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Paralabrax clathratus, the kelp bass, bull bass or calico bass, is a species of marine ray-finned fish, from the subfamily Serraninae, classified as part of the family Serranidae which includes the groupers and anthias. It is found in the eastern North Pacific Ocean where it is an important species for both recreational and commercial fisheries.
Gibbonsia elegans is a relatively small, mottled fish with a slender body and triangular head. It has a compressed, almost angulliform body type. It has a compressed, almost angulliform body type. The maximum length the spotted kelpfish has been found to reach is 120 mm.
It is kept well-concealed within the kelp beds. Eggs are either brown or red, due to the color of the yolk. The female lays 400–1200 eggs and spaces them out among the algae nests. They develop very quickly and hatch at around 2 weeks [11]. This species of fish has a planktonic larval stage that lasts about 2 months [7].
Some of these fish are also popular catches in recreational fishing. The kelp bass ( P. clathratus ) and barred sand bass ( P. nebulifer ) are sought after in the waters along the coast of Southern California and northern Baja California , where they have both been in the top three species caught on commercial sportfishing tours.
They eat all sizes of algae, from something as small as macroalgae to something as large as kelp, and have been known to eat Coralline algae. [8] In cooler waters, sea urchins have even been known to eat enough to control the size and compositions of kelp forests. Sea urchins act as scavengers and will also eat dead algae that they find.
Kelp greenlings 21 or 22 spines in their first dorsal fin and 24 soft rays in their second dorsal fin while the anal fin contains a single spine and 23 or 24 soft rays. [2] The males are gray to brownish olive in color, dotted with irregular blue spots over the anterior half to two-thirds of their body.
Northern kelp crabs are herbivores with seasonal preferences. In the summer months when algae is prevalent, they eat nearly exclusively algae. They eat kelp, rockweed, sargassum, and some types of red algae. Whereas in the winter, they are more carnivorous, eating small mussels, barnacles, bryozoans, and hydroids.
Epinephelus bruneus, commonly known as the longtooth grouper or the kelp grouper, is a species of marine ray-finned fish, a grouper from the subfamily Epinephelinae which is part of the family Serranidae, which also includes the anthias and sea basses.