Together with the cuttlefish and the dwarf cuttlefish, squids are among the ten-armed squids, most of which are strictly night-active. Two of their ten arms, which are heavily prolonged and are provided with suction cups only at their thickened end, can be vorgeschleuderted quickly, depending on the type of fish Weiterlesen…
With more than 500 species from over 65 genera, the Wrasses (Labridae) are after the gobies (Gobiidae) the second largest marine fish family. The majority of species can be found a pronounced sexual dimorphism linked with a gorgeous color. It is especially the males showing a true firework of colors Weiterlesen…
The extinction of up to eight meters long and up to ten ton sirenians Manatee by humans only 27 years after their discovery middle of the 18th century. Century the dugong is the only remaining family of the swallow-tailed dugongs (Dugong dugon). In contrast to the four representatives of the Weiterlesen…