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    Aquatics Gallery > Weird & Wonderful Zone

    SPECIE NAME:Atelomycterus marmoratus

    COMMON NAME OF THE SPECIE: Coral Cat Shark

    LOCATION: Coral Cat Shark are found across the Indo-West Pacific, from Pakistan to New Guinea. Its range extends as far north as the Ryukyu Islands.

    HABITAT: Shallow coral reefs. An inshore species, the coral catshark inhabits coral reefs and live in crevices and holes in the reef.

    SIZE: UPTO: 70 CM. ; 0.5 KG.

    DIET: Small, bottom-living invertebrates and bony fishes

    FACT: Oviparous with single egg-case laid per oviduct. Embryos feed solely on yolk.Utilized in human consumption.

    SPECIE NAME:Dardanus megistos

    COMMON NAME OF THE SPECIE: Spotted Hermit Crab

    LOCATION: Living in reefs in the Indo-Pacific region from Africa to the South China Sea and Hawaii.

    HABITAT: These crabs spend most of their life underwater as aquatic animals, live in varying depths of saltwater from shallow reefs and shorelines to deep sea bottoms and rarely leave for land.

    SIZE: UPTO: 8 CM. ; 0.01 KG.

    DIET: Opportunistic omnivours, reported to feed on holothurians.

    FACT: Unlike true crabs, if a hermit crab gets sick of its shell, it can move out. In fact, they have to change shells as they grow. While gastropods like whelks, conch and other snails make their own shells, hermit crabs seek shelter in the shells of gastropods. Hermit crabs can commonly be found inhabiting the empty shells of animals such as periwinkles, whelks and moon snails. They usually don't steal shells that are already occupied. Instead, they'll search for vacant shells.

    SPECIE NAME:Panulirus ornatus

    COMMON NAME OF THE SPECIE: Tropical Rock Lobster

    LOCATION: This species is known from the Indo-West Pacific. It ranges from Natal in South Africa, along the coast of East Africa and the Red Sea, to southern Japan, the Solomon Islands, Papua New Guinea, Australia (Northern Territory south to New South Wales), New Caledonia and Fiji .

    HABITAT: This species is known from slightly turbid coastal waters, sandy and muddy substrates, rocky and coral reefs; most commonly to depths of 8 m, though there are a few records documenting it to 50 m

    SIZE: UPTO : 50 CM 0.5 KG.

    DIET: The ornate spiny lobster eats snails, clams, crabs, and sea urchins. It is also a scavenger, meaning that it will sometimes eat dead things, like fish, that it finds on the floor of the reef. Since it eats other animals, it is a carnivore.

    FACT: The ornate spiny lobster does not have big front claws, but it does have long spines covering much of its body and its antennae. Its front two antennae can grow up to 2 feet (61 cm) long, and it uses them to sniff out its prey.

    SPECIE NAME:Asteroidea

    COMMON NAME OF THE SPECIE: Starfish

    LOCATION: Starfish species inhabit all of the world's oceans.

    HABITAT: Mainly a marine group, asteroids are found in all the oceans. Except for a few species which inhabit brackish waters, asteroideas are benthic organisms found in marine environments.

    SIZE: UPTO:2 CM 0.8Kg

    DIET: Asteroideas are mainly scavengers and carnivores. In many areas where they are found they are high level predators. Asteroideas feed on slow moving prey and other invertebrates.

    FACT: Although they are named "starfish", they are not related to fish at all. Starfish belong to the group of marine invertebrates which also include sea cucumber, sea urchin and sand dollar.

    SPECIE NAME:Abudefduf vaigiensis

    COMMON NAME OF THE SPECIE: Indo Pacific Sergant

    LOCATION: Abudefduf vaigiensis is widely distributed in the Indo-Pacific: Red Sea and eastern Africa to the Line and Tuamotu islands, north to southern Japan, and south to Australia and Hawaiian Islands.

    HABITAT: Abudefduf vaigiensis inhabits the upper edge of outer reef slopes and inshore rocky reefs at depths of 1-15 m, while the juveniles of this species associate with drifting seaweed.

    SIZE: UPTO : 20CM 0.2 KG.

    DIET: The Sergeant Major Damsels are omnivores, In the wild they will eat all sorts of foods including small fish, fish eggs, various life stages of invertebrates, many types of algae, zoanthids

    FACT: Males turn more bluish during spawning.They build nests on rocks or coral ledges.Then, females lay their eggs in the nests and the male fertilizes them. Males guard and aerate the eggs until they hatch.

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