Widespread and large populations of the non-native eastern Pacific ophiuroid brittle star Ophiothela mirabilis now occur in southeastern Florida, extending range this recently introduced species from southern Brazil northward to Caribbean Sea Florida. The Florida stars, representing two lineages, are epibionts on shallow (3–18 m depth), tropical/subtropical plexaurid (e.g., Eunicea spp., Murice...

The Lhasa River is one of the five tributaries Yarlung Zangbo River. It main industrial, agricultural and animal husbandry area in Tibet. plays an important ecological security barrier role regulating regional climate maintaining biodiversity. In order to understand resource utilization ability relationship fish River, provide basic data for protection sustainable diversity fishery resources Se...

Adhesive apparatus is the modifications of the skin of the ventral surface. Fast water current is the single most important limiting factor deciding the occurrence and survival of fauna and flora unless equipped with special adaptive features to with-stand the vicissitudes of nature. In hillstream fishes, the presence of adaptive modifications in their body organization is of prime importance f...

Few vertebrates capture prey in both the aquatic and the terrestrial environment due to the conflicting biophysical demands of feeding in water versus air. The Atlantic mudskipper (Periophthalmus barbarus) is known to be proficient at feeding in the terrestrial environment and feeds predominately in this environment. Given the considerable forward flow of water observed during the mouth-opening...

Opegaster ouemoensis sp. n. is described from Periophthalmus argentilineatus Valenciennes (Gobiidae). Distinctive features included the weak or undetectable papillae of the ventral sucker and the small, but distinct cirrus-sac. The new species is compared with 25 marine species of Opegaster for which a table of measurements and ratios is presented. The new combination Opegaster queenslandicus (...