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Acanthurus tractus is native to the shallow sub-tidal areas of the western Atlantic Ocean, the Caribbean Sea and parts of the Gulf of Mexico. Its range extends from North Carolina to the Bahamas, Bermuda, Florida and Tuxpan , Mexico, including the Caribbean Sea and the Flower Garden Banks National Marine Sanctuary in the Gulf of Mexico.
The Gulf of Mexico (Spanish: Golfo de México) is an oceanic basin and a marginal sea of the Atlantic Ocean, [3] [4] mostly surrounded by the North American continent. [5] It is bounded on the northeast, north, and northwest by the Gulf Coast of the United States; on the southwest and south by the Mexican states of Tamaulipas, Veracruz, Tabasco, Campeche, Yucatán, and Quintana Roo; and on the ...
This category contains fish of the Gulf of Mexico in the Caribbean Sea of North America. Pages in category "Fish of the Gulf of Mexico" The following 76 pages are in this category, out of 76 total.
It is a predatory fish which has a diet comprising crabs, shrimp, large krill, squid, anchovies, and lanternfish. [4] The ocean whitefish forages by digging into the substrate. [2] The predators of the ocean whitefish include the giant sea bass (Stereolepis gigas), school shark (Galeorhinus galeus) and California sea lion (Zalophus ...
The Atlantic croaker (Micropogonias undulatus) is a species of marine ray-finned fish belonging to the family Sciaenidae and is closely related to the black drum (Pogonias cromis), the silver perch (Bairdiella chrysoura), the spot croaker (Leiostomus xanthurus), the red drum (Sciaenops ocellatus), the spotted seatrout (Cynoscion nebulosus), and the weakfish (Cynoscion regalis).
The black and white snapper has a wide Indo-Pacific range. It occurs along the eastern coastline of Africa from the Red Sea south as far as South Africa, the Seychelles, islands in the Mozambique Channel, Madagascar and western Mascarenes, east to the Maldives, Laccadives, the Chagos Islands, Cocos (Keeling) Islands and Christmas Island and Sri Lanka.
This 'Alien Fish' Came From the Ocean, Not Outer Space As if ripped straight from a scene in a sci-fi thriller, an 'alien fish' is making headlines this week after being captured off the coast of ...
Kyphosus sectatrix has a circumglobal distribution and is found in the warmer areas of all the world's oceans. In the eastern Atlantic Ocean it has been recorded from St Helena and Ascension Island the Azores, the Canary Islands, it has been reported from the Algarve in Portugal and there are records from the Mediterranean.