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Tortuguero Lagoon
Laguna Tortuguero Natural Reserve is a natural reservoir located between the municipalities of Vega Baja and Manatí in Puerto Rico. The lagoon is one of only two natural reservoirs in the island of Puerto Rico (the other being Joyuda Lagoon), and is home to an ample variety of species. General information Tortuguero Lagoon Nature Reserve is the only freshwater lagoon in Puerto Rico. It contains about 708 million gallons of water. The reserve was designated in 1979 through a program of Coastal Zone Management PR. It is located between the municipalities of Vega Baja and Manatí. It covers approximately 2.43 km2. It is divided into two main parts: in the east and northeast, the Laguna Grande ("Big Lagoon" in English), and in the south, the Laguna Rica. A swamp located northeast of the pond, El Cabo Caribe ("Cape Caribbean" in English), includes one of the most important areas of the reserve as a source of nesting and feeding waterflow ecosystem. Generally, Tortuguero is ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vega Baja, Puerto Rico
Vega Baja (, ) is a Vega Baja barrio-pueblo, town and Municipalities of Puerto Rico, municipality located on the coast of north central Puerto Rico. It is north of Morovis, Puerto Rico, Morovis, east of Manatí, Puerto Rico, Manatí, and west of Vega Alta, Puerto Rico, Vega Alta. Vega Baja is spread over 13 barrios. The population of the municipality was 54,414 at the 2020 United States census, 2020 census. It is part of the San Juan–Caguas–Guaynabo metropolitan area, San Juan–Caguas–Guaynabo metropolitan statistical area. History The name Vega Baja in Spanish language, Spanish means 'lower valley' (Vega Alta, Puerto Rico, Vega Alta meaning 'upper valley'). Historians believe that the name Vega Baja comes from ''La Vega''. Vega is a surname of one of the families involved in the foundation of Vega Baja. It is also believed that the name comes from the region of Spain ''La Vega Baja del Segura''. Additionally, in Caribbean Spanish, a ''vega'' is also a tobacco plantation. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Setophaga Adelaidae
Adelaide's warbler (''Setophaga adelaidae'') is a bird endemic to the archipelago of Puerto Rico belonging to the genus ''Setophaga'' of the family Parulidae. The species is named after Adelaide Swift, daughter of Robert Swift, the person who captured the first specimen. Description The ''S. adelaidae'' complex was originally considered a single species, with three populations occurring in Barbuda, Puerto Rico and St. Lucia. Each of these populations were regarded as a subspecies, ''S.a. subita'', ''S.a. adelaidae'' and ''S.a. delicata'' respectively. These subspecies were later elevated to species rank as the Barbuda warbler (''Setophaga subita''), the St. Lucia warbler (''Setophaga delicata'') and Adelaide's warbler. In 2011, the American Ornithologists' Union reclassified the Parulidae, which resulted in ''D. adelaidae'' being transferred to genus ''Setophaga.'' Adelaide's warbler has gray upperparts with yellow underparts. The species has a yellow line above the eye a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Poecilia
''Poecilia'' is a genus of fishes in the family Poeciliidae of the order Cyprinodontiformes. These livebearers are native to fresh, brackish and salt water in the Americas, and some species in the genus are euryhaline. A few have adapted to living in waters that contain high levels of toxic hydrogen sulfide ()Palacios, Arias-Rodriguez, Plath, Eifert, Lerp, Lamboj, Voelker, & Tobler (2013). The Rediscovery of a Long Described Species Reveals Additional Complexity in Speciation Patterns of Poeciliid Fishes in Sulfide Springs.' PLoS ONE 8(8): e71069. and a population of '' P. mexicana'' lives in caves (other populations of this species are surface-living). Some common and widespread species are often kept as aquarium fish, while other have very small ranges and are seriously threatened. All species in ''Poecilia'' are called mollies except for the Endler's livebearer (''P. wingei'') and the well-known guppy (''P. reticulata'') which have a distinctly different body shape from the r ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Oviparity
Oviparous animals are animals that lay their eggs, with little or no other embryonic development within the mother. This is the reproductive method of most fish, amphibians, most reptiles, and all pterosaurs, dinosaurs (including birds), and monotremes. In traditional usage, most insects (one being ''Culex pipiens'', or the common house mosquito), molluscs, and arachnids are also described as oviparous. Modes of reproduction The traditional modes of reproduction include oviparity, taken to be the ancestral condition, traditionally where either unfertilised oocytes or fertilised eggs are spawned, and viviparity traditionally including any mechanism where young are born live, or where the development of the young is supported by either parent in or on any part of their body. However, the biologist Thierry Lodé recently divided the traditional category of oviparous reproduction into two modes that he named ovuliparity and (true) oviparity respectively. He distinguished the tw ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Common Snook
The common snook (''Centropomus undecimalis'') is a species of Seawater, marine fish in the family (biology), family Centropomidae of the order (biology), order Perciformes. The common snook is also known as the sergeant fish or robalo. It was originally assigned to the Sciaenidae, sciaenid genus ''Sciaena;'' ''Sciaena undecimradiatus'' and ''Centropomus undecimradiatus'' are obsolete synonyms for the species. One of the largest Centropomidae, snooks, ''C. undecimalis'' grows to a maximum overall length of , but the common length is . The IGFA world record is 24.32 kg (53 lb 10 oz) caught in Parismina Ranch, Costa Rica, by Rafael Montalvo. Of typical centropomid form, it possesses drab coloration except for a distinctive black lateral line. It can also have bright yellow pelvic and caudal fins, especially during spawn. General ecology Reproductive ecology The common snook is a protandric hermaphrodite fish species. Its spawning season appears to span from April to Oc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tarpon
Tarpons are fish of the genus ''Megalops''. They are the only members of the family Megalopidae. Of the two species, one (''M. atlanticus'') is native to the Atlantic, and the other (''M. cyprinoides'') to the Indo-Pacific Oceans. Species and habitats The two species of tarpons are ''M. atlanticus'' (Atlantic tarpon) and ''M. cyprinoides'' (Indo-Pacific tarpon). ''M. atlanticus'' is found on the western Atlantic coast from Virginia to Brazil, throughout the Caribbean and the coast of the Gulf of Mexico. Tarpons are also found along the eastern Atlantic coast from Senegal to South Angola." Megalops atlanticus", www.fishbase.org, 11 February 2010. ''M. cyprinoides'' is found along the eastern African coast, throughout Southeast Asia, Japan, Tahiti, and Australia. Both species are found in both marine and freshwater habitats, usually ascending rivers to access freshwater marshes." Megalops cyprinoides", www.fishbase.org, 11 February 2010. They are able to survive in brackis ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fulica Caribaea
The American coot (''Fulica americana''), also known as a mud hen or pouldeau, is a bird of the family Rallidae. Though commonly mistaken for ducks, American coots are only distantly related to ducks, belonging to a separate order. Unlike the webbed feet of ducks, coots have broad, lobed scales on their lower legs and toes that fold back with each step which facilitates walking on dry land. Coots live near water, typically inhabiting wetlands and open water bodies in North America. Groups of coots are called covers or rafts. The oldest known coot lived to be 22 years old. The American coot is a migratory bird that occupies most of North America. It lives in the Pacific and southwestern United States and Mexico year-round and occupies more northeastern regions during the summer breeding season. In the winter they can be found as far south as Panama. Coots generally build floating nests and lay 8–12 eggs per clutch. Females and males have similar appearances, but they can be di ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Oxyura Jamaicensis
The ruddy duck (''Oxyura jamaicensis'') is a duck from North America and one of the stiff-tailed ducks. The genus name is derived from Ancient Greek ''oxus'', "sharp", and ''oura'', "tail", and ''jamaicensis'' is "from Jamaica". Taxonomy The ruddy duck was formally described in 1789 by the German naturalist Johann Friedrich Gmelin in his revised and expanded edition of Carl Linnaeus's ''Systema Naturae''. He placed it with the other ducks, geese and swans in the genus ''Anas'' and coined the binomial name ''Anas jamaicensis''. Gmelin based his description on the "Jamaica shoveler" that had been described in 1785 by the English ornithologist John Latham from a specimen that he had received from Jamaica. The ruddy duck is now placed with five other species in the genus '' Oxyura'' that was introduced in 1828 by the French naturalist Charles Lucien Bonaparte. The genus name is derived from Ancient Greek ''oxus'', meaning "sharp", and ''oura'' meaning "tail". The specific epithet ' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Endemic
Endemism is the state of a species being found in a single defined geographic location, such as an island, state, nation, country or other defined zone; organisms that are indigenous to a place are not endemic to it if they are also found elsewhere. For example, the Cape sugarbird is found exclusively in southwestern South Africa and is therefore said to be ''endemic'' to that particular part of the world. An endemic species can be also be referred to as an ''endemism'' or in scientific literature as an ''endemite''. For example '' Cytisus aeolicus'' is an endemite of the Italian flora. '' Adzharia renschi'' was once believed to be an endemite of the Caucasus, but it was later discovered to be a non-indigenous species from South America belonging to a different genus. The extreme opposite of an endemic species is one with a cosmopolitan distribution, having a global or widespread range. A rare alternative term for a species that is endemic is "precinctive", which applies to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Schoepfia Arenaria
''Schoepfia arenaria'' is an extremely rare species of hemiparasitic flowering plant in the Schoepfiaceae family. It grows as a small, multi-trunked tree. It is endemic to Puerto Rico, where it is found growing along the northern coast. A local Spanish vernacular name recorded for this tree is ''araña'' ('spider'). It has no common name in English. Taxonomy ''Schoepfia arenaria'' was first collected near the small town of Santurce in 1899, immediately after the US had conquered Puerto Rico from the Spain and renamed the island Porto Rico. It grew here amongst other shrubs atop the higher sand dunes along the beach -although not stated as such, the derivation of the specific epithet is thus likely derived from the Latin word ''arena'', meaning 'sand'. There were three American plant collectors busy on the same beach that day, Amos Arthur Heller and his wife, Emily Gertrude, sent by the New York Botanical Gardens, and Charles Frederick Millspaugh from the Field Museum of Natural H ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Utricularia Subulata
''Utricularia subulata'', the zigzag bladderwort, is a small annual plant, annual, terrestrial carnivorous plant that belongs to the genus ''Utricularia'' (family Lentibulariaceae). It is the most widely distributed species in the genus, being almost pantropical.Taylor, Peter. (1989). ''The genus Utricularia - a taxonomic monograph''. Kew Bulletin Additional Series XIV: London. It is native to the Northern Territory found in the Darwin Coastal, Tiwi Island and Cobourg Peninsula regions. See also * List of Utricularia species, List of ''Utricularia'' species References External links ''Utricularia subulata'' in Brunken, U., Schmidt, M., Dressler, S., Janssen, T., Thiombiano, A. & Zizka, G. 2008. West African plants - A Photo Guide. www.westafricanplants.senckenberg.de. Carnivorous plants of Africa Carnivorous plants of Asia Carnivorous plants of Central America Carnivorous plants of Europe Carnivorous plants of North America Carnivorous plants of South America Utric ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Drosera Capillaris
''Drosera capillaris'', the pink or spathulate-leaved sundew (not to be confused with ''Drosera spatulata''), is a small carnivorous plant of the family Droseraceae in the genus ''Sundew, Drosera''. They are frequently found in wet pine flatwoods and bogs of the southeastern United States, ranging from eastern Texas east to Florida and north to Virginia, as well as in some areas of the Caribbean. They thrive in moist, acidic soil. ''D. capillaris'' is a small plant, usually ranging from 2 to 4 cm in diameter, but in wet habitat (ecology), habitats it has been known to grow up to 7 cm. In strong sun the entire plant appears red with round, spoon-shaped leaf blades sporting numerous tentacles. In normal light, the leaves are lime-green and the tentacles red. The leaves are arranged in a rosette and generally lie flat on the ground. Some individuals of this species act as Annual plant, annuals and some as Perennial plant, perennials. Germination occurs throughout the fall ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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