Information On The Ocean World

Whales
California Gray Whale
This whale is a great sight (although about half the size of its cousin, the blue whale) to see at a whale watching boat. There are other chances to see this whale. For example, when it goes on an annual 5,000-mile march, you can scuba dive and see the California gray whale. In other times, you can find this whale if youre lucky enough. The California gray whale weighs up to forty tons-very heavy indeed-and measures up to fifty feet in length. The weakness of whales is when they get stranded on land. Their lungs collapse under the great weight of their bodies and the whales will suffocate.

Fish
Cardinal Fish
These fish can be found traveling in groups or schools. The cardinal fish can buoy in water easily because of their light bodies. This way, they can hover in the water. The cardinal fish dont need very little food so they can keep their bodies light.

Blue-And-Yellow Striped Angelfish

This angelfish is more laterally flattened than most other fish. The blue-and-yellow striped angelfish can retain their swimming speed and can go through narrow crevices, whether for protection or for hunting prey. The butterfly fish and the spadefish are flattened this way, too.

Blue-Spotted Rock Cod

This sea bass can be found on Australias Great Barrier Reef. The blue-spotted rock cod is a good example of fusiform fish. When necessary, the blue-spotted rock cod can move at express train speed to attack its prey.

Trumpetfish
This fish if attenuated in shape and cylindrical in general form. Even though eels and morays are more flexible than the trumpetfish, their proportions are kind of eel-like which prevents them from disguising themselves as some of the staghorn corals they normally dwell among. Trumpetfish, however, can disguise themselves as staghorn corals.

Hardtails
These fish are the members of the jack family, those swiftswimming relatives of the pompano that range the oceans of the world. Their flattened fusiform shape and reinforced narrow tail base allow hardtails to be one of the most powerful swimmers in the sea.

Grunt
This blue and black fish is a fish with a swim bladder. Like most fishes, grunts can hover in the water easily because of a swim bladder. It doesnt matter what level of sea they are on. Grunts can buoy anywhere in the sea.

Soldierfish
Soldierfish are one of the many species that are both fusiform and laterally flattened in shape. They dwell in open areas of reefs and come out at night very frequently. The squirrelfish share these descriptions as well.

Spotted Trunkfish
The spotted trunkfish can be found in the coral reef searching for food. Its rigid body makes the spotted trunkfish a clumsy swimmer, but in an emergency this fish is capable of surprising bursts of speed, but only for a short time.

Sharks Invertebrates Mollusks Starfish Dolphins Shrimp And Prawns Corals Rays

Angel Shark
Although its name can cause people to think of and angel shark as a true shark, it is not a shark at all. It is a member of the ray family, not the shark family. But the angel shark shares a similarity with sharks. The angel shark must move constantly, due to the lack of a swim bladder. Also, the angel shark is heavier than water, so it wont hover in the water. An angel shark is a great creature of the sea.

Stingray
The stingrays flattened form enables it to move along the bottom almost surreptiously. Flattened on both sides, the stingray is an example of the dorsoventrally form. Rays and their relatives, the skates, have become flattened and have made a unique means of locomotion dependant on their body shape.

Turtles Eels
Moray Eel
The moray eel has an attenuated shape, which enables it to slip in and out of openings in the rocky reefs it lives in. In addition, the moray eel can seek food in the small holes that are in many reefs. The moray eel frequently lies in a dark hole, waiting for prey to pass by. Sometimes, divers might stick their hands in holes and sometimes get bitten by moray eels. In case you are wondering, moray eels are usually not aggressive.

Sea Mammals Other

Sea Snake
The sea snake is a perfect example of the traveling wave. Distinct S-curves travel from the sea creatures head and along its flattened body, and in the increasing breadth, and finally, the tail. Studies of the eddies made at each curve of the body of the sea snake show that the supple snakes may actually roll on the swirls they cause in the water.