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Gillellus Inescatus
''Gillellus inescatus'', the flagfin stargazer,Williams, J.T., 2002 [ref. 26522''Three new species of blennioid shore fishes discovered at Navassa Island, Caribbean Sea.''Aqua, Journal of Ichthyology and Aquatic Biology v. 6 (no. 1): 11-16. is a species of tropical sand stargazer native to the Caribbean sea. Etymology The specific epithet "''inescatus''" is derived from the Latin word "''inescare''" (to bait). It refers to the structure at the back of the head and front of the spine, shaped like an anglerfish's esca, which Williams theorizes may be used as bait for luring prey, in a style similar to anglerfish, or as a means to attract potential mates. The species' common name, "flagfin stargazer" refers to the structure's resemblance to a small flag atop the blenny's spine. Description Based on the single known specimen, ''Gillellus inescatus'' can reach a length of . Its body is elongate and compressed, primarily creamy-white, with eight reddish-brown saddles and blue chromat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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Gillellus Uranidea
''Gillellus'' is a genus of sand stargazers, found in the eastern central Pacific Ocean and western central Atlantic Ocean. Species There are currently 10 recognized species in this genus: * ''Gillellus arenicola'' C. H. Gilbert, 1890 (Sandy stargazer) * ''Gillellus chathamensis'' C. E. Dawson, 1977 (Cocos stargazer) * ''Gillellus greyae'' Kanazawa, 1952 (Arrow stargazer) * ''Gillellus healae'' C. E. Dawson, 1982 (Masked stargazer) * ''Gillellus inescatus''_Jeffrey_T._Williams.html" ;"title="ef. 26522''Three new species of blennioid shore fishes discovered at Navassa Island, Caribbean Sea.''Aqua, Journal of Ichthyology and Aquatic Biology v. 6 (no. 1): 11-16. is a ...'' Jeffrey T. Williams">J. T. Williams, 2002 * ''Gillellus jacksoni'' C. E. Dawson, 1982 * ''Gillellus ornatus'' C. H. Gilbert, 1892 (Ornate stargazer) * ''Gillellus searcheri'' C. E. Dawson, 1977 (Searcher stargazer) * ''Gillellus semicinctus'' C. H. Gilbert, 1890 (Half-banded stargazer) * ''Gillellus uranide ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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Fish are aquatic, craniate, gill-bearing animals that lack limbs with digits. Included in this definition are the living hagfish, lampreys, and cartilaginous and bony fish as well as various extinct related groups. Approximately 95% of living fish species are ray-finned fish, belonging to the class Actinopterygii, with around 99% of those being teleosts. The earliest organisms that can be classified as fish were soft-bodied chordates that first appeared during the Cambrian period. Although they lacked a true spine, they possessed notochords which allowed them to be more agile than their invertebrate counterparts. Fish would continue to evolve through the Paleozoic era, diversifying into a wide variety of forms. Many fish of the Paleozoic developed external armor that protected them from predators. The first fish with jaws appeared in the Silurian period, after which many (such as sharks) became formidable marine predators rather than just the prey of arthropods. Most fis ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gillellus
''Gillellus'' is a genus of sand stargazers, found in the eastern central Pacific Ocean and western central Atlantic Ocean. Species There are currently 10 recognized species in this genus: * ''Gillellus arenicola'' C. H. Gilbert, 1890 (Sandy stargazer) * ''Gillellus chathamensis'' C. E. Dawson, 1977 (Cocos stargazer) * ''Gillellus greyae'' Kanazawa, 1952 (Arrow stargazer) * ''Gillellus healae'' C. E. Dawson, 1982 (Masked stargazer) * ''Gillellus inescatus''_Jeffrey_T._Williams.html" ;"title="ef. 26522''Three new species of blennioid shore fishes discovered at Navassa Island, Caribbean Sea.''Aqua, Journal of Ichthyology and Aquatic Biology v. 6 (no. 1): 11-16. is a ...'' Jeffrey T. Williams">J. T. Williams, 2002 * ''Gillellus jacksoni'' C. E. Dawson, 1982 * ''Gillellus ornatus'' C. H. Gilbert, 1892 (Ornate stargazer) * ''Gillellus searcheri'' C. E. Dawson, 1977 (Searcher stargazer) * ''Gillellus semicinctus'' C. H. Gilbert, 1890 (Half-banded stargazer) * ''Gillellus uranide ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Navassa Island
Navassa Island (; ht, Lanavaz; french: l'île de la Navasse, sometimes ) is a small uninhabited island in the Caribbean Sea. Located northeast of Jamaica, south of Cuba, and west of Jérémie on the Tiburon Peninsula of Haiti, it is subject to an ongoing territorial dispute between Haiti and the United States, which administers the island through the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. The U.S. has claimed the island, as an appurtenance, since 1857, based on the Guano Islands Act of 1856. Haiti's claim over Navassa goes back to the Treaty of Ryswick in 1697 that established French possessions on mainland Hispaniola from Spain, as well as other specifically named nearby islands. However, there was no mention of Navassa in the treaty detailing terms. Haiti's 1801 constitution claimed several nearby islands by name, among which Navassa was not listed, but also laid claim to "other adjacent islands", which Haiti maintains included Navassa. The U.S. claim to the island, first made in 1 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lulu Bay
Lulu Town, also known as Lulu Ville, is a now uninhabited, former settlement on Navassa Island, claimed by both the United States and neighbouring Haiti, in the Windward Passage. Overview Navassa Island was claimed for the United States on September 19, 1857, by Peter Duncan, an American sea captain, under the Guano Islands Act of August 18, 1856. The modest settlement was created to house both mine workers and supervisors whose goal was the rich deposits of guano found on Navassa. This resource, gathered mainly from the interior of the island, was stored in Lulu Town for later shipment to the United States. Mining operations on Navassa Island were halted and the island evacuated in 1899 during the Spanish–American War , partof = the Philippine Revolution, the decolonization of the Americas, and the Cuban War of Independence , image = Collage infobox for Spanish-American War.jpg , image_size = 300px , caption = (clock .... I ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Holotype
A holotype is a single physical example (or illustration) of an organism, known to have been used when the species (or lower-ranked taxon) was formally described. It is either the single such physical example (or illustration) or one of several examples, but explicitly designated as the holotype. Under the International Code of Zoological Nomenclature (ICZN), a holotype is one of several kinds of name-bearing types. In the International Code of Nomenclature for algae, fungi, and plants (ICN) and ICZN, the definitions of types are similar in intent but not identical in terminology or underlying concept. For example, the holotype for the butterfly '' Plebejus idas longinus'' is a preserved specimen of that subspecies, held by the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard University. In botany, an isotype is a duplicate of the holotype, where holotype and isotypes are often pieces from the same individual plant or samples from the same gathering. A holotype is not necessarily "typ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gillellus Jacksoni
''Gillellus jacksoni'' is a species of sand stargazer native to the Antilles where it can be found at depths of from . It can reach a maximum length of SL. The specific name Specific name may refer to: * in Database management systems, a system-assigned name that is unique within a particular database In taxonomy, either of these two meanings, each with its own set of rules: * Specific name (botany), the two-part (bino ... honours Felix N. Jackson who was a Museum Technician at the Gulf Coast Research Laboratory in Ocean Springs, Mississippi. References jacksoni Fish described in 1982 Taxa named by Charles Eric Dawson {{Rayfinned-fish-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gillellus Healae
''Gillellus healae'', the masked stargazer, is a species of sand stargazer native to the Atlantic and Gulf coasts of the United States from South Carolina to the Florida Keys as well as around Aruba where it can be found on sandy bottoms at depths of from . It is an ambush predator, burying itself nearly completely in the sand and waiting for prey to happen by. This species can reach a length of TL. The specific name Specific name may refer to: * in Database management systems, a system-assigned name that is unique within a particular database In taxonomy, either of these two meanings, each with its own set of rules: * Specific name (botany), the two-part (bino ... honours Elizabeth Heal who was Technical Secretary at the Gulf Coast Research Laboratory in Ocean Springs, Mississippi. References healae Fish described in 1982 Taxa named by Charles Eric Dawson {{Rayfinned-fish-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chromatophore
Chromatophores are cells that produce color, of which many types are Biological pigment, pigment-containing cells, or groups of cells, found in a wide range of animals including amphibians, fish, reptiles, crustaceans and cephalopods. Mammals and birds, in contrast, have a class of cells called melanocytes for animal coloration, coloration. Chromatophores are largely responsible for generating skin and eye color, eye colour in ectothermic animals and are generated in the neural crest during embryonic development. Mature chromatophores are grouped into subclasses based on their colour (more properly "hue") under white light: xanthophores (yellow), erythrophores (red), iridophores (reflective / iridescence, iridescent), leucophores (white), melanophores (black/brown), and cyanophores (blue). While most chromatophores contain pigments that absorb specific wavelengths of light, the color of leucophores and iridophores is produced by their respective scattering and optical interference ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tropical
The tropics are the regions of Earth surrounding the Equator. They are defined in latitude by the Tropic of Cancer in the Northern Hemisphere at N and the Tropic of Capricorn in the Southern Hemisphere at S. The tropics are also referred to as the tropical zone and the torrid zone (see geographical zone). In terms of climate, the tropics receive sunlight that is more direct than the rest of Earth and are generally hotter and wetter as they aren't affected as much by the solar seasons. The word "tropical" sometimes refers to this sort of climate in the zone rather than to the geographical zone itself. The tropical zone includes deserts and snow-capped mountains, which are not tropical in the climatic sense. The tropics are distinguished from the other climatic and biomatic regions of Earth, which are the middle latitudes and the polar regions on either side of the equatorial zone. The tropics constitute 40% of Earth's surface area and contain 36% of Earth's landmass. , the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Blennioidei
Blenny (from the Greek and , mucus, slime) is a common name for many types of fish, including several families of percomorph marine, brackish, and some freshwater fish sharing similar morphology and behaviour. Six families are considered "true blennies", grouped under the order Blenniiformes; its members are referred to as blenniiformids. About 151 genera and nearly 900 species have been described within the order. The order was formerly classified as a suborder of the Perciformes but the 5th Edition of '' Fishes of the World'' divided the Perciformes into a number of new orders and the Blenniiformes were placed in the percomorph clade Ovalentaria alongside the such taxa as Cichliformes, Mugiliformes and Gobiesociformes. Families The six "true blenny" families are: * Blenniidae Rafinesque, 1810 - combtooth blennies, including the sabre-toothed blennies * Chaenopsidae Gill, 1865 - pikeblennies, tubeblennies and flagblennies * Clinidae Swainson, 1839 - clinids, i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
