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Tripneustes ventricosus, commonly called the West Indian sea egg or white sea urchin, is a species of sea urchin. It is common in the Caribbean Sea , the Bahamas and Florida and may be found at depths of less than 10 metres (33 ft).
They have pelagic eggs and larvae. [10] Females lure prey using the illicium and esca. The males use their highly developed sensory organs to actively search for females which they attach themselves to using the denticular teeth on the tips of the jaws and becoming sexual parasites, fusing their tissue and blood vessels. [12]
The white sucker is a long, round-bodied fish with a dark green, grey, copper, brown, or black back and sides and a light underbelly. The fish also has typical features of primitive Cypriniformes fishes, such as a homocercal tail, cycloid scales, and dorsal, pectoral, and pelvic fin rays. [5]
It has an olive-brown back with light silvery sides and underside and its length is generally between 9 and 19 inches (23 and 48 cm). They are bottom feeders, feeding mostly on invertebrates, such as crustaceans, insect larvae, and fish eggs. Some other fish species, like white sucker in turn eat their eggs.
The larvae are similar in overall form to the related gargoyle cusk, but have elongated 3rd, 4th, and 5th pectoral-fin rays. [8] The bony-eared assfish is by some sources believed to have the smallest brain-to-body weight ratio of any vertebrate. [9] [dubious – discuss]
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Cichlasoma bimaculatum is a generalist omnivore with scavenger like qualities, consuming small crustaceans and insect larvae in addition to small fishes. The black acara provide more competition for the native sunfish within spawning areas and have the ability to impact both invertebrate and plant communities through predation. [3]
Has Halloween come early? Monstrous deep sea angler fish have washed up on the shores of a park in California