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Fish of the Gulf of California (aka Sea of Cortez) Offline access enabled Print Fish of the Gulf of California (aka Sea of Cortez) All 81; ... Split page, species info on the left, room for notes on the right. Species info will be truncated to fit on the page. Taxa to include. All taxa in this guide 81 taxa matching current filters Note: most ...
Fish of the Gulf of California — a gulf/sea of the Pacific Ocean in northwestern Mexico.
Guide to commonly and occasionally encountered marine fishes of Gulf of California / Sea of Cortez / Vermillion Sea. This guide is primarily intended for snorkel and dive ID - please add your sightings to iNat for distribution mapping.
Its more than 900 islands are important nesting sites for thousands of seabirds, and its waters are primary breeding, feeding, and nursing grounds for myriad migratory and resident fish species. For decades, the gulf has been a primary source of two of Mexico's leading marine resources, sardines and anchovies. Water pollution is a problem in ...
29 sty 2020 · It is home to 695 vascular plant species, more than in any marine and insular property on the World Heritage List. Equally exceptional is the number of fish species: 891, 90 of them endemic. The site, moreover, contains 39% of the world’s total number of species of marine mammals and a third of the world’s marine cetacean species.
Described by French ocean explorer Jacques Cousteau as the world's aquarium, the gulf supports an extraordinary diversity of marine life, which includes endangered marine turtles and dolphins, coral reefs and over 900 different fish species.
Grunion are two fish species of the genus Leuresthes: the California grunion, L. tenuis, and the Gulf grunion, L. sardinas. They are sardine -sized teleost fishes of the New World silverside family Atherinopsidae, found only off the coast of California, USA, and Baja California, Mexico, where the species are found on both the Pacific Ocean and ...
