--- title: "#Invertebrate Animals & Superpower Traits (29 Species) | AnimalTracks.wiki" description: "Animals lacking a backbone or spinal column, representing over 95 percent of all animal species on Earth. Explore all 29 species with this trait in the AnimalTracks wildlife encyclopedia." image: "https://animaltracks.wiki/icon-512.png" --- # #Invertebrate Animals & Evolutionary Adaptations > Animals lacking a backbone or spinal column, representing over 95 percent of all animal species on Earth. - **Trait Category**: Lineage & Anatomy - **Species Count**: 29 Curated Creatures - **Browse Web**: [View interactive trait gallery](https://animaltracks.wiki/tags/invertebrate/) ## Species With #Invertebrate - [Amazonian Giant Centipede](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/giant-centipede/) (*Scolopendra gigantea*) - **Superpower**: Venom-bearing fangs modified from the legs on its first body segment. - **Danger**: High | **Conservation**: Not Evaluated - **Soundtrack**: Korn (Nu-Metal & 90s Alt-Metal) - [Atlantic Blue Crab](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/atlantic-blue-crab/) (*Callinectes sapidus*) - **Superpower**: Rear legs shaped like paddles, built for swimming - **Danger**: Low | **Conservation**: Not Evaluated - **Soundtrack**: Wolf Alice (90s Grunge & Heavy Alt-Rock) - [Atlantic Horseshoe Crab](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/atlantic-horseshoe-crab/) (*Limulus polyphemus*) - **Superpower**: Blue blood that clots when it meets certain bacteria, which labs use to test medicines and medical devices for endotoxins. - **Danger**: Low | **Conservation**: Vulnerable - **Soundtrack**: Philip Glass (Neo-Classical & Baroque Chamber) - [Banana Slug](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/banana-slug/) (*Ariolimax columbianus*) - **Superpower**: Slime that numbs the mouth and tongue if ingested - **Danger**: Low | **Conservation**: Not Evaluated - **Soundtrack**: Caspian (Post-Rock & Cinematic Orchestral) - [Bobbit Worm](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/bobbit-worm/) (*Eunice aphroditois*) - **Superpower**: An eversible pharynx tipped with sharp maxillae that thrusts out of its burrow fast enough to split a passing fish in half, with five antennae and two eyes to detect prey. - **Danger**: High | **Conservation**: Not Evaluated - **Soundtrack**: Deftones (Nu-Metal & 90s Alt-Metal) - [Bold Jumping Spider](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/bold-jumping-spider/) (*Phidippus audax*) - **Superpower**: Sneaks up and pounces on prey, trailing a silk safety line - **Danger**: Low | **Conservation**: Not Evaluated - **Soundtrack**: Eville (Nu-Metal & Heavy Alt-Metal) - [Calanus Copepod](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/calanus-copepod/) (*Calanus finmarchicus*) - **Superpower**: Stores energy in a large oil sac of wax esters - **Danger**: Low | **Conservation**: Not Evaluated - **Soundtrack**: Steve Roach (Glacial Ambient & Drone Soundscapes) - [Common Cuttlefish](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/common-cuttlefish/) (*Sepia officinalis*) - **Superpower**: Camouflage built from about 30 skin pattern components, shape-shifting papillae muscles, and polarized vision that may help it see through other animals' camouflage. - **Danger**: Low | **Conservation**: Least Concern - **Soundtrack**: Deftones (90s Alt-Metal & Shoegaze) - [Common Earthworm](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/common-earthworm/) (*Lumbricus terrestris*) - **Superpower**: Crawls in waves, lengthening and shortening its body segments - **Danger**: Low | **Conservation**: Not Evaluated - **Soundtrack**: Chaosbay (Modern Metalcore & Djent) - [Common Pill Bug](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/common-pill-bug/) (*Armadillidium vulgare*) - **Superpower**: Curls into a ball when squeezed or shaken - **Danger**: Low | **Conservation**: Not Evaluated - **Soundtrack**: Oasis (Britpop & 90s Madchester) - [Common Starfish](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/common-starfish/) (*Asterias rubens*) - **Superpower**: Pushes its stomach into a mussel shell and digests the meal inside - **Danger**: Low | **Conservation**: Not Evaluated - **Soundtrack**: Bohren & der Club of Gore (Glacial Ambient & Drone Soundscapes) - [European Medicinal Leech](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/european-medicinal-leech/) (*Hirudo medicinalis*) - **Superpower**: Anticoagulant saliva, and one blood meal that can last it 12 to 18 months - **Danger**: Low | **Conservation**: Near Threatened - **Soundtrack**: Lindsey Stirling (2010s Pop & Electropop) - [Garden Snail](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/garden-snail/) (*Cornu aspersum*) - **Superpower**: Seals itself off with a parchment-like membrane in hot, dry weather - **Danger**: Low | **Conservation**: Not Evaluated - **Soundtrack**: Hania Rani (Neo-Classical & Baroque Chamber) - [Giant Antarctic Sea Spider](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/giant-antarctic-sea-spider/) (*Colossendeis megalonyx*) - **Superpower**: Like other sea spiders it has no gills: oxygen diffuses in through pores in its cuticle - **Danger**: Low | **Conservation**: Not Evaluated - **Soundtrack**: BIG|BRAVE (Sludge Metal & Heavy Drone) - [Giant Barrel Sponge](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/giant-barrel-sponge/) (*Xestospongia muta*) - **Superpower**: Can filter up to 50,000 times its own volume of seawater every day - **Danger**: Low | **Conservation**: Not Evaluated - **Soundtrack**: Sunn O))) (Sludge Metal & Heavy Drone) - [Giant Clam](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/giant-clam/) (*Tridacna gigas*) - **Superpower**: Hosts billions of algae in its own tissues and gets the majority of its nutrients from them - **Danger**: Low | **Conservation**: Critically Endangered - **Soundtrack**: Hiroshi Yoshimura (Glacial Ambient & Drone Soundscapes) - [Giant Huntsman Spider](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/giant-huntsman-spider/) (*Heteropoda maxima*) - **Superpower**: A leg span of up to 30 cm - **Danger**: Low | **Conservation**: Not Evaluated - **Soundtrack**: Lustmord (Glacial Ambient & Drone Soundscapes) - [Goose Barnacle](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/goose-barnacle/) (*Lepas anatifera*) - **Superpower**: Makes a glue whose molecular adhesion differs from every other permanently gluing marine animal studied to date - **Danger**: Low | **Conservation**: Not Evaluated - **Soundtrack**: Air (Trip-Hop & Velvet Downtempo) - [House Centipede](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/house-centipede/) (*Scutigera coleoptrata*) - **Superpower**: Rear legs that cross above and outside the legs in front of them, which prevents entanglement - **Danger**: Low | **Conservation**: Not Evaluated - **Soundtrack**: Tune-Yards (Art Punk & Experimental Post-Punk) - [Luna Moth](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/luna-moth/) (*Actias luna*) - **Superpower**: Spinning hindwing tails that gave tailed moths a survival advantage of about 47% over tailless ones against big brown bats - **Danger**: Low | **Conservation**: Not Evaluated - **Soundtrack**: Augustus Pablo (Roots Reggae & Heavy Dub) - [Pacific Oyster](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/pacific-oyster/) (*Magallana gigas*) - **Superpower**: Filters up to 50 gallons of seawater a day - **Danger**: Low | **Conservation**: Not Evaluated - **Soundtrack**: Kelly Lee Owens (IDM & Glitch Ambient Synthesis) - [Planarian](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/planarian/) (*Schmidtea mediterranea*) - **Superpower**: Planarians regenerate rapidly from tiny tissue pieces - **Danger**: Low | **Conservation**: Not Evaluated - **Soundtrack**: Laurie Spiegel (Krautrock & Electronic Pioneers) - [Purple Sea Urchin](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/purple-sea-urchin/) (*Strongylocentrotus purpuratus*) - **Superpower**: Scrapes algae with five teeth and digs hollows in rock - **Danger**: Low | **Conservation**: Not Evaluated - **Soundtrack**: Godflesh (Industrial Rock & Cyberpunk) - [Red Abalone](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/red-abalone/) (*Haliotis rufescens*) - **Superpower**: Clamps its shell down onto the rock, and the strength of its muscle makes it extremely difficult to detach. - **Danger**: Low | **Conservation**: Critically Endangered - **Soundtrack**: Caroline Shaw (Neo-Classical & Baroque Chamber) - [Red King Crab](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/red-king-crab/) (*Paralithodes camtschaticus*) - **Superpower**: Young crabs travel in pods of tens of thousands - **Danger**: Low | **Conservation**: Not Evaluated - **Soundtrack**: Pelican (Blackgaze & Atmospheric Post-Metal) - [Sandfish Sea Cucumber](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/sandfish-sea-cucumber/) (*Holothuria scabra*) - **Superpower**: Turns sea floor sediment into about 26 pellets an hour - **Danger**: Low | **Conservation**: Vulnerable - **Soundtrack**: Rhythm & Sound (Sub-Bass Dub & Industrial Heavyweight) - [Signal Crayfish](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/signal-crayfish/) (*Pacifastacus leniusculus*) - **Superpower**: Highly resistant to the crayfish plague - **Danger**: Low | **Conservation**: Least Concern - **Soundtrack**: Ladytron (Dance-Punk & Electroclash) - [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. - **Danger**: Low | **Conservation**: Not Evaluated - **Soundtrack**: Aphex Twin (IDM & Glitch Ambient Synthesis) - [Water Flea](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/water-flea/) (*Daphnia pulex*) - **Superpower**: Some clones grow neckteeth in response to chemical cues from the predator Chaoborus - 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