Showing posts with label Saltwater. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Saltwater. Show all posts

Monday, October 17, 2011

Permit

They are primarily a schooling fish when younger, traveling in groups of 10 or more.

In on the whole presence, the permit is a brightly silver fish with gloom fins and a dim or radiant blue to greenish or faded back. The midsection is regularly yellowish, and frequently the pelvic fins and the front projection of the butt-centric fin have an orange tint. Numerous people have a dim, round dark domain on the sides antiquated of the pectoral fins, but also some have a gloomy midbody smudge.

Tomtate

Like other grunts, this species is a schooling fish often found in large groups around natural and artificial reefs.

Tomtate
Thin-bodied, the tomtate is silver-white for the most part and has a yellow-tan stripe in the length of its form, resolution in a gloom smear on the caudal peduncle. The pelvic and the butt-centric balances are yellowish. The within of the mouth is red.

Tuesday, October 4, 2011

Delta Smelt

Because of its one-year life cycle and relatively low fecundity, it is very susceptible to changes in the environmental conditions of its native habitat.

Delta Smelt
The delta smelt is a pelagic (lives in the open water column away from the bottom) and euryhaline species (tolerant of a wide salinity range). It has been collected from estuarine waters with salinities up to 14 parts per thousand. 

Croaker

They are found worldwide, in both fresh and saltwater, and are typically benthic carnivores, feeding on invertebrates and smaller fish.

Croaker
Croaker have an extended dorsal fin getting to practically to the tail, and an indent amidst the beams and spines of the dorsal, in spite of the fact that the several parts are in fact divide. The butt-centric fin ordinarily has several spines while the dorsal fins are profoundly scored or split. Most species have an adjusted or sharp caudal fin. The mouth is situated level and is ordinarily subpar.

Friday, September 30, 2011

Hagfish

Hagfish have no true fins and have six or eight barbels around the mouth and a single nostril.

Hagfish are marine craniates of the class Agnatha or Myxini, moreover reputed to be Hyperotreti. Some specialists respect Myxini as not having a place with the subphylum Vertebrata. That is, they are the just living beasts that have a skull but not a vertebral section.

Tuesday, August 23, 2011

Pajama Cardinalfish


A hardy and peaceful fish that can live many years in a marine aquarium.

Pajama Cardinalfish
The Pajama Cardinalfish (Sphaeramia nematoptera) is a species of fish belonging to the Apogonidae family. Pajama Cardinalfish, also known as Polka-dot Cardinalfish or Spotted Cardinalfish, has a greenish-yellow face with orange eyes. The midsection is silver with bold, black scalar margins and the posterior section of the body is silver with orange polka-dots.

Tuesday, August 9, 2011

Leafy Seadragon


The Leafy Seadragon uses the fins along the side of its head to allow it to steer and turn. However, its outer skin is fairly rigid, limiting mobility.

Leafy Seadragon
Much like the seahorse, the Leafy Seadragon's name is derived from its resemblance to another creature (in this case, the mythical dragon). While not large, they are slightly larger than most seahorses, growing to about 20–24 cm (8–10 in). They feed on plankton and small crustaceans.

Monday, July 25, 2011

Damselfish


In order to avoid predators, many of these colorful fish have adapted to live among the deadly stinging tentacles of sea anemones.

Damselfish
Some members of damselfish family have a unique relationship with certain sea anemones, for they are able to dart away from predators and hide among the anemones’ stinging tentacles. This is made feasible resulting from the fact that the fish have exceptional chemicals in the covering of defensive bodily fluid on their figures. This makes them immune to the anemones’ stings.

Wednesday, July 20, 2011

Wahoo


Wahoo feed on such pelagic species as porcupinefish, flyingfish, herring, pilchards, scad, lanternfish, and small mackerel and tuna, as well as on squid.

Wahoo
The wahoo grows so quickly that both sexes span sexual maturity during the first year of life. They average 10 to 30 pounds, and 4 to 5 foot lengths are common. The maximum size is 7 feet and more than 180 pounds. The alltackle world record is a 158-pound, 8-ounce fish taken off Baja California, Mexico, in 1996.

Wednesday, July 13, 2011

Red Grouper


 The Red Grouper is an opportunistic feeder and a top predator in the reef community.

Red Grouper
The red grouper (Epinephelus morio) is a species of fish in the Serranidae family. Its natural habitats are open seas, shallow seas, subtidal aquatic beds, coral reefs, rocky shores, sandy shores, estuarine waters, intertidal flats, intertidal marshes, coastal saline lagoons, coastal freshwater lagoons, and karsts.

Alewife


Small and silvery gray with a greenish to bluish back tinge, the alewife usually has one small dark shoulder spot and sometimes other small dusky spots.

Alewife
A small herring, the alewife is important as forage for gamefish in many inland waters and along the Atlantic coast. It is used commercially in pet food and as fish meal and fertilizer, and it has been a significant factor in the restoration of trout and salmon fisheries in the Great Lakes. The alewife can be distinguished from other herring by its lower jaw, which projects noticeably beyond the upper jaw.

Sunday, July 10, 2011

Fangtooths


These voracious marine hunters have fearsome, sharp fangs and especially large mouths. 
Once seized, there is no escape for 
any unfortunate victim targeted by a fangtooth.

Fangtooths
For all their notoriety as deadly hunters of the deep, fangtooths are small fish that can themselves fall victim to larger hunters like tuna and marlin. Against such large predators, fangtooths have little defense. Young fangtooths additionally move assurance in opposition to predators in the shape of a spine on top of the head and another on the bottom edge of one of the bones that cover the gills. Baby fangtooths look so different from adults that, for about a hundred years, they were each thought to belong to separate species.

Thursday, July 7, 2011

Hermit Crabs


Instead of growing a natural shell of its own, the recluse crab makes utilize of a used shell for protection.  It often shares this “home” with other animals such as sea anemones, barnacles, and worms.

Hermit Crabs
Hermit crabs are scavengers on the seashore and seabed. They contrast from the true crabs on account of they make a point not to have a fifth pair of walking legs. Their fourth pair of legs is very small and can be seen only when the animal is removed from its snail shell home. This pair of legs grips the inside of the shell and holds the animal in place.

Wednesday, July 6, 2011

Starfish


With their perfectly shaped and attractively colored bodies, starfish are reminders of happy seaside vacations.

Starfish
Starfish are the most generally viewed parts of the echinoderms; the spiny-skinned animals. All echinoderms have five-sided bodies, and this shape can be seen in many starfish. When grown-up, the body of a typical starfish is drawn out in five rays, or arms, radiating from a central point.

Monday, July 4, 2011

Milkfish


Looking somewhat like a large mullet or a tarpon, the milkfish has a streamlined and compressed body, large eyes, and a silvery metallic coloring.

Milkfish
The milkfish is exceptionally paramount in the Indo-Pacific, where it is utilized largely for nourishment, but is chiefly overlooked in North America. However, its tarpon like appearance has caused anglers to misidentify it and spend much time futilely trying to catch it on artificial lures and flies.

Anchovies


What they lack in size, anchovies make up for in numbers. The largest shoals consist of countless millions of individuals, all creating their route through the untamed ocean 
in search of food.

Anchovies
Like all shoaling fish, anchovies convey with one another and so are equipped to swim in close formation. Their silvery sides help them do this by providing a visual aid. However, anchovies are unusual in that they can also use pulses of sound to keep in touch with each other when swimming at high speed. 

Wolffish


The wolffish lacks pelvic fins, and the dorsal fin, which begins just behind the head, extends to the caudal fin but is not joined to it.


Wolffish
Eel-like in body shape, wolffish are blenny relatives that live in the cold to arctic waters of the Atlantic and the Pacific. They are parts of the Anarhichadidae family, which incorporates seven species. The Atlantic wolffish (Anarhichas lupus) inhabits the western Atlantic from southern Labrador and western Greenland to Cape Cod, rarely occurring as far south as New Jersey. 

Sunday, July 3, 2011

Long-finned goby


The long-finned goby is a tropical, demersal and amphidromous fish that are found in the waters of the Indo-West Pacific region: from Kenya to Transkei in South Africa and eastward to the tropical Western Pacific region.

Long-finned goby
The male long-finned goby grows up to 13.5 cm in total length. It has 7 dorsal spines, 12 to 13 dorsal soft rays, 1 anal spine, 13 anal soft rays. The body is violet in color.

Friday, July 1, 2011

Blue Tang


A member of the surgeonfish family that has distinctive coloration and is occasionally encountered by anglers, the blue tang is sometimes used as an aquarium fish and is also marketed fresh.

Blue Tang
The oval, profound-bodied, and packed blue tang is more roundabout than are different surgeonfish. Its coloring is almost entirely blue, ranging from powdery to deep purple, and it has many dark or light blue horizontal stripes running down the sides and blending into the background.

Thursday, June 30, 2011

Pilotfish


Pilotfish are a unique and circumtropical species widely found in the Atlantic, the Pacific, and the Indian Oceans.

PilotfishPilotfish are renowned for accompanying large sharks on their oceanic wanderings, as well as whales, rays, schools of various other fish, and ships. A pilotfish is said to have followed a sailing ship for 80 days.