Sentences with phrase «of toadfish»

With vibrant, bright yellow fins and a distinctive patterning, the COZUMEL SPLENDID TOADFISH is a species of toadfish entirely endemic to the island of Cozumel.

Not exact matches

Toadfish are well known for using a strange set of hoots and grunts to attract mates or scare off predators.

When Aaron Rice at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York, recorded the calls of captive three - spined toadfish, he noticed that some of the waveforms contained short but complicated patterns.

Rice and his team analysed the hoot - like calls of two closely related toadfish species with single swim bladders, and found they can not make non-linear sounds.

Male Atlantic toadfish, for example, contract and relax their swimbladder muscles up to 100 - 200 times per second to produce short, repetitive «boatwhistle» calls interspersed with relatively long periods of silence.

The Atlantic toadfish solves this problem, in part, by producing large amounts of a protein called parvalbumin that can mop up excess calcium from the muscle cytoplasm.

It is full of a vast variety of exotic fish, such as the rare Whitespotted Toadfish.

Turneffe Atoll — the largest and most biologically diverse atoll in the western hemisphere — supports a wide range of diverse aquatic species such as the endemic white spotted toadfish and the white lined toadfish.

Thousands of schooling Creole wrasse, many varieties of hamlets and the white - spotted toadfish can often be found here.

This area is used by hundreds of fish species as a nursery, including black grouper, tiger grouper, mutton snapper, splendid toadfish, and horse eye jacks.

Some of the fish species that you may see at these locations, include eagle rays, parrotfish, angelfish, black grouper, golden tailed eels, green morays, spotted morays, stonefish, squirrel fish, grunts, and the rare splendid toadfish, among others.

A very helpful and knowledgeable dive professional, John is excellent at spotting tiny marine creatures and is a bit of a White - Spotted Toadfish whisperer.

With more than 200 mangrove islands, the atoll is a natural nursery for a wide variety of exotic fish, including the rare Whitespotted Toadfish, which is endemic to Belize.

Turneffe Atoll's reef supports a wide range of diverse aquatic species such as the endemic white spotted toadfish and the white lined toadfish.

While underwater at Johnny's wrench we saw a huge array of Gorgonians, Plate Corals, Mackerel, Stingrays, and Whitespotted Toadfish.

During our time exploring Johnny's Wrench we saw Lots of Caribbean Spiny Lobsters, Rays, Groupers, Snappers, Spotted Drums and White Spotted Toadfish.

Thank to the eyes of the dive guides, critters were the main highlight, to name a few: juvenile Reef Octopus, Decorator Crab, Toadfish and Tasseled Scorpionfish.

It is one of the few places in the region to spot eels and the reef is packed tight with groupers, toadfish, razorfish, yellowtail snapper, and pelagic species.

One of her favorite Splendid Toadfish photos from Cozumel was published in Bond's Biology of Fishes, 3rd edition.

If you're familiar with the «prrrp, prrrp, prrrp» sound, you might recognize the call of one of the curious looking toadfish that are native to Belize.