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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.
The flanks are marked with numerous dusky or red-brown spots and the tail is marked with a black blotch on each lobe of the caudal fin. The scales are cycloid. [4] In older fish the tail blotches may become fused to form a vertical bar. [5] The dorsal fin has 10 spines and 10-12 soft rays while the anal fin has 3 spines and 9-11 soft rays. [2]
Geoglyphs on deforested land in the Amazon rainforest. A geoglyph is a large design or motif – generally longer than 4 metres (13 ft) – produced on the ground by durable elements of the landscape, such as stones, stone fragments, gravel, or earth.
The black jack has characteristic black fins and scutes. The black jack is a large fish, and is confidently known to grow to a length of 1 m [8] and a weight of 17.9 kg, [21] although is more common at lengths under 70 cm. [15] At least one source asserts a fish of 2.21 m has been reported, [22] which if true would make the black jack the second largest species of carangid behind the ...
These Red Sea fish are listed as Reef-associated by Fishbase: Acanthuridae. Acanthurus gahhm, Black surgeonfish; Acanthurus mata, Elongate surgeonfish; Acanthurus nigrofuscus, Brown surgeonfish; Acanthurus sohal, Sohal surgeonfish; Acanthurus tennentii, Doubleband surgeonfish; Acanthurus xanthopterus, Yellowfin surgeonfish
A fish (pl.: fish or fishes) is an aquatic, anamniotic, gill-bearing vertebrate animal with swimming fins and a hard skull, but lacking limbs with digits. Fish can be grouped into the more basal jawless fish and the more common jawed fish, the latter including all living cartilaginous and bony fish, as well as the extinct placoderms and ...
Gravel (/ ˈ ɡ r æ v əl /) is a loose aggregation of rock fragments. Gravel occurs naturally on Earth as a result of sedimentary and erosive geological processes; it is also produced in large quantities commercially as crushed stone. Gravel is classified by particle size range and includes size classes from granule- to boulder-sized fragments
Dascyllus melanurus, known commonly as the four stripe damselfish, blacktail dascyllus, humbug damselfish, blacktail damselfish, and blacktail humbug, is a species of fish in the family Pomacentridae. It is native to the western Pacific Ocean. It is sometimes kept as an aquarium pet. [1]