Dein Suchergebnis zum Thema: Plankton

Chaetodipterus faber This silver and black striped, disk-shaped fish schools in groups as large as 500. Although it’s the only of its family to live in the Western Atlantic, there are a few fish that look similar. The Atlantic spadefish can grow to almost 36 inches and 20 pounds. Some anglers lik
This fish may also feed occasionally on plankton as well as nibble on jellyfish tentacles

Haemulon plumierii These schooling reef fish have almond shaped bodies with pointed snouts and forked caudal (tail) fins. They are generally silvery white or cream, with touches of bronze or yellow, and striped with blue at their heads. Their mouths are red, and they make a grunting noise by grin
The small juvenile grunts pick plankton, primarily copepods, from the water column

Thalassoma bifasciatum This schooling reef fish has a varied assortment of color patterns based on its life phase and behavior. It gets its name from the final phase where it has a bright blue head followed by black and white bars and then a green or blue-green body with a gold sheen. The final p
in schools of thousands of individuals foraging along the bottom or feeding on plankton

Diplectrum formosum These small in-shore fish are territorial and loyal to the home hole or crevice that they have made or found. They are brown on top, fading to white underneath, with darker vertical bars, a mid-line stripe ending in a dark spot at the tail, and irregular blue horizontal lines.
Young sand perch settle out of the plankton, becoming demersal at lengths of less

Gymnothorax funebris One of the largest of the morays, the green moray is often found at 6 feet long but can reach 8 feet and 65 pounds. Although it is actually dark grey-brown, it is covered in a thick yellow mucus, giving it its green coloring and protecting it from parasites and disease. Like
These transparent, ribbon-like larvae drift amongst the plankton as they develop.

Seriola dumerili This large fish is slender and agile, and can grow to be more than 6 feet long. Its is mostly a silvery white color, with a darker gray or bluish coloring from above. This is a popular recreational fish but because it is in the of the apex of the marine food chain, the larger one
Juvenile greater amberjacks feed on plankton such as decapod larvae and other small

Many questions scientists get asked relate in some way to why we do work for the sake of it; most often, data itself does not have an immediate return on investment. However, data is needed before returns under a respectable model can ever be projected. This distinction is made plain by research
Some sharks swim with open mouths to filter plankton, and do not bite at all; others

Many species live in seagrasses: Bacteria and Fungi Bacteria and fungi are responsible for the decomposition of dead seagrass blades. Microfauna and meiofauna colonize the dead seagrass blades, feeding on the bacteria and fungi as well as on the dissolved organic matter released from the decompo
zooplankton: animal portion of the plankton, composed primarily of protozoans, small

Cetorhinus maximus This slow-moving migratory shark is the second largest fish, growing as long as 40 feet and weighing over 5 tons. It is often sighted swimming close to the surface, huge mouth open, filtering 2,000 tons of seawater per hour over its complicated gills to scoop up zooplankton. Ba
There is a theory that the basking shark feeds on the surface when plankton is abundant

Confirmed Megamouth Shark Sightings There have been 273 confirmed occurrences of megamouth sharks around the world and we are investigating reports of additional individuals. There is a small area in Taiwan where this species is frequently caught as bycatch in commercial drift nets. These localize
sightings are likely due to commercial fisheries targeting fish feeding off the same plankton