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# Not Evaluated Animals (Page 5 of 6)

> Species the IUCN has not assessed. Most of the described species on Earth sit in this gap.

**122 species in this collection.**

- [Peacock Mantis Shrimp](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/mantis-shrimp/) (*Odontodactylus scyllarus*)
  - **Superpower**: A club strike that hits twice, and eyes that rotate to read polarized light
  - **Musical Match**: Goran Bregović (Balkan Brass & Romani Folk Riot)
- [Peacock Spider](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/peacock-spider/) (*Maratus volans*)
  - **Superpower**: A hidden abdominal fan, waved in time with the third pair of legs, and vibrations sent through the ground
  - **Musical Match**: Earth, Wind & Fire (Classic Funk, Soul & Disco)
- [Planarian](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/planarian/) (*Schmidtea mediterranea*)
  - **Superpower**: Planarians regenerate rapidly from tiny tissue pieces
  - **Musical Match**: Laurie Spiegel (Krautrock & Electronic Pioneers)
- [Portuguese Man o' War](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/portuguese-man-o-war/) (*Physalia physalis*)
  - **Superpower**: A colony of clones working together as one, with four specialized parts for floating, capturing prey, feeding, and reproduction.
  - **Musical Match**: SALEM (Darkwave & Ethereal Witch House)
- [Purple Sea Urchin](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/purple-sea-urchin/) (*Strongylocentrotus purpuratus*)
  - **Superpower**: Scrapes algae with five teeth and digs hollows in rock
  - **Musical Match**: Godflesh (Industrial Rock & Cyberpunk)
- [Red Imported Fire Ant](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/red-imported-fire-ant/) (*Solenopsis invicta*)
  - **Superpower**: Links bodies with its nestmates to form a waterproof raft
  - **Musical Match**: LCD Soundsystem (Dance-Punk & Electroclash)
- [Red King Crab](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/red-king-crab/) (*Paralithodes camtschaticus*)
  - **Superpower**: Young crabs travel in pods of tens of thousands
  - **Musical Match**: Pelican (Blackgaze & Atmospheric Post-Metal)
- [Sacred Scarab](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/sacred-scarab/) (*Scarabaeus sacer*)
  - **Superpower**: Rolled dung balls of 16 to 86 cc in a Turkish study, and holds flight heat in its thorax
  - **Musical Match**: Kavinsky (80s Retrowave & Synthwave)
- [Seven-Spot Ladybird](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/seven-spot-ladybird/) (*Coccinella septempunctata*)
  - **Superpower**: Bleeds toxic alkaloids from its leg joints
  - **Musical Match**: The White Stripes (Garage Blues & Swamp Rock)
- [Silkworm](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/silkworm/) (*Bombyx mori*)
  - **Superpower**: Spins a single silk thread up to 1,800 metres long
  - **Musical Match**: My Bloody Valentine (Dream Pop & Shoegaze)
- [Silverfish](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/silverfish/) (*Lepisma saccharinum*)
  - **Superpower**: Keeps molting as an adult and can go up to a year without food
  - **Musical Match**: Laurie Anderson (Art Pop & Baroque Pop)
- [Southern Black Widow](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/southern-black-widow/) (*Latrodectus mactans*)
  - **Superpower**: Venom that acts on the motor endplate to allow a massive release of noradrenaline and acetylcholine, causing excessive stimulation and fatigue of the muscle.
  - **Musical Match**: Intervals (Math Rock & Instrumental Virtuoso)
- [Spitting Spider](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/spitting-spider/) (*Scytodes thoracica*)
  - **Superpower**: Fires a zigzag spray of silk, glue and venom at up to 28.8 meters a second, then bites once the glue is dry
  - **Musical Match**: Igorrr (Breakcore & Chaotic Drill)
- [Spotted Lanternfly](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/spotted-lanternfly/) (*Lycorma delicatula*)
  - **Superpower**: Stores a defensive chemical from tree of heaven, and birds in a study avoided lanternflies collected from it
  - **Musical Match**: Kylie Minogue (2000s Pop & R&B Anthem)
- [Striped Bark Scorpion](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/striped-bark-scorpion/) (*Centruroides vittatus*)
  - **Superpower**: A venom peptide, CvIV4, that slows the closing of Nav1.7, a sodium channel in pain-sensing nerves, plus a defense split by sex: in lab tests males sprinted faster and females stung faster.
  - **Musical Match**: ZZ Top (Classic Hard Rock & Southern Blues)
- [Suffolk Sheep](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/suffolk-sheep/) (*Ovis aries*)
  - **Superpower**: Rapid growth: lambs can gain more than a pound (0.45 kg) a day and be market-ready as early as three to four months old.
  - **Musical Match**: The Stone Roses (Britpop & 90s Madchester)
- [Sydney Funnel-Web Spider](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/sydney-funnel-web-spider/) (*Atrax robustus*)
  - **Superpower**: Robustoxin (delta-atracotoxin-Ar1), a 42-amino-acid peptide in male venom that stops some sodium channels in nerve cells from switching off properly. Its toxin family likely evolved to deter vertebrate predators such as bandicoots, birds and lizards, but robustoxin severely affects the nervous systems of humans and monkeys.
  - **Musical Match**: Joan Jett & the Blackhearts (Classic Hard Rock & Southern Blues)
- [Tardigrade (Water Bear)](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/tardigrade/) (*Hypsibius exemplaris*)
  - **Superpower**: Dries into a dormant "tun" in which its cells and mitochondria shrink, and answers gamma-ray damage by rapidly switching on many DNA-repair genes.
  - **Musical Match**: Aphex Twin (IDM & Glitch Ambient Synthesis)
- [Tiger Pistol Shrimp](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/pistol-shrimp/) (*Alpheus bellulus*)
  - **Superpower**: A claw whose plunger-and-socket mechanism fires a cavitating water jet; in a related snapping shrimp, the bubble it creates collapses at temperatures of at least 5,000 kelvin and flashes with light.
  - **Musical Match**: The Dillinger Escape Plan (Mathcore & Chaotic Noise)
- [Tsetse Fly](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/tsetse-fly/) (*Glossina morsitans*)
  - **Superpower**: Feeds its young on "milk" from glands inside the mother
  - **Musical Match**: Mala (Heavy UK Grime & Sub-Bass)
- [Vampire Squid](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/vampire-squid/) (*Vampyroteuthis infernalis*)
  - **Superpower**: Thriving where oxygen is only a fraction of surface levels, and pulsing blue light at its arm tips.
  - **Musical Match**: Burial (Future Garage & Deep Electronica)
- [Water Buffalo](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/water-buffalo/) (*Bubalus bubalis*)
  - **Superpower**: Wallows in mud to cool off, with sweat glands that are poorly spread
  - **Musical Match**: Crowbar (Sludge Metal & Abyssal Doom)
- [Water Flea](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/water-flea/) (*Daphnia pulex*)
  - **Superpower**: Some clones grow neckteeth in response to chemical cues from the predator Chaoborus
  - **Musical Match**: Caribou (Future Garage & Deep Electronica)
- [Western Honeybee](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/honeybee/) (*Apis mellifera*)
  - **Superpower**: Waggle-dance directions read from the sun and gravity, a barbed sting that costs its owner her life, and a nest built from hexagonal wax cells.
  - **Musical Match**: Wizkid (Afrobeats & Modern Amapiano)

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