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Desert Cetaceans Texy by A.R. Royo Photos by Dan Nougier The Sea of Cortez contains a rich and diverse marine life, including a number of marine mammals called Cetaceans. Among the more prominent species of these mammals residing in the Gulf of California's Sonoran Desert are the Finback Whale, the California Sea Lion and the Common Dolphin. The Finback Whale A resident population of 250 Finback Whales (Bala ...

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Celebrate the 25th Anniversary of Gray's Reef by Helping the Oceans----Every Day! Gray's Reef National Marine Sanctuary , designated in January 1981, is one of the largest near shore live-bottom reefs in the southeastern United States. The sanctuary is located 17.5 nautical miles off Sapelo Island, GA, and is one of 13 marine sanctuaries that make up the National Marine Sanctuary System. Within the 17-square-nautical-mile sanctuary, there are both rocky ...

Aloha and Welcome to the Hawaiian Islands Humpback Whale National Marine Sanctuary! The Sanctuary protects humpback whales and their habitat in Hawai`i. ANNOUNCEMENTS A humpback mother and its calf. Photo credit: Flip Nicklin, Minden Pictures, NOAA Fisheries Permit #987 IT'S WHALE SEASON IN HAWAI`I! Don't miss your chance to get outside to see Hawai`i's humpback whales, often referred to as "gentle giants", before they head back to ...

Gulf Office of the Sea Turtle Restoration Project HEART, P.O. Box 681231, Houston, TX 77268-1231 THE KEMP’S RIDLEY NESTING SEASON STARTS! The greatest number of endangered Kemp’s ridley sea turtles nesting on one day in Texas was recorded Wednesday, April 26. Dr. Donna Shaver, Chief of the Sea Turtle Science and Recovery Division of the National Park Service at the Padre Island National Seashore announced Wednesday evening that the first 10 Kemp's ridley nests located on the Texas coa ...

Order Squamata Superfamily Xenophidia (= Colubroidea = Caenophidia) Family Hydrophiidae (Sea Snakes) Appearance: Adapted to marine life and swimming by having a tail fin and laterally compressed bodies. Salt glands surrounding the tongue help maintain osmotic balance in sea water. The palatine bones lack choanal processes. Laticauda is the least adapted to sea life; it retains the wide ventral scales typical of terrestrial snakes and has only a poorly developed tail fin. Ventral scal ...

Introduction to the "Green Algae" The "green algae" is the most diverse group of algae, with more than 7000 species growing in a variety of habitats. The "green algae" is a paraphyletic group because it excludes the Plantae. Like the plants, the green algae contain two forms of chlorophyll, which they use to capture light energy to fuel the manufacture of sugars, but unlike plants they are primarily aquatic. Because they are aquatic and manufacture their own food, these organisms are called ...

JELLYFISH Jellyfish is the common name for the invertebrate animals making up two classes of the coelenterate phylum. The most dangerous is the box jellyfish which swims near northern Australia and southern Asia. A person who is badly stung by one of these can die in four minutes. Jellyfish are slow movers, so they rely on their nasty stings to keep them safe. Jellyfish don't have brains or refined sense organs such as eys or ears. The term jellyfish applies specifically to the free-swimming, gelatinous organism called the medusa, the form usually taken during the sexual stage of these animals. Large jellyfish are up to 2 m (6.6 ft) wide. Back to Contents Page

Already a member? LOGIN Home | Editorial Board | Newsletters | International | Store | Free Trial Britannica Online Dictionary & Thesaurus Content Related to this Topic 2 5 This Article's Table of Contents Introduction Origins of marine life The marine environment Geography, oceanography, and topography Physical and chemical properties of seawater Ocean currents Marine biota Plankton Nekton Benthos Links between the pelagic environments and the benthos ...

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Sustainable Seas Expeditions April 1999 - March 2003 The NOAA Sustainable Seas Expeditions (SSE) Web offering was retired on March 28, 2003. The Sustainable Seas Expeditions was a five-year project of underwater exploration and discovery of the marine world with special emphasis on the national marine sanctuaries of the United States. Led by Dr. Sylvia Earle, scholar and Explorer-In-Residence of the National Geographic Society (NGS), the project was a collaborative effort of NGS ...

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Radiolarians Click on the images to see a more detailed version... Radiolarians are tiny protozoans that live exclusively in the ocean. Although they seem small to us, they are quite large compared to other protozoans. Some species are several millimeters in diameter. Radiolarian skeletons are amazingly complex. They can either be spherically symmetrical, or bilaterally symmetrical (like the one below). Having spines extending from the main body is a way of increasing surface ...

Biggest, Smallest, Fastest, Deepest: Marine Animal Records Welcome to the Records Page. We've made every effort to be accurate, but if you see an error or omission in this page, please let us know! If you have evidence of an error, please . Thanks! INDEX Whales Molluscs Seals and Sea Lions Cnidarians Fish Porifera (sponges) Echinoderms Seaweed Crustaceans Whales Largest Whale: Blue Whale, Balaenoptera musculus female: 33.27 meters (109 fee ...

OCTOPUS The octopus is a shy creature. It spends lots of time lurking in crevices, waiting for food to pass by. If it gets frightened or angry, it changes colour immediately. An octopus hides in a rocky lair during the day and comes out at night to hunt for food, such as crabs. It approaches its prey slowly, then it pounces and wraps its tentacles around the unsuspecting meal. The octopus has eight legs. The blue ringed octopus could fit in a person's hand, but you shouldn't try it as it has a lethal bite. Look out for its warning system - blue ringed spots appear on its skin if it is irritated, or when it is feeding. Go to contents

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Sawfish sharks with swords FAQ SPECIES AQUARIUMS IS IT ILLEGAL TO BUY / SELL SAWFISH SNOUTS? REFERENCES SAWFISH TOYS LINKS Sawfishes are a group of extremely large shark-like rays which haunt the muddy shallows of tropical bays, rivers and lakes. Though fearsome in appearance, sawfishes are very docile. Due to decades of incidental capture in nets set for other species, sawfishes are in serious trouble and populations worldwide are severely deplet ...

startseahorsespipefishkeepingbreedinggalleryexoticlinkstanksauthor Pipefish There are about 200 different types of pipefish all around the world, but only a few of them are regularly imported. On this site you´ll find several typical representatives of these strange looking fish. Syngnathus biaculeatus/sp. - Alligator pipefish This species is coloured green or brown and achieves a body lenght of about 11 to 12 inch. The head section is very similar to their relatives, the ...

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THE DESERT PUPFISH (CYPRINODON MACULARIUS) By: Simeon Andrews and Rebeca Brown INTRODUCTION: The desert pupfish, a small cyprinodontid ranging from one to two inches in length, is an endangered species. But once there was an abundance of the desert pupfish in portions of southern Arizona and southeast California, northern Baja California and Sonora, the United States, and Mexico. The historical habitats varied in complexity, size, and character. The habitats included margins of la ...

The Hawaiian Green Turtle (Chelonia mydas) Aikane, the quintessential Hawaiian green turtle, settling into her favourite resting spot at the Turtle House, Honokowai. 57K JPEG The following is based on information from the Interim Recovery Plan for Hawaiian Sea Turtles, National Marine Fisheries Service, 1992. Some biological information has been extracted from Synopsis of Biological Data on the Green Turtle in the Hawaiian Islands, G. H. Balazs, U.S. Department of Commerc ...

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