Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
The anchovy is a significant food source for almost every predatory fish in its environment, including the California halibut, rock fish, yellowtail, shark, chinook, and coho salmon. It is also extremely important to marine mammals and birds; for example, breeding success of California brown pelicans [ 13 ] and elegant terns is strongly ...
The Californian anchovy or northern anchovy (Engraulis mordax) is a species of anchovy found in the Eastern Pacific Ocean, ranging from Mexico to British Columbia. [2] It is a small, Clupeoid fish with a large mouth and a long, laterally compressed body, which strongly resembles the European Anchovy (Engraulis encrasicolus) with only slight differences in girth and fin position.
A marine coastal ecosystem is a marine ecosystem which occurs where the land meets the ocean. Worldwide there is about 620,000 kilometres (390,000 mi) of coastline. Coastal habitats extend to the margins of the continental shelves, occupying about 7 percent of the ocean surface area.
San Antonio Bay is a bay on the Texas Gulf Coast situated between Matagorda and Aransas Bay.It consists mainly of the combined waters of the San Antonio and Guadalupe rivers, and is located at the mouth of the Guadalupe River, about 55 miles (89 km) northeast of Corpus Christi and 130 miles (209 km) southeast of San Antonio.
A marine iguana, Amblyrhynchus cristatus, on a wharf at Santa Cruz Island, Galapagos. Seashore wildlife habitats exist from the Tropics to the Arctic and Antarctic.Seashores and beaches provide varied habitats in different parts of the world, and even within the same beach.
The cranes in Louisiana died, but the number of endangered whoopers in Texas rose from near extinction to around 550 in Texas. They make up the last wild population in the world.
The dorsal fin is located directly above the anal fin origin. [5] The adult male is generally about 6 centimeters long, with a maximum length of 10 [4] to 11 centimeters. [1] It has 14 to 16 rays in its dorsal fin, 24 to 30 in its anal fin, and 11 to 12 in the pectoral. [6] It may live more than three years. [1]
Near Gonzales, it flows into the Guadalupe River after a total of 75 miles (121 km). This course is the first section of the Texas Water Safari . The old Rio Vista Dam , now demolished: The area was transformed into three rapids, making it a very popular recreational area