Sentences with phrase «as anemone»

You find some great coral gardens teeming with marine life such as anemone fish, octopus and occasionally sharks and turtles, as well as some great muck diving sites with special critters such as frog fish, seahorses and once in a while the blue - ringed octopus.
Expect to see a lot of smaller fish such as anemone fish, pipefish, and gobies.
Pierre - Joseph Redoute could be called the first «commercial» botanic artist by producing prints of popular or attractive plants which he knew would sell, such as Anemone coronaria.
* Richard Hawke, plant evaluation manager of the Chicago Botanic Garden in Glencoe, will explain how the garden tests garden plants to choose the best for the Chicago region, such as Anemone x hybrida «Andrea Atkinson,» a top fall - blooming anemones.
Visitors to the site can learn how the vents are formed, the human submersible used to explore them and about each of the various life forms that exists there such as anemones, zoarcid fish, and the Pompeii worm.
We have a good variety of soft colourful corals around the north Gilis such as anemones, bubble coral (a favorite turtle food), Daisy coral, whip coral, feather stars, sea fans, sea pens, leather coral, sponges, barrel coral and in some spots we get soft coral colonies.

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Collectively, though, they're all single cells in the organization known as The New York Metropolitan Baseball Club Inc., which has the moral compass of a sea anemone.
If your beach has some rock pools then these are a perfect way to explore «under the waves» in a child friendly manner — all you need is a simple net and a bucket — you'll commonly find small fish especially flat fish that live on the sea floor their fry try and stay in the rock pools as it's safer, shrimps, anemones, crabs, molluscs like snails and bivalves like mussels.
The cnidocysts» brutal efficiency served as inspiration for the Israel - based drug company NanoCyte, which hopes to harness the anemone's stinging cells to create a unique drug for diabetics.
Sea anemones are part of the same group of invertebrates as jellyfish and possess the same potent stinging cells, known as cnidocytes.
Sometimes the immune system overreacts dangerously, as Richet and Protier discovered when the second dose of anemone allergen killed the dogs they were experimenting on.
These toxins spanned the breadth of the animal kingdom, including ancient venomous groups such as centipedes, scorpions, spiders, coleoids (octopus, cuttlefish and squids) and cnidarians (jellyfish, sea anemones and hydras).
Anemones are solitary beings, though spot prawns and other marine organisms, such as the rockfish in the picture, gravitate toward them for habitat.
As a result, the shells they inhabit often show signs of wear and, as in this case, colonisation by other animals: on the left and right sides of the shell are anemones, with barnacles and tube worms also attacheAs a result, the shells they inhabit often show signs of wear and, as in this case, colonisation by other animals: on the left and right sides of the shell are anemones, with barnacles and tube worms also attacheas in this case, colonisation by other animals: on the left and right sides of the shell are anemones, with barnacles and tube worms also attached.
As an adult, she studied how sea anemones survive strong waves and how insects fly.
A variety of vertebrates and a handful of invertebrates, including octopuses and spiders — even a bacterium — are members of the personality club, but the researchers say sea anemones set a new bar as the animal with the simplest nervous system.
This looks like a miniature sea anemone, and is also known as the scyphistoma because the terminology wasn't confusing enough already.
All major groups of animals — an entire kingdom of multicellular life that today includes insects, worms, shellfish, starfish, sea anemones, coral, jellyfish, and vertebrates like us — bloomed suddenly in the fossil record during an evolutionary extravaganza known as the Cambrian explosion, which occurred 530 million years ago.
The sponge was indeed at the base of animal lineage, and just above it were the cnidarians, such as jellyfish, anemones, and corals.
«As an example of the potential impact of our finding, you can think about the phyla Cnidaria, which contains all of the world's anemones, corals, and jellyfish,» said senior author Mercer R. Brugler, a research associate in the Museum's Division of Invertebrate Zoology and an assistant professor at NYC College of Technology, CUNY.
The anemone does not consider the fish as food and protects it in exchange for food that the fish brings into this symbiosis.
This kind of structure, known as a nerve net, can still be seen in the quivering bodies of jellyfish and sea anemones.
But a siphonophore colony is made up of many parts that are each equivalent to free living organisms such as sea anemones and «true» jellyfish.
Colorful fish, spiny anemones and shy octopi live on coral reefs — as do millions of other species.
1), sea anemone Boule1 was used as the Boule homolog sequence.
The birth of Boule is estimated to be after the divergence of placozoan from the common ancestor (open circle) of Cnidaria (such as sea anemone) and Bilateria.
The sea anemone (Sa) Boule1 shows greater similarity and also shares the three internal exon - intron junctions as the consensus Boule, whereas sea anemone Boule2 only shares two exon - intron junctions.
This sea anemone is a relatively simple diploblastic animal with a tube - shaped body (see Video 1), but it displays a striking morphological feature: the extensive remodelling of its tentacle tubes in response to diverse environmental constrains such as nutrient availability, stress, and injury (Figure 1).
Imagine your mouth as a pleasant little coral reef with different corals, anemones, and other critters.
Our species now acts as hosts to glowing sea anemones who control our bodies and minds.
The Excite Pro could barely hold a candle to the other two, as the clown fish were almost lost in the shadow of the anemone.
On a side note, I have observed that it is extremely important to specifically feed marine invertebrates such as crabs, hermit crabs, snails, sea hares, starfish, anemones and many others.
Everyone reading this is a mammal (unless you are a particularly sentient anemone, coelacanth or axolotl), and one of the things that pegs us as mammals and unites us all is... well, boobs.
Some anemones will attack coral, and they can certainly kill fish, as well.
As if that wasn't enough of a problem, items like shrimp, crabs, anemones, sea stars and lobsters can also be predatory on each other.
Non-coral inverts are huge as well, so set aside a month for things like snails, crabs, hermit crabs, sea stars, anemones, shrimp, bivalves, etc..
Speaking of anemones, both regular and tube - dwelling anemones species are typically lumped into the marine invertebrate category, as they should be.
Animals such as zoanthids and corallimorphs come to mind, and they are actually colonial anemones.
During the 30 minute «Snorkel Safari» you'll learn how the reef was formed, how coral feeds, grows and breeds as well as seeing some very special inhabitants - from parrotfish to magnificent anemones, cleaner wrasse and of course, anemonefish (nemo!).
With these soft corals we often find our macro like Squat lobsters both hairy and common, squat shrimps, translucent anemone shrimp, nudibranchs, orangutan crabs, hermit crabs, porcelain crabs, mantis shrimps and flatworms as well as isopods.
As the crabs live in or under the anemone which in turn dances with the waves you really have to time it right to get the best shot.
Coral Garden offers more variety and is loved by photographers for the diversity of macro marine life as well as ribbon eels, anemone fish, mantis shrimp, countless nudibranchs and yet more colourful reef fish..
These animals belong to the same group of animals as the sea anemone, sea fan, jellyfish, and Portuguese man - o - war.
During the 30 minute «Snorkel Safari» you'll learn how the reef was formed, how coral feeds, grows and breeds as well as seeing some very special inhabitants - from parrotfish to magnificent anemones, cleaner wrasse and of course, anemone fish (Nemo!).
Hunt out such creatures as stonefish, scorpionfish, octopus, clown anemone fish and turtles, not to mention the many schools of fish that call this place home.
Related to the corals and jellyfish, the anemones seldom build living chambers as do the corals, and do not drift freely through the waters as do the jellyfish.
As the Tricolour Anemone has stinging tentacles, it affords some protection for the crab, and the crab constantly carries the anemone to new feedingAnemone has stinging tentacles, it affords some protection for the crab, and the crab constantly carries the anemone to new feedinganemone to new feeding areas.
Boat Dives: 4 - YOU choose dive sites from Racha Yai, Racha Noi, Phi Phi Islands, Shark Point, Kingcruiser Wreck, Anemone Reef - you'll visit as many different sites as possible
The east coast bays tend to be more rocky — ideal for exploring the small rockpools and gullies for weird and wonderful sea creatures such as wild fish, crabs, sea squirts, starfish and anemones.
- You choose the dive sites from Racha Yai, Racha Noi, Phi Phi Islands, Shark Point, Kingcruiser Wreck, Anemone Reef - you'll visit as many different sites as possible.
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