Nearly identical in appearance, the common longnose butterfly has a much shorter mouth than the big longnose butterflyfish. Their beaklike mouths are used to probe corals and reef crevices in ...

Finding a new species of butterflyfish is a rare event." Deep coral reefs at depths of 150 to 500 feet, also known as mesophotic coral ecosystems or "the coral-reef twilight zone," are among the ...

Her colleague Nathan Sanders has called the butterflyfish the "canaries of the reef," and they say the results of this study — published this week in the journal Nature Climate Change ...

Finding a new species of butterflyfish is a rare event.” Deep coral reefs at depths of 150 to 500 feet, also known as mesophotic coral ecosystems or “the coral-reef twilight zone,” are among ...

a team of researchers studied how a mass bleaching event affected 38 species of butterflyfish. The colorfully patterned reef fish are the first to feel the effect of bleaching because they eat ...

Impact of seaweed-covered corals on reef fish Date: January 4, 2016 Source: University of Delaware Summary: Butterflyfish avoid coral that has come in contact with seaweed, research shows. This is ...

This specific butterflyfish lived sometime in the 1970s just south of Lizard Island on the Great Barrier Reef. It swam in the company of two others: gold-striped butterflyfish whose shiny bodies ...

Keith and her colleagues studied butterflyfish — a colorful group of coral-eating reef fish — at 17 sites across five Indo-Pacific regions, including Indonesia, Japan, the Philippines and ...

Exotic Species: You have the opportunity to keep unique marine species, including clownfish, tangs, and even corals and ...

Finding a new species of butterflyfish is a rare event." Deep coral reefs at depths of 150 to 500 feet, also known as mesophotic coral ecosystems or "the coral-reef twilight zone," are among the ...