fish id project
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This is a book on 125 different freshwater and marine fish and invertabrates. It contains the animals classification and basic knowledge on each species.TRANSCRIPT
Fish ID Project
By: Megan Heath
Title: Marine Species #: 1
Common Name: Axelrod’s Clown Benny
Scientific Name: Ecsenius axelrodi
Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii Order: Perciformes
Family: Blenniidae
Geography / Habitat: In and around coral reefs at a depth of 3-36 meters. Lives in topical waters in
the Western Central Pacific ocean. They are found in and around the Admiralty Islands, Papua New
Guinea, and Solomon Islands. Also found around the Philippines Islands.
Life Strategy:
Females lay eggs that are then externally fertilized by males. The eggs are demersal and stick to the
reefs.
Food / Feed Strategy:
Carnivorous to smaller fish, but also frequently eat algae or other small plants growing on the reefs.
Body Form or Style: Taeniform
Swim / Locomotion Style: Amiiform
Mouth Position: Terminal
Citation:
Search FishBase. Web. 29 Oct. 2011. <http://www.fishbase.org/search.php>.
Name, Common. "Marine Fish Species." AC Tropical Fish & Aquarium. Web. 29 Oct. 2011.
<http://www.aquaticcommunity.com/marinefish/>.
Title: Marine Species #: 2
Common Name: Bigeye Cardinal fish
Scientific Name: Nectamia bandanensis
Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii Order: Perciformes
Family: Epigonidae
Geography / Habitat: Western and Eastern Indian Ocean, Northwest, Western Central and Eastern
Central Pacific ocean on outer coral reef slopes.
Life Strategy: Egg layers, with eggs clumping together in clusters, secured by parents to rocks or
coral.
Food / Feed Strategy: They eat small fishes, zoobenthos, benth crustaceans and mobile invertebrates.
Body Form or Style: Compressiform
Swim / Locomotion Style: Carangiform
Mouth Position: Terminal
Citation:
Search FishBase. Web. 29 Oct. 2011. <http://www.fishbase.org/search.php>.
Name, Common. "Marine Fish Species." AC Tropical Fish & Aquarium. Web. 29 Oct. 2011.
<http://www.aquaticcommunity.com/marinefish/>.
Title: Marine Species #: 3
Common Name: Bignose Unicorn Fish
Scientific Name: Naso vlamingii
Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii Order: Perciformes
Family: Acanthuridae
Geography / Habitat:
Western and Eastern Indian Ocean, Western Central and Eastern Central Pacific Ocean in coral reefs.
Life Strategy: Do not breed very often, but lay eggs that are externally fertilized by the males.
Food / Feed Strategy: Feed on zooplankton, small crustaceans, and algae.
Body Form or Style: Globiform
Swim / Locomotion Style: Ostraciiform
Mouth Position: Terminal
Citation:
Search FishBase. Web. 29 Oct. 2011. <http://www.fishbase.org/search.php>.
Name, Common. "Marine Fish Species." AC Tropical Fish & Aquarium. Web. 29 Oct. 2011.
<http://www.aquaticcommunity.com/marinefish/>.
Title: Marine Species #: 4
Common Name: Blackcap Gramma
Scientific Name: Gramma melacara
Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii Order: Perciformes
Family: Grammatidae
Geography / Habitat: The Blackcap Gramma inhabits the Western Central Atlantic, where it can be
found in the West Indies and Central America. It is a deep water species found from 11 down to 60
meters. Its typically found along vertical cliffs and drop-offs beyond outer reefs.
Life Strategy: Females will lay 10-50 eggs in a nest made by the male from fibrous material like
algae. The male then comes by and fertilize the eggs.
Food / Feed Strategy: Their diet is manly plankton, krill, and zooplankton, but will accasionally eat
smaller crustaceans and shrimp.
Body Form or Style: Taeniform
Swim / Locomotion Style: Labriform
Mouth Position: Terminal
Citation:
Search FishBase. Web. 29 Oct. 2011. <http://www.fishbase.org/search.php>.
Name, Common. "Marine Fish Species." AC Tropical Fish & Aquarium. Web. 29 Oct. 2011.
<http://www.aquaticcommunity.com/marinefish/>.
Title: Marine Species #: 5
Common Name: Brown Sturgeon Fish
Scientific Name: Acanthurus nigrofuscus
Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii Order: Perciformes
Family: Acanthuridae
Geography / Habitat: Southeast Atlantic, Western and Eastern Indian Ocean, Northwest, Western
Central, Eastern Central and Southwest Pacific in depths between 0-25 meters. Found on hard
substrates of shallow lagoon and seaward reefs.
Life Strategy: Form spawning aggregations where females lay up to 60 eggs and males swim over
and fertilize them.
Food / Feed Strategy: They eat benthic algae, weeds and phytoplankton. Prefer to feed in large schools of same species.
Body Form or Style: Globiform
Swim / Locomotion Style: Carangiform
Mouth Position: Terminal
Citation:
Search FishBase. Web. 29 Oct. 2011. <http://www.fishbase.org/search.php>.
Name, Common. "Marine Fish Species." AC Tropical Fish & Aquarium. Web. 29 Oct. 2011.
<http://www.aquaticcommunity.com/marinefish/>.
Title: Marine Species #: 6
Common Name: Blue Angelfish
Scientific Name: Holocanthus bermudensis
Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii Order: Perciformes
Family: Pomacanthidae
Geography / Habitat:
They are found in the western Atlantic part of from Bermuda, the Bahamas and Florida to the Gulf of
Mexico, and tends to stay near rocks, coral, and sponges.
Life Strategy:
The female can release from 25 to 75 thousand eggs each day, the eggs are also buoyant. The male
externally fertilizes them.
Food / Feed Strategy:
They feed primarily on sponges, but also feeds on tunicates, jellyfish, and corals as well as plankton
and algae.
Body Form or Style: Globiform
Swim / Locomotion Style: Carangiform
Mouth Position: Terminal
Citation:
Search FishBase. Web. 29 Oct. 2011. <http://www.fishbase.org/search.php>.
Name, Common. "Marine Fish Species." AC Tropical Fish & Aquarium. Web. 29 Oct. 2011.
<http://www.aquaticcommunity.com/marinefish/>.
