Saturday 25 May
Endangered Species of the Week: Kakapo - the World's Favourite Species!
تعتبر المياه الضحلة، الغنية بكربونات الكالسيوم جنوبي الخليج العربي مثالية لبناء الشعاب المرجانية، وتتشكل الكثير من الشعاب على طول ساحل دولة الإمارات العربية المتحدة، خاصة في إمارة أبو ظبي.
وتمثل الشعاب المرجانية في مياه دولة الإمارات العربية المتحدة موطناً لمجموعة متنوعة من الكائنات البحرية.
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Information on Acropora arabensis is being researched and written and will appear here shortly…
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The African pillow coral is a beautiful coral species with elaborately-shaped skeletal walls and neatly arranged septa that form a fan-like…
Information on Alveopora tizardi is currently being researched and written and will appear here shortly…
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Sea snakes are amongst the most venomous of the world’s snakes, and are highly adapted to life at sea, being the most completely marine of…
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Like other bottom-dwelling shark species, the Arabian carpetshark (Chiloscyllium arabicum) does not require a streamlined body for rapid…
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Information on the areloate grouper is currently being researched and written and will appear here shortly…
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Information on the black-finned melon butterflyfish (Chaetodon melapterus) is being researched and written and will appear here shortly…
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The blacktip reef shark (Carcharhinus melanopterus) is the most commonly encountered species of shark in tropical Indo-Pacific reefs…
The blacktip shark (Carcharhinus limbatus) is a large, stout shark, with a long, pointed snout and small eyes. Its torpedo-shaped body, grey…
The blacktip topeshark (Hypogaleus hyugaensis) is a small, slender hound shark (a shark of the family Triakidae) with a greyish-bronze body…
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Information on the blue-streak cleaner wrasse (Labroides dimidiatus) is being researched and written and will appear here shortly…
The reef-building coral Turbinaria peltata forms colonies of flat, overlapping plates and occasionally vertical columns. A single colony…
Named for its distinctive mouth which undulates like a longbow, this deep-bodied guitarfish is unmistakable. The species has a broad…
Platygyra sinensis is a widespread coral that typically forms large, domed colonies up to a metre or more in diameter. The diameter of its…
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This coral gains its common name from the colony’s meandering, brain-like pattern of brown walls, separated by grey or green depressions…
The colonies of the branched sandpaper coral (Psammocora contigua) grow in a variety of shapes depending on water movements, variously…
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Information on the broomtail wrasse (Cheilinus lunulatus) is currently being researched and written and will appear here shortly…
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Information on the cactus coral is currently being researched and written and will appear here shortly…
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Information on Clark's anemonefish is currently being researched and written and will appear here shortly…
Forming large, irregular-shaped mounds covered by a dense, maze-like network of sinuous ridges and valleys, Leptoria phrygia is a striking…
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With a broad, depressed head, elongated body, and powerful tail fin, the cobia (Rachycentron canadum) is often mistaken for a shark, but it…
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Information on the cocktail wrasse (Pteragogus flagellifer) is being researched and written and will appear here shortly…
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Information on the common parrotfish (Scarus psittacus) is currently being researched and written and will appear here shortly…
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Information on Pavona varians is currently being researched and written and will appear here shortly…
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Information on the crescent-tail wrasse (Thalassoma lunare) is currently being researched and written and will appear here shortly…
The only species in its genus, Anomastraea irregularis forms small, low, mound-like colonies that grow up to about 20 cm in height. In…
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Information on the daisy parrotfish (Chlorurus sordidus) is currently being researched and written and will appear here shortly…
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The robust, elongate body of the duskytail grouper is brownish to purplish-grey in colour and covered with numerous small, yellow, orange or…
Information on Echinopora gemmacea is being researched and written and will appear here shortly…
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Information on Ehrenberg's snapper is currently being researched and written and will appear here shortly…
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The eightbar grouper (Epinephelus octofasciatus) owes its name quite simply to the presence of eight, broad, dark-brown bars that cross its…
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One of the most common species in the Faviidae family, particularly at high latitudes, Favia speciosa typically forms domed colonies that…
Information on the ember parrotfish (Scarus rubroviolaceus) is being researched and written and will appear here shortly…
Information on the emperor angelfish (Pomacanthus imperator) is being researched and written and will appear here shortly…
Information on Leptoseris foliosa is currently being researched and written and will appear here shortly…
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Information on the encrusting pore coral (Montipora aequituberculata) is being researched and written and will appear here shortly…
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An intricate pattern of spots, blotches and bars decorates the robust body of the epaulet grouper. With the exception of the underside, the…
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Information on the false pillow coral is currently being researched and written and will appear here shortly…
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Information on Favia pallida is currently being researched and written and will appear here shortly…
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Information on Favia rotumana is currently being researched and written and will appear here shortly…
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A beautiful bright yellow fish of reefs in the tropical Indian and Pacific Oceans, the five-lined snapper (Lutjanus quinquelineatus) is so…
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The fleshy artichoke coral is a little-known, rare coral described as recently as 1998. The most distinguishing features of this species are…
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Although usually growing as small cushion-shaped or domed colonies, Galaxea fascicularis is also capable of producing massive or columnar…
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Information on Fungia cyclolites is currently being researched and written and will appear here shortly…
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Information on Gardiner's butterflyfish is being researched and written and will appear here shortly…
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Distinguished from other trevally species by its striking colouration, the golden trevally (Gnathanodon speciosus) is beautiful bright…
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Information on Goniopora tenuidens is being researched and written and will appear here shortly…
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The massive and well-known great hammerhead (Sphyrna mokarran) has the most distinctive hammer of its genus. It is particularly wide and…
The Gulf torpedo is an electric ray with a flattened disc-shaped body well suited to its ocean bottom habitat. It is beautifully decorated…
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A widespread but relatively uncommon reef-building species, Favites complanata forms what are known as ‘massive’ colonies, growing in…
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