Species Names Flashcards
Ice fishes
Notothenioids
Salinity gradient flounder
Platichthys flesus
3 spined stickleback
Gasterosteus aculeatus
Atlantic cod
Gadus morhua
Beaked redfish
Sebastes mentella
Roundnose grenadier
Coryphaenoides rupestris
Arc-eye hawkfish
Paracirrhites arcatus
Coral eating snails
Adaptation to host
Coralliophilia radula
Coralliophilia violacea
Indo-Pacific surgeonfishes
Local adaptation and speciation
Acanthurus olivaceus
Acanthurus reversus
Killer whale
Orcinus orca
Gulf corvina
Cynoscion othonopterus
North Atlantic right whale
Eubalaena glacialis
Yellowstripe goatfish
Mulloidichthys flavolineatus
Stareye parrotfish
Calotomus carolinus
Greenland shark
Somniosus microcepalus
Southern right whales
Eubalaena australis
Toxic dianoflagellate that produces brevetoxins
Karenia brevis
European HAB species
Karenia mikimotoi
Pacific vent community species:
Tube worms
Clams
Pacific vent mussels
Riflia papchyptila
Calyptogena magnifica
Bathymodiolus thermophilus
Vertically migrating krill
migrate to levels above 160m
Thysanopoda tricuspidata
T. equalis
Vertically migrating krill
stay between 160 and 300 m
Thysanopoda pectinata
T. monacantha
T. orientalis
Undeeucheata species that only occupy similar levels if similar sizes
Undeeucheata major
U. plumosa
Pleuromamma species that only occupy similar levels if similar sizes
Pleuromamma xiphias
P. abdominalis
Deep sea squid with gas-filled buoyancy chamber
Spirula spirula