Sentences with word «rabbitfish»

This seaweed is so nasty, in fact, that most marine herbivores avoid it on sight — except for one species of rabbitfish that quivers with excitement every time it spots this not - so - common algae.

«Trojan fish»: Invasive rabbitfish spread invasive species.»

Tropical rabbitfish and the deforestation of a warming temperate sea.

Tropical species including rabbitfish and parrotfish appear to be mainly responsible.

In recent decades, rabbitfish numbers have increased, resulting in hundreds of kilometres of deforested areas and a 40 per cent decrease in the variety of marine species.

Red Sea rabbitfish invaded the Mediterranean through the Suez Canal in the 20th century.

Back on the reef slope you can regain your breath and tick off sightings of Andaman rabbitfish, Indian sailfin tang and the Andaman sweetlips.

Keep your eyes peeled for coral trout, barramundi, sharks, turtles and rabbitfish as you discover the plentiful deep coral formations and soft coral gardens.

A Fox - face Rabbitfish, which is another weird human invention — it simply doesn't make sense to juxtapose fox and rabbit!

After swimming around a pinnacle surrounded by Redtooth Triggerfish, surgeonfish and rabbitfish with a few Dogtooth Tuna hovering around, the second half of the dive happened on a plateau gazing at the coral formations and looking for critters, like Tasseled Scorpionfish, Bubble Coral Shrimp and Porcelain Crab, among others.

Hundreds of barracuda's and rabbitfish escort you during this dive and queen angelfish love this reef.

As well as a colourful hard coral reef top you get to see plenty of big fish like giant sweetlips, six bar angelfish, coral trout and even rabbitfish.

At least 10 species of foraminifera hitch rides inside the guts of rabbitfish, which defecate out the still - living protists in the Mediterranean.

The rabbitfish devour algal forests and the tiny interlopers carpet the seafloor, driving out some native species.

Scientists spotted this Chimaera, or rabbitfish, near a site known as the Northwest Guam Seamount.

Tropical fish expanding their ranges into temperate areas include unicornfish, parrotfish, and rabbitfish.

As the Mediterranean warms the rabbitfish are expanding their range westward, putting other shallow ecosystems at risk.

If Fijians developed a particular taste for that one rabbitfish, for instance, turtle weed might begin to grow out of control, launching its bid for world, or at least South Pacific, domination.

Museum specimens confirmed that rabbitfish have been eating and moving species for decades.

New research, lead by Tamar Guy - Haim of the Israel Oceanographic and Limnological Research (IOLR) / the GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel released in Limnology and Oceanography Letters this week, reveals that the rabbitfish brought the other marine life with them.

Although plant - eaters, the rabbitfish accidentally scoop up marine animals from the sea floor while feeding.

• The most degraded reefs lack browsers (rudderfish, parrotfish, and surgeonfish), scraper / excavators (parrotfish), grazers (rabbitfish, damselfish), and planktivores (fusiliers), so the first steps in reef recovery depends on allowing these species and the services they provide to return.

Rabbitfish are bad enough, but I love them.

This can be held in check with a few fish that are primarily vegetarians, such as tangs, rabbitfish and algae - blennies.

You'll find yellow boxfish, rabbitfish, bluespotted ribbontail rays, goatfish and grouper making their homes there.

The southern end of the beach has quite a few rocks, but it's also a popular choice for snorkelers because you can watch schools of colorful parrot fish, sergeant fish and rabbitfish.

Those were seen swimming among jacks, snappers, surgeonfishes, rabbitfishes and more.

Schooling Oriental, Diagonal - banded Sweetlips, Blue - lined and Spanish Flag Snappers, Pick - Handle and Yellowtail Barracudas, Hawksbill Turtles, Blacktip Reef Sharks, Bargibanti and Pontohi Pygmy Seahorses, schooling batfishes, surgeonfishes, rabbitfishes and Big - Eye Jacks and so on... A great dive!

Schooling fish was a highlight of this dive: fusiliers, Redtooth Triggerfish, rabbitfish, surgeonfish and chubs were some of them.