Sentences with phrase «single lionfish»

Surveys have found that introducing just a single lionfish to a reef leads to a 79 percent reduction in juvenille fish populations within five weeks.

Dr. Mark A. Hixon, Professor of Zoology, and a team of graduate and undergraduate students from Oregon State University have demonstrated that a single lionfish can reduce the population of juvenile fish on small coral reefs by 80 percent in just five weeks.

The team recorded sounds in an outdoor tank for five days, at first with a single lionfish and then with a group of five individuals.

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, an amazing night dive with (in a single dive): a frogfish, an octopus (which species I haven't yet identified) with crazy white - blue - green color patterns, a Spanish dancer, juvenile broadclub cuttlefish, early juvenile boxfish, juvenile ocellated lionfish... We had a pretty cool batch of guests these last days, helping making life at the resort fun, as well as the arrival of a new DMT, Tram.

Huge barrel sponges and Gorgonians dominated this reef; in a single sponge you can find sheltering a number of Lionfish, Shrimps, Worms, Nudibranch and other varieties of macro sea life.

Lastly a number of dwarf lionfish — distinguishable by the fact that the pectoral fin is a single filament, not separated as in the common lionfish.