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Male banded tulip snails will squirt water to create vibrations in the water to attract females. These snails have marbled shells with purple-brown spiral bands. They prey on other invertebrates and ...

These fish stick to fairly shallow environments, only swimming to a maximum depth of 162 feet (50 meters). Blue spotted rock cod are red-brown in color with small turquoise dots covering their entire ...

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The Florida Keys BleachWatch program is designed to train and coordinate volunteers who regularly report on the occurrence, or absence, of coral bleaching, as well as basic environmental conditions ...

The lined seahorse can be found in coastal communities of the Gulf of Mexico and the Atlantic coast of North and South America. They stay at depths anywhere from 2 - 230 feet (.5 - 70 meters) in ...

Nurse sharks are mostly nocturnal, meaning they sleep during the day and hunt at night. Nurse sharks hang out on the ocean floor, hiding in the sand and preying on any bottom dwelling creatures that ...

Unlike most other species, female clownfish lay their eggs before the male fertilizes them. Clownfish can grow to be around 4.3 inches long (11 centimeters), with an average weight of 7.06 ounces (200 ...

Adult rock beauties usually form long lasting pairs. The rock beauty is the smallest member of the angelfish found in the Atlantic, reaching a maximum size of 1 foot (0.3 meters) long. Rock beauties ...

Bonnethead sharks are the smallest member of the hammerhead shark family. Bonnethead sharks live in the warm coastal waters of the Atlantic Ocean, Gulf of Mexico, Caribbean Sea and off the Pacific ...

Sand tiger sharks can grow up to 20 feet (6.1 meters) long, with an average length of 12 feet (3.7 meters). They can weigh up to 600 pounds (272.2 kilograms), but weigh around 240 pounds (108.9 ...