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# Data Deficient Animals

> Species nobody has been able to count properly. Common in the deep sea, where surveying is expensive and rare.

**4 species in this collection.**

- [Arapaima](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/arapaima/) (*Arapaima gigas*)
  - **Superpower**: A lung-like swim bladder for breathing air, scale armor that resists piranhas, and a bony or toothed tongue
  - **Musical Match**: Mastodon (Sludge Metal & Abyssal Doom)
- [Flamboyant Cuttlefish](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/flamboyant-cuttlefish/) (*Metasepia pfefferi*)
  - **Superpower**: In captivity it often sends colors traveling across its mantle, in many kinds of situations. Other cuttlefish are generally seen doing this while hunting or showing aggression.
  - **Musical Match**: Pat Thomas & Kwashibu Area Band (West African Highlife & Palm-Wine Music)
- [Orca (Killer Whale)](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/orca/) (*Orcinus orca*)
  - **Superpower**: Sophisticated matrilineal acoustic dialects and cooperative wave-washing attacks.
  - **Musical Match**: Rage Against the Machine (Nu-Metal & 90s Alt-Metal)
- [Pink Fairy Armadillo](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/pink-fairy-armadillo/) (*Chlamyphorus truncatus*)
  - **Superpower**: An almost entirely underground mammal in a shell of bony plates and hardened scales, and almost all of that shell is flexible.
  - **Musical Match**: Pale Waves (Dream Pop & Neon Indie)

Conservation categories are from the [IUCN Red List of Threatened Species](https://www.iucnredlist.org/). AnimalTracks is independent of IUCN.