best known as the golden ladybug. It belongs to the family of leaf beetles, family Chrysomelidae. What’s fascinating is that its color changes through different stages of its life cycle, growing up, during mating, etc. Adult yellow ladybugs turn from yellow to red when they’re stressed.

16. Sea
Angels, Gymnosomata, or simply sea butterflyfish are mollusks that live in the Arctic Ocean. They are hermaphrodites and feed as they glide through the water. They are completely transparent with fluttering wings that make them look like flying angels as they move.

17. Cranchiidae glass squids
are commonly known as lens squids. There are about 60 different species known in the family Cranchiidae and their lengths vary from 10 cm to more than 3 m. They have semi-transparent skin that is used as a camouflage.

18. Snails with semi-transparent shells
We’re not used to seeing transparent shells, but this snail’s shell is actually almost completely translucent. Its original name was Zospeum tholussum and was discovered in 2013, in the depths of a cave in Croatia. It is a small species about 3 mm in size. These glass snails are usually blind and extremely cute.