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Blackfin Barracuda
The blackfin barracuda (''Sphyraena qenie''), also known as the chevron barracuda, is known for its aggressive, predatory personality. Distribution This species of barracuda ranges from the Red Sea and East Africa to the Indo-Pacific, Indo and Western Pacific Ocean, Western Pacific and as far as French Polynesia and typically live in tropical and temperate waters. The Indo-Pacific Ocean has tropical and subtropical waters that make it a favorable habitat for ''S. qenie''. The first sighting of this species in Indian waters was in 1966. Although rare, this species can also be found in the Tropical Eastern Pacific, tropical East Pacific. In Japan, they can be found in the waters around Ryukyu Islands, Ryukyu, Amami Ōshima, Amami Oshima, Yonaguni, Tanegashima, Tanega, and Ishigaki Island, Ishigaki Islands. For Ryukyu Island, only the adults migrate there from tropical waters when temperatures are too high. Additionally, during the summer seasons, they have also been spotted near ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Carl Benjamin Klunzinger
Carl Benjamin Klunzinger (18 November 1834, in Güglingen – 21 June 1914, in Stuttgart) was a German physician and zoologist. He studied medicine at the Universities of University of Tübingen, Tübingen and University of Würzburg, Würzburg, afterwards attending lectures on geology and zoology in Vienna and Prague. In 1862 he traveled to Cairo, where he spent eighteen months learning Arabic. Beginning in February 1864 he worked as a physician at Al-Qusayr, Egypt, Kosseir, a seaport on the Red Sea. Here he spent five years collecting a vast quantity of fish and other marine specimens. From 1869 he examined his Red Sea collection at the ''Staatliches Museum für Naturkunde Stuttgart'', traveling to Frankfurt and Berlin in order to conduct zoological comparison studies. At Stuttgart he also investigated Australian fish species procured by Ferdinand von Mueller (1825-1896), from whose collection Klunzinger described approximately fifty new species from Australia and New Zeal ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
