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Rhanterium epapposum. Over 400 species of wild plant have been recorded in Kuwait. The arfaj is the national flower of Kuwait. [3] Desert plants are typically coarse grasses and salt-tolerant shrubs which tend to be low growing and often spiny; one of the most common plants is Rhanterium epapposum, known locally as arfaj, which is used for forage by camels and sheep.
The sharpnose guitarfish also known as the granulated guitarfish (Glaucostegus granulatus) is a species of ray in the Glaucostegidae family. They belong to the subclass Elsamobranchii which are cartilaginous fish that include sharks, rays, and skates as shown in their morphology. They have a flattened ray-like body and shark-like elongated ...
Catalog of Fishes is a comprehensive on-line database and reference work on the scientific names of fish species and genera. It is global in its scope and is hosted by the California Academy of Sciences. It has been compiled and is continuously updated by the curator emeritus of the CAS fish collection, William N. Eschmeyer.
Pampus argenteus, the silver pomfret or white pomfret (or pompano to avoid confusion with true pomfrets of the genus Bramidae), is a species of butterfish that lives in the Indo-West Pacific, spanning the coastal waters of the Middle East, Eastern Africa, South Asia, Southeast Asia, and East Asia. [2]
Common names of fish can refer to a single species; to an entire group of species, such as a genus or family; or to multiple unrelated species or groups. Ambiguous common names are accompanied by their possible meanings. Scientific names for individual species and higher taxa are included in parentheses.
The name "hamour" or "hammour" (Arabic: هَامُّوْر, romanized: hāmmūr) [1] is used to describe a number of fish, mainly the goldspotted rockcod (Epinephelus coioides) and brown spotted reef cod (Epinephelus chlorostigma). At the same time, it is the name given to a variety of closely related fish species in the Persian Gulf.
The dorab wolf-herring (Chirocentrus dorab) is a fish species from the genus Chirocentrus of the family Chirocentridae. [3] It is a coastal fish , silvery below and bright blue above. It is found in both marine and brackish or estuarine waters, feeding on smaller fish and possibly crustaceans. [ 4 ]
Digging deep burrows in soft sediments allows the fish to thermoregulate, [14] avoid marine predators during the high tide when the fish and burrow are submerged, [15] and lay their eggs. [16] When the burrow is submerged, several mudskipper species maintain an air pocket inside it, which allows them to breathe in conditions of very low oxygen ...