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PISCES - Florida Bay
Florida Bay include seagrass meadows, mangrove islands, and hard bottom areas. Turtle grass (Thalassia testudinum) and manatee grass (Syringodium filiforme) are abundant, providing nursery areas for commercially important species of shrimp ...
www.flmnh.ufl.edu


Discovery.com - Life on the Reef: Today from the Bahamas - Dispatch 12
It even flies from blades of turtle grass like transparent pirate flags. The Andros reef is classified by the United Nation’s World ...
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Discovery.com - Life on the Reef: Today from the Bahamas - Dispatch 3
Forfar to wade, snorkel and dive the reef in search of creatures like turtle grass, sea fans, trumpet fish and towering elkhorn coral. Perhaps the biggest legend of all, though ...
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Manatee Brain
Thalassia- turtle grass) inaccessible to manatees w/o tusks. & kelp)Another extinct genus = Metaxytherium = (no tusks) unspecialized feedero= graed leaves of sea grasses. Sea-grass beds supported diverse species of plants until about 2-3 mya, and they supported a contingent of large tusked rhizome eater. Turtle grass is a climax species ...
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Outpost: Blue Frontier @ nationalgeographic.com
Sand flats • Sea grass meadows Key Species • Loggerhead sea turtle • Manatee • Stone crab • Tarpon • Brain and star coral • Sea fan • Turtle grass • Angelfish • Spiny lobster • Grouper Cultural Resources ... float by. In much of the sanctuary, patches of reef alternate with sea grass meadows that offer convenient places for juvenile spiny lobsters and other vulnerable ...
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CRESLI's Green sea turtle page
Bureau Sighting report Volunteering Weather Search WWW Search www.cresli.org Green Sea Turtle (Chelonia mydas) These large turtles can reach up to 500 - 600 pounds ... flesh and the calipee which is often used in turtle soup. Although protected by law in the US, green turtle eggs are regularly harvested for food in ... Sound to feed on crabs, crustaceans and submerged aquatic vegetation such as eel grass ...
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Ornate Box Turtle - WDNR
Wisconsin River floodplain. Life History Defense The ornate box turtle is the only strictly terrestrial (land dwelling) turtle species in Wisconsin. The high-domed shell serves as ... in summer. Food Habits: Omnivorous. Eat spiderwort, ground cherries, prickly pear cacti, blackberries, grass, beetles, grasshoppers, and caterpillars. Natural History: Active: April to October. Usually diurnal, ...
www.dnr.state.wi.us


EuroTurtle - Green Sea Turtle
Broderick & Godley (1995) Commensals and disease: Unlike loggerhead turtles, the green turtle has very few commensals. Little is known about specific diseases suffered by this species. ... occurs in other species of sea turtle. Feeding: Seagrass illustration: M. Demma Β© ICRAM Mature green turtles feed during the day time in the sea grass beds that grow in shallow waters ...
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Natural communities - pond ecosystem, forest ecosystem, tall grass prairie
Natural communities - pond ecosystem, forest ecosystem, tall grass prairie Move to content Who We Are Staff Sections Staff Directory Move to content What' ... to Content Learn Annual Report Education Links Staff Publications Move to content Citizen Science Box Turtle Survey Bumblebee Survey Tarantula Survey What is a Natural Area? Managing Natural Areas Natural Areas ...
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green turtle
What's on the menu? Young green turtles eat small marine creatures like shrimp and jellyfish, as well as floating insects, sea grass and marine algae. Click here to see a young green turtle ...
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