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Embiotoca
''Embiotoca'' is a genus of surfperches native to the eastern Pacific Ocean. Species There are currently two recognized species in this genus: * '' Embiotoca jacksoni'' Agassiz, 1853 (Black surfperch) * '' Embiotoca lateralis'' Agassiz Jean Louis Rodolphe Agassiz ( ; ) FRS (For) FRSE (May 28, 1807 – December 14, 1873) was a Swiss-born American biologist and geologist who is recognized as a scholar of Earth's natural history. Spending his early life in Switzerland, he recei ..., 1854 (Striped surfperch) References Embiotocidae Marine fish genera Taxa named by Louis Agassiz {{Blenniiformes-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Embiotoca Jacksoni
''Embiotoca jacksoni'', commonly known as the black surfperch, is a species of surfperch native to shallow coastal areas of the Eastern Pacific Ocean. Other common names of the species include black perch and butterlips. They are commercially important food fish, food and game fish. Taxonomy and etymology ''Embiotoca jacksoni'' is one of two species classified under the genus ''Embiotoca'', the other being the striped surfperch (''Embiotoca lateralis''). The species was first described by the Swiss-American biologist Louis Agassiz in 1853. The Specific name (zoology), specific name honors A.C Jackson who carried out a survey of port locations in San Francisco where he drew a sketch of a gravid female which he sent to Agassiz. Description The black surfperch has a laterally compressed frontal profile and deep body. Despite their common name, they are not black in color. They are usually a uniform dark reddish brown to tan in color, but they often also possess large darker colore ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Embiotoca Lateralis
''Embiotoca lateralis'', commonly known as the striped surfperch or striped seaperch, is a species of surfperch native to the Northeastern Pacific Ocean. Description The striped surfperch is characterized by bright blue stripes running lengthwise down the body, which can be bronze, brown-orange, or pink to darker black. It has blue spots on the head and operculum. The fins are often orange to yellow-black, and the anal and soft dorsal fins can possess black bands. They are deep bodied and have a laterally compressed frontal profile. They have small teeth on the mouth. Individuals reach maximum lengths of and a maximum weight of . Like other surfperch, the fish is viviparous, giving birth to life offspring. They mature at around 2 years of age, usually being around . Habitat and ecology The striped surfperch is found from Punta Baja, Central Baja California, to Wrangrell, Southeastern Alaska. It is often found near rocky reefs, eelgrass beds, kelp forests, and underwa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Embiotoca
''Embiotoca'' is a genus of surfperches native to the eastern Pacific Ocean. Species There are currently two recognized species in this genus: * '' Embiotoca jacksoni'' Agassiz, 1853 (Black surfperch) * '' Embiotoca lateralis'' Agassiz Jean Louis Rodolphe Agassiz ( ; ) FRS (For) FRSE (May 28, 1807 – December 14, 1873) was a Swiss-born American biologist and geologist who is recognized as a scholar of Earth's natural history. Spending his early life in Switzerland, he recei ..., 1854 (Striped surfperch) References Embiotocidae Marine fish genera Taxa named by Louis Agassiz {{Blenniiformes-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Surfperch
The surfperches are a family of percomorph fishes, the Embiotocidae. They are mainly found in northeast Pacific Ocean (as far south as Baja California), but a few species (genera '' Ditrema'' and '' Neoditrema'') are found in the northwest Pacific, and the tule perch is found in freshwater habitats in California, United States. The largest species in the family, are the barred surfperch (''Amphistichus argenteus'') which reaches up to and , and the rubberlip surfperch (''Rhacochilus toxotes'') which grows to and . They are viviparous fishes, in which the embryo is nourished directly by the mother, as well as the yolk. This gives the family its scientific name, from Greek ''embios'' meaning 'persistent' and ''tokos'' meaning 'birth'. This means the mother fish gives live birth instead of laying eggs. The only known fossil member of the family is '' Eriquius'' from the Late Miocene of California. See also * List of fish families This is a list of fish families sorted alph ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
New England Aquarium
The New England Aquarium is a nonprofit organization located in Boston, Massachusetts. The species exhibited include Harbor seal, harbor and northern fur seals, California sea lions, African penguin, African and southern rockhopper penguins, giant Pacific octopuses, Common seadragon, weedy seadragons, and thousands of saltwater and freshwater fishes. In addition to the main aquarium building, attractions at Central Wharf include the Simons Theatre and the New England Aquarium Whale Watch. More than 1.3 million guests visited the aquarium each year prior to the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic. The Anderson Cabot Center for Ocean Life at the New England Aquarium conducts long-running research on the North Atlantic right whale, and its Quincy Animal Care Center rescues and rehabilitates hundreds of sea turtles annually. History Boston has had multiple aquariums since the 1880s, the last before the New England Aquarium being the South Boston Aquarium at Marine Park, which closed i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Boston
Boston is the capital and most populous city in the Commonwealth (U.S. state), Commonwealth of Massachusetts in the United States. The city serves as the cultural and Financial centre, financial center of New England, a region of the Northeastern United States. It has an area of and a population of 675,647 as of the 2020 United States census, 2020 census, making it the third-largest city in the Northeastern United States after New York City and Philadelphia. The larger Greater Boston metropolitan statistical area has a population of 4.9 million as of 2023, making it the largest metropolitan area in New England and the Metropolitan statistical area, eleventh-largest in the United States. Boston was founded on Shawmut Peninsula in 1630 by English Puritans, Puritan settlers, who named the city after the market town of Boston, Lincolnshire in England. During the American Revolution and American Revolutionary War, Revolutionary War, Boston was home to several seminal events, incl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rhacochilus Vacca
''Rhacochilus'' is a genus of surfperches native to the eastern Pacific Ocean. Species There are currently two recognized species in this genus: * '' Rhacochilus toxotes'' Agassiz Jean Louis Rodolphe Agassiz ( ; ) FRS (For) FRSE (May 28, 1807 – December 14, 1873) was a Swiss-born American biologist and geologist who is recognized as a scholar of Earth's natural history. Spending his early life in Switzerland, he recei ..., 1854 (Rubberlip surfperch) * '' Rhacochilus vacca'' ( Girard, 1855) (Pile perch) References Embiotocidae Marine fish genera Taxa named by Louis Agassiz {{Blenniiformes-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Monterey, California
Monterey ( ; ) is a city situated on the southern edge of Monterey Bay, on the Central Coast (California), Central Coast of California. Located in Monterey County, California, Monterey County, the city occupies a land area of and recorded a population of 30,218 in the 2020 United States census, 2020 census. The city was founded by the Spanish Empire, Spanish in 1770, when Gaspar de Portolá and Junípero Serra established the Presidio of Monterey, California, Presidio of Monterey and the Cathedral of San Carlos Borromeo (Monterey, California), Cathedral of San Carlos Borromeo. Monterey was elevated to capital of the the Californias, Province of the Californias in 1777, servings as the administrative and military headquarters of both Alta California and Baja California, as well as its only official port of entry. Following the Mexican War of Independence, Monterey continued as the capital of the Mexican The_Californias#Department_of_Mexico, Department of the Californias. During t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Louis Agassiz
Jean Louis Rodolphe Agassiz ( ; ) FRS (For) FRSE (May 28, 1807 – December 14, 1873) was a Swiss-born American biologist and geologist who is recognized as a scholar of Earth's natural history. Spending his early life in Switzerland, he received a PhD at Erlangen and a medical degree in Munich. After studying with Georges Cuvier and Alexander von Humboldt in Paris, Agassiz was appointed professor of natural history at the University of Neuchâtel. He emigrated to the United States in 1847 after visiting Harvard University. He went on to become professor of zoology and geology at Harvard, to head its Lawrence Scientific School, and to found its Museum of Comparative Zoology. Agassiz is known for observational data gathering and analysis. He made institutional and scientific contributions to zoology, geology, and related areas, including multivolume research books running to thousands of pages. He is particularly known for his contributions to ichthyological classification, incl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Genus
Genus (; : genera ) is a taxonomic rank above species and below family (taxonomy), family as used in the biological classification of extant taxon, living and fossil organisms as well as Virus classification#ICTV classification, viruses. In binomial nomenclature, the genus name forms the first part of the binomial species name for each species within the genus. :E.g. ''Panthera leo'' (lion) and ''Panthera onca'' (jaguar) are two species within the genus ''Panthera''. ''Panthera'' is a genus within the family Felidae. The composition of a genus is determined by taxonomy (biology), taxonomists. The standards for genus classification are not strictly codified, so different authorities often produce different classifications for genera. There are some general practices used, however, including the idea that a newly defined genus should fulfill these three criteria to be descriptively useful: # monophyly – all descendants of an ancestral taxon are grouped together (i.e. Phylogeneti ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pacific Ocean
The Pacific Ocean is the largest and deepest of Earth's five Borders of the oceans, oceanic divisions. It extends from the Arctic Ocean in the north to the Southern Ocean, or, depending on the definition, to Antarctica in the south, and is bounded by the continents of Asia and Australia in the west and the Americas in the east. At in area (as defined with a southern Antarctic border), the Pacific Ocean is the largest division of the World Ocean and the hydrosphere and covers approximately 46% of Earth's water surface and about 32% of the planet's total surface area, larger than its entire land area ().Pacific Ocean . ''Encyclopædia Britannica, Britannica Concise.'' 2008: Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc. The centers of both the Land and water hemispheres, water hemisphere and the Western Hemisphere, as well as the Pole of inaccessi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
