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The aim of the Handbooks is to provide illustrated identification keys to the insects of Britain, together with concise morphological, biological and distributional information. The series also includes several Check Lists of British Insects. All books contain line drawings, with the most recent volumes including colour photographs.
The Peterson Field Guides (PFG) are a popular and influential series of American field guides intended to assist the layman in identification of birds, plants, insects and other natural phenomena. The series was created and edited by renowned ornithologist Roger Tory Peterson (1908–1996).
Caesionidae was named by the French zoologist Charles Lucien Bonaparte in 1831. [1] The family takes its name from the genus Caesio which was named in 1801 by Bernard Germain de Lacépède, the name derived from caesius meaning "blue", as the type species of Caesio is the blue and gold fusilier (Caesio caerulaurea). [2]
These Red Sea fish are listed as Reef-associated by Fishbase: . Acanthuridae. Acanthurus gahhm, Black surgeonfish; Acanthurus mata, Elongate surgeonfish; Acanthurus nigrofuscus, Brown surgeonfish
The maximum shell length for this species is 18 cm, usually to 14 cm. [2] Like in all Mitridae, the shell is elongate, somewhat fusiform, with a high spire.The aperture is elongate and narrow, and the outer lip is smooth and not lirate (grooved).
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Shortnose blacktail reef shark or grey reef shark Carcharhinus amblyrhynchos (Bleeker, 1856) (Northern KwaZulu-Natal to Red Sea) [2] [6] also recorded as syn. Carcharhinus wheeleri (Garrick, 1982) Java shark, pigeye shark , Carcharhinus amboinensis (Müller and Henle, 1839) (Eastern Cape and Natal) [ 2 ]
Rainbow runners are also one of a number of pelagic fishes that prey on open-ocean species of sea-skaters (Halobates spp.), a type of insects which rest on the surface of the ocean. [26] Rainbow runner themselves are important prey items for a number of larger species, with positively identified predators being Fraser's dolphin ( Lagenodelphis ...