Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
Opahs are deeply keeled, compressed, discoid fish with conspicuous coloration: the body is a deep red-orange grading to rosy on the belly, with white spots covering the flanks. Both the median and paired fins are a bright vermilion. The large eyes stand out, as well, ringed with golden yellow.
Lampris guttatus, commonly known as the opah, cravo, moonfish, kingfish, and Jerusalem haddock, is a large, colorful, deep-bodied pelagic lampriform fish belonging to the family Lampridae, which comprises the genus Lampris. It is a pelagic fish with a worldwide distribution.
While swimming off a remote Pacific Ocean archipelago in 2013, a diver spotted a “mysterious” and brightly colored fish. He quickly snapped several blurry photographs before it darted away ...
While there, researchers found several brightly colored fish, the study said. The fish matched some available in the aquarium trade but did not appear in scientific records. Taking a closer look ...
the two stripe damsel is a very hardy fish. This fish is perfect for the beginner marine aquarist, as it can tolerate substandard water quality. This fish is highly aggressive, and requires many hiding places. 10 cm (3.9 in) Yellow damsel: Amblyglyphidodon aureus: Yes: 13 cm (5.1 in) Yellow threespot Dascyllus: Dascyllus auripinnis: Yes [49]: 205
The fish was actually a new species, living in the aquarium the entire time. The colorful fish has “very large” eyes and lived in an aquarium for years before disappearing in the wild ...
The new species was found in the western Pacific Ocean, researchers said in a study.
Cirrhilabrus finifenmaa individuals are found at a depth of around 50 meters in warm mesophotic coral ecosystems. [1] Mesophotic coral systems have photosynthetic organisms like algae and coral; they also occur at depths of around 30 to 150 meters in tropical and subtropical regions. [8]