San Antonio Beach - 08/25/07

Our very first Lab was at San Antonio Beach where we would collect marine animals and put them in our class aquariums for extra points. I always strive for the extra points for a better grade. The snorkeling was fun but the water was nasty.

Below are pictures and information on the marine animals that were caught and also some of my observations of the San Antonio Beach.


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1. Banded pepefish, Corythoichthys intestinalis, 10 cm [Family Syngnathidae - Pipefishes & Seahorses]






2. Synapta maculata (Synaptidae), 140 cm [Holothurians - Family Synaptidae, etc.]
Charmaine, Justo and myself found one just like this one but it was returned back into the ocean because someone had already collected one.


3. Diadema savignyi (Dia dematidae), 20 cm [Sea Urchins]








4. Frog shell, Bursa rubeta (Bursidae) [Murex Shells, etc.]






5. Shrimp

6. Fishes

7. Black Boxfish or Puffer (I thought this fish was really cute)

8. Black Sea Cucumber


My observation of San Antonio Beach:

- Lots of Sea Weeds

- Lots of algae

- Lots of Black Sea Cucumbers

- Many different types of small fish

- fish travel in small groups apart from each group


- parrot fish (Bullethead parrotfish, Scarus sordidus, 30 cm - Parrotfishes - Family Scaridae)




- striped fish (Striped surgeon fish, Acanthurus lineatus, 35 cm - Surgeonfishes - Family Acanthuridae)






- butterfly fish (Moorish idol Zanclus cornutus, (Zanclidae) 22 cm - Surgeonfishes - Family Acanthuridae, etc.




- Lots of small holes in the sand that the fish use to hide (home)

- Fish hides underneath rocks as well as in between (home)

- Fish are mostly present where the wreckage remain at the very bottom (home)


CITE: pictures obtained from http://images.google.com/images?gbv=2&svnum=10&hl=en&q