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NOAA Coral Reef Conservation Program, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, U.S. Department of Commerce
Any of a family of tropical reef fishes (Aulostomidae), recognised by its long body, tubular snout with minute teeth, its chin barbel, and a series of short dorsal spines. A carnivore, It often approaches its prey vertically, darting down from above and sucking the prey into its long snout.
Industry:Natural environment
Distinctly separate; disjunct populations are populations separated from other potentially interbreeding populations by a distance large enough to prevent exchange of genetic materials.
Industry:Natural environment
In mollusks, refers to having gill lamellae on both sides of the ctenidial axis.
Industry:Natural environment
Near real-time information derived from data either from satellite images or in situ monitoring stations at coral reef areas to help improve and sustain coral reef health throughout the world.
Industry:Natural environment
Refers to the side of an island or reef that faces the prevailing wind.
Industry:Natural environment
The canal, including the stomach and intestines, leading from the mouth to the anus.
Industry:Natural environment
The main body of a mollusk, which contains most of the organs, including a complete digestive and excretory tract as well as the reproductive organs. The visceral hump also includes the mantle, which consists of two external flaps of tissue that secretes the material that forms the shell on some species, and it protects the mantle cavity. The mantle cavity contains the gills, which excrete waste and circulate oxygen. Most mollusks have a shell, which sits on the visceral hump and a protects the main body from predators.
Industry:Natural environment
The selections of methods and how they are used to gain data and information at a site.
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Unreactive nucleotides that closely resemble the nucleotides that make up DNA. They are 'dummy' nucleotides that act as placeholders when DNA is sequenced.
Industry:Natural environment
