Sentences with phrase «by goby»
«It shows for the first time that jellyfish tissue — once assumed to be a dead end for resources in the food web — can be recycled back into the ecosystem by the gobies.»
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That means endangered mussels are further threatened by hampered reproduction on round gobies that essentially «wastes» larvae.
In last summer's survey, the team collected 30 000 specimens and discovered 40 new species, including new kinds of snails and spiders, a transparent fish, and several new species of goby that live in rivers heated by water from hot springs.
Southern tidewater goby has only been found in three lagoons in San Diego County, making this new species critically endangered, and the researchers call for conservation actions to prevent possible extinction as the habitat is threatened by California's drought.
An endangered fish along the coast of California — the tidewater goby — may actually be two species rather than one, according a study published July 27, 2016 in the open - access journal PLOS ONE by Camm Swift from the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County, US, and colleagues.
The tidewater goby lives in coastal lagoons and is threatened by coastal development and drought.
That includes San Francisco Bay, where the majority of inhabitants are alien species such as Chinese mitten crabs, New Zealand sea slugs and Japanese gobies — all brought by ballast water.
As part of the Deep Reef Observation Project (DROP), initiated by the Smithsonian Institution, a new goby fish species was discovered in the southern Caribbean.
In a study published in 2012, researchers lead by P. Andreas Svensson of Linnaeus University in Sweden tracked the behaviour of fish called desert gobies.
The significance of these diurnal al fresco gatherings is not known, but may have something to do with these sharks being cleaned by small wrasses and at least one species of goby.
Kelp forests are found to a great extent and are populated by Garibaldi, leopard sharks, gobies, rockfish, and sculpins.
Several «cleaning stations» dot the reef and big groupers and snappers settle down to be picked clean by neon gobies, Pederson cleaner shrimp and juvenile bluehead wrasse.
Take a giant stride off our SCUBA divers - only pier «baby dock» and you're already looking at clusters of starlet coral, surrounded by colorful wrasse and gobies, and the drop - off starts in 30 feet, only a few kicks away.