Sie befinden sich aktuell in den blog Blog-Archiven für den folgenden Tag 24.7.2010.
- Best Of Underwater (11)
- Poseidon (34)
- Tauchen (43)
- Umwelt und Marine Schutz (30)
- 19.5.2012: New Scuba Diving Pictures from yesterdays dives!
- 10.5.2012: Poseidons new Picture Gallery
- 1.5.2012: Footage of a Techno Fish, Harlequin Sweetlip juv.
- 21.4.2012: Poseidon Dive Center on Facebook
- 17.4.2012: Protect our Sharks with your Signature!
- 29.1.2012: Poseidon Dive Center now on Google+
- 22.3.2011: 21.03.2011 Dolphins on the way home from Phi Phi Islands
- 14.3.2011: Things to know about sharks
- 19.2.2011: It’s a great day for the whales
- 5.2.2011: Egypts Political Change
Archive für 24.7.2010
A newly Discoverd Fish but the Oilspill threatens the small Pancake Batfish
24.7.2010 von Daniel Sasse.
Halieutichthys aculeatus (Mitchill 1818)
Pancake Batfish threatened by the Louisiana Oil-Spill where its teritorial is placed!
Max. size: 100 mm (4in.)
Easily identified by: rounded disk, pectoral fin lobes connected to the tail by skin, reticular pattern on the dorsal surface, ventral surface of body naked.
Range and depth: North Carolina to northern South America, including the Gulf of Mexico, Caribbean Sea, Cuba, Venezuela, and the Bahamas in 0 - 421 meters (0 - 1389 feet) (Miller 1965, Bullis and Struhsaker 1970, McEachran and Fechhelm 1998).
Habitat: occurs on substrata consisting of hard sand and coral, sand and sandy clay, or sandy mud with shell debris (Richards and Bradbury 1999).
Feeding: polychaete worms, small crustaceans (e.g. mysids), and small gastropods (Winans 1975, Nagareda 2005, Nagareda and Shenker 2008).
Ogcocephalus declivirostris Bradbury 1980
Slantbrow Batfish
Max. size: 137 mm (5.4 inches) (McEachran and Fechhelm 1998)
Easily identified by: rostrum slopes downward (not upwards or horizontal) with respect to the long axis of the body, pectoral fins translucent and taper to a point (not rounded) (Bradbury 1980).
Range and depth: northern and western Gulf of Mexico in 3.5 – 180 meters (11.55 – 594 feet) with one specimen recorded from the Straits of Florida at 388 meters (1280.4 feet) (Bradbury 1980).
Feeding: primarily tiny gastropods, specifically Nassarius sp, and Cosmioconcha calliglypta (Nagareda 2005, Nagareda and Shenker 2008).
Ogcocephalus pantostictus Bradbury 1980
Spotted Batfish
Max. size: 310 mm (12.2 inches) (McEachran and Fechhelm 1998)
Easily identified by: pattern of dark spots over the entire dorsal surface of the body.
Range and depth: north and west Gulf of Mexico, from Mobile Bay, Alabama to Tampico, Tamaulipas (Mexico) in 9-31 meters (29.7-102.3 feet) (Bradbury 1980).
Feeding: gastropods (Cosmioconcha calliglypta, Kurtziella sp., Oliva sayana), xanthid crabs and swimming crabs (Callinectes similis) (Nagareda 2005, Nagareda and Shenker 2008).
Other notes: rostrum characterized by ontogenetic allometry (very long in juveniles, then shortens with growth to become very short in adults
More Information here and Pictures here!
Geschrieben in Umwelt und Marine Schutz, Tauchen | Keine Kommentare »