The Most: Related to Animals -1 (Invertebrates)

1.       Animal which turns its body most times	Cockroach (25 times/sec)
2.       Deepest Living	Myriotrochus bruuni. Found at a depths up to 10,710 m or (35,130 ft). Marianas Trench
3.       Deepest living mollusc	Ewig's Gastroverm lives at an ocean depth of about 20,000 ft (over 4500m). Over 1,100 species of molluscs have been discovered living deeper than 1 mile (1600m).
4.       Fastest flying butterfly	Monarch butterfly (17 miles/hr)
5.       Fastest flying insect	Australian Dragonfly (58 km/hr)
6.       Fastest running insect	Tropical Periplaneta Americana (5.4 km/hr)
7.       Fastest Wing Beat	A tiny midge (mosquito group) can beat its wings 1000 times a second.
8.       Fattest fly	Pantophthalmus bellardi (Central America). 2 inch
9.       Heaviest insect	Goliath beetle (about 100 g & 11 cm long) (found in Africa).
10.     Heaviest Starfish	Thromidia catalai (Maximum weight of 6 kg 13 lb 4 oz). New Caledonia
11.     Highest lifespan in insect	Splender beetle (it has found the beetle which lived 51 years) Ant (Queen). 11-16 yrs. Some are 28 years.
12.     Highest olfactory power in insects	Emperor Moth (can recognize the smell of same race at 11 km away)
13.     Largest and heaviest invertebrate (largest and heaviest mollusc)	Giant squid (Architeuthis): Max. size at 13 m (43 ft) for females and 10 m (33 ft) for males from caudal fin to the tip of the two long tentacles. (Weight 5 tones, length 18 m, diameter 6 m).
14.     Largest annelid	The hydrothermal vent tubeworm, Riftia pachyptila, reaches lengths of 7.9 feet (2.4 meters)
15.     Largest ant	Dinopohtera (ant of Africa) Daurilus (female). About 40 mm long
16.     Largest arthropod	Pseudocarcinus gigas, the Tasmanian Giant Crab, obtains a carapace width of 1.5 feet (0.46 meters)
17.     Largest beetle	Goliath beetle
18.     Largest Butterfly	Queen Alexandra bird wing (found in Guinea). Wingspan 28 cm, weight 5 g
19.     Largest class	Hexapoda (Insecta)
20.     Largest colonial Cnidarian, that is not a coral reef	Bubblegum Coral, (Paragorgia arborea) that can reach heights of 9.8 feet (3 m)
21.     Largest coral reef	Great barrier reef of north east coast of Australia (2000 km)
22.     Largest crustacean	Giant spider crab
23.     Largest ctenophore	Cestum veneris ("Venus' girdle") and Velamen parallelum. They have up to 1.5 m (4.9 ft) length.
24.     Largest ctenophore	Lampocteis cruentiventer with a length of 0.52 feet (16cm)
25.     Largest dragonfly	Giant petal tai (Australia). Wingspan: 6.3 inch
26.     Largest earth worm	Microchaetus rappi
27.     Largest echinoderm	The starfish Thromidia catalai and Thromidia gigas can reach 3.2 lbs (6 kg).  ”Thromidia catalai-the South Pacific species reaches a maximum span of a little over 2 feet (60-65 cm). But Thromidia gigas, which occurs in South Africa, was measured with a diameter of nearly 70 cm!”
28.     Largest egg in insect	Walking stick insect (egg has 8 mm long)
29.     Largest eye  (as compared to body size) among  animals	Giant squid (Architeuthis) Largest recorded eyes: Atlantic Giant Squid - approximate diameter of 50 cm (20 inches).
30.     Largest flat worm	Taenia solium (Tapeworm)
31.     Largest flatworm	Diphyllobothrium latum, the human tapeworm, at a length 65 feet (20 meters)
32.     Largest fly	Goromidas heros (South America)-   6 cm long
33.     Largest group in insects	Beetles (about 300,000 items)
34.     Largest group of animals that utilize the beating of cilia for locomotion	Ctenophore (Comb jellies)
35.     Largest hemichordate	The largest colony is Cephalodiscus densus with a length of  8.2 feet (2.5 meters) and the noncolonial species is Balanoglossus gigas with a length of 9.8 inches (250 mm)
36.     Largest honeybee	Apis dorsata (South East Asia)-3 cm long
37.     Largest insect	Atlas moth (wingspan: 33 cm)
38.     Largest jelly fish	Cyanea arctica
39.     Largest known bivalve	"Giant Clam" (Tridacna gigas  Linne) Weight: 734 pounds (333kg) Length: nearly 4 ft (1.4m) in.
40.     Largest locust Swarm	A Swarm of desert locusts that crossed the Red Sea in 1889. Swarm estimated to contain 250,000,000 insects weighing about 500,000 tonnes and covering 5,000 sq. km
41.     Largest moth	Atlas moth
42.     Largest non-colonial Cnidarian	Arctic Lion’s Mane Jellyfish, Cyanea arctica, with a bell diameter of up to 1.7 m and a tentacle length of 36.6 m
43.     Largest phylum	Arthropoda
44.     Largest roundworm	Placentonema gigantissima (a parasite found in the placentas of sperm whales). Max. length: 30 ft (9 m)
45.     Largest roundworm in human	Ascaris lumbricoides
46.     Largest Sea Cucumber	Stichopus variagatus. 1 m long by 24 cm diameter (39 ins by 9.5 ins). Philippines
47.     Largest sea snail (univalve)	Syrinx aruanus Linne (Australian trumpet or false trumpet). Length: nearly 800mm (2.5 ft). Girth: 1m. Weight: 18kg
48.     Largest Sea Urchin	Sperosoma giganteum. The shell has an average diameter of 32 cm (12.6 ins). Japan
49.     Largest snail (land snail)	Giant African Land Snail (Achatina fulica). Weight: up to 2 pounds (900g) Length: 15.5 inches (390mm)
50.     Largest sponge	Spheclospongia vesparium
51.     Largest sponge	Aphrocallistes vasus (The cloud sponge) can cover an area of 11.15 feet (3.4m) x 3.6 feet (1.1m)
52.     Largest starfish	Midgardia xandros- Can have an arm reach of 1.38 m (4 ft 6 in). Gulf of Mexico Pyenopodia hellianthoides (30 cm diameter)
53.     Largest tentacle	Cyanea arctica
54.     Largest terrestrial invertebrate	Giant earth worm
55.     Lightest insect	Banded louse (16 lakhs of louse together weighs only 1g)
56.     Longest and highest jumping insect	Flea (jumps 220 times long and 150 times height as compared to body size)
57.     Longest animal	The Arctic Lion's mane jellyfish. It was found washed up on the shore of Massachusetts Bay in 1870.
58.     Longest antenna in insect	A type of cricket found in Central Nigeria
59.     Longest insect	Giant stick insect (about 33 cm long)
60.     Longest migratory insect	A kind of dragonfly (11,000 mile from India to Africa)
61.     Loudest insect	Cicada (male). Sound will reach 400 m away
62.     Maximum number of chromosomes in animals	Aulacantha (Radiolarin); 2n=1600
63.     Minimum number of chromosomes in animals	Ascaris megalocephalus (2n=2)
64.     Most dreadful ant	Black Bulldog ant (Australia and Tasmaina). 1.6 inch long. One bite can kill a man.
65.     Most precious coral	Corallium nobile (red coral)
66.     Most primitive Annelid	Polygordius
67.     Most primitive Arthropod	Peripatus
68.     Most primitive helminth	Planaria
69.     Most primitive molluscan	Chaetoderma and Neomenio
70.     Shortest lifespan	Mayfly. 30 min to 1 day after the larval stage. Some die within 5 min.
71.     Slowest moving snail	Helix aspersa
72.     Smallest annelid	Dinophilus gyrociliatus reaches lengths of only 0.002 inches (0.05 mm)
73.     Smallest arachnid	Eriophyid mites (125 to 250 μm in length)
74.     Smallest arthropod	Stygotantulus stocki, a minute parasite on copepods, only reaches a length of 0.004 inches (0.095mm)
75.     Smallest arthropod (Smallest crustacean)	Tantulocarid Stygotantulus stocki, at a length of only 94 µm (0.0037 in)
76.     Smallest beetle	Beetles of the tribe Nanosellini are all less than 1 mm long; the smallest include Scydosella musawasensis at 300 μm long, Vitusella fijiensis at 310 μm, and Nanosella at 300 to 400 μm. These are among the tiniest non-parasitic insects.
77.     Smallest butterfly	Brephidium barberae (Dwarf blue)
78.     Smallest Cnidarian	Psammohydra nanna (tiny hydra), with a height of only 0.02 inches (0.4 mm)
79.     Smallest ctenophore	Minictena luteola with a length of 0.06 inches (1.5mm)
80.     Smallest Cucumber	Psammothuria ganapatii Length = less than 4mm (0.16 ins). India
81.     Smallest echinoderm	The sea cucumber Parvotrochus belyaevi at 0.06 inches (1.5 mm)
82.     Smallest echinoderm (smallest sea cucumber)	Psammothuria ganapatii, a synaptid which lives between sand grains on the coast of India. Its maximum length is only 4 mm.
83.     Smallest flat worm	Cyrdodactylus funduli at a length of  0.1 inches (0.258mm)
84.     Smallest hemichordate	The smallest colony is the species Rhabdopleura compacta at 0.11 inches in diameter (2.9 mm ) and the smallest noncolonial species is Saccoglossus pygmaeus with a length of 0.12 inches (3 mm)
85.     Smallest honeybee	Apis florea
86.     Smallest insect	Fairy fly (0.005 mm) Adult males of the parasitic wasp Dicopomorpha echmepterygis can be as small as 139 μm long; females are 40 percent larger.
87.     Smallest known snail shell	Ammonicera rota. Diameter: 0.02 inches.
88.     Smallest molluscan	The small marine snail, Ammonicera minortalis, at only 0.015 inches (0.4 millimeters) in diameter
89.     Smallest roundworm	Species Micronema, living between individual grains of sediment, only reach lengths of 0.012 inches (0.3 mm)
90.     Smallest Sea Urchin	Echinocyamus scaber. Diameter of shell = 5.5 mm (0.22 ins). Eastern Australia
91.     Smallest sponge	Leucosolenia blance
92.     Smallest sponge	Sycon cillatum (0.05mm height)
93.     Smallest Starfish	Patiriella Parvivipara. Maximum Radius of 4.7 mm (0.18 ins). South Australia
94.     Smallest tapeworm of man	Hymenolepis nana (10 cm with 200 proglottids)
95.     Tallest sponge	Poterion
96.     Thickest shell in insect	Beetle