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NOAA Coral Reef Conservation Program, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, U.S. Department of Commerce
Fishes in the orders Clupeiformes (herrings and herring-like fishes), and Elopiformes (ladyfishes and tarpons) whose flesh might contain a toxin, clupeotoxin, by ingesting certain dinoflagellates which contain the toxin.
Industry:Natural environment
One of many genes of small effect that influence the development of a quantitative trait; results in continuous variation and in quantitative inheritance.
Industry:Natural environment
Sandy areas found in depressions and gullies in a coral reef, or between patch reefs, or in deeper areas below or beyond the reef. Seemingly near barren during the day, at night sand flats teem with biological activity; also a sandy tidal flat barren of vegetation. A tidal flat is an extensive, nearly horizontal, marshy or barren tract of land that is alternately covered and uncovered by the tide. It consists of unconsolidated sediment (mostly mud and sand).
Industry:Natural environment
The cultivation of marine organisms under controlled conditions; a synonym for marine aquaculture.
Industry:Natural environment
The number or amount of something, e.g., the number of organisms per unit of habitat space or number of individuals in a stock or a population.
Industry:Natural environment
The study of everything that happens to an organism’s body after it dies; includes probable cause and manner of death, movement of the body, chemical and physical alteration, burial, decomposition, diagenesis and fossilization.
Industry:Natural environment
A bony fish in the family Holocentridae. Squirrelfishes are small, brightly colored spiny-finned fishes, commonly found living on coral reefs. Most squirrelfishes are reddish in color mixed with silver and white. All species have large eyes. During the day they are usually found hiding in crevices or beneath ledges. They are crepuscular species, most active at low light levels and at night.
Industry:Natural environment
A division of geologic time next shorter than a period. Example: the Pleistocene epoch is in the Quaternary period.
Industry:Natural environment
