10 Arafura Sea Facts You Might Not Know - Marine Insight
2023年2月9日 · Fishing is common in the waters of the Arafura Sea, which is home to many fish species such as the Barramundi, penaeid shrimp, Nemipteridae fish, groupers etc. The sea has 2.5 million tonnes of fishery resources.
The Arafura and Timor Seas are characterized by pronounced ecological connectivity (i.e. shared fish stocks and biodiversity, strong land-sea interactions), diverse seascapes, extensive coastal wetlands and shallow-water ecosystems and globally significant populations of marine species (especially megafauna).
Abundant corals and fishes emerge from the ancient contours of Arafura …
2020年11月17日 · Scientists have collected the first fine-scale maps and imagery of reefs and submarine canyons in the rarely visited Arafura Marine Park, revealing seafloor environments with surprisingly diverse...
Arafura catfish - Wikipedia
The Arafura catfish (Netuma proxima), also known as the Arafura sea catfish, [2] is a species of catfish in the family Ariidae. [3] It was described by James Douglas Ogilby in 1898, originally under the genus Arius. [1] It inhabits marine, brackish and freshwaters in the western Pacific. It reaches a maximum standard length of 46 cm (18 in). [3]
Rain, fish and snakes: climatically driven population ... - Springer
Arafura filesnakes (Acrochordus arafurae) are large (up to 2.5 m, 5 kg) aquatic nonvenomous snakes that feed entirely on fishes. A 10-year field study in the Australian wet-dry tropics revealed strong correlations between rainfall patterns, fish abundance, and snake population dynamics.
The Arafura Sea is a semi-enclosed continental shelf basin between northern Australia and Indonesian land masses. It is part of the Sahul shelf area that straddles the Indian
Arafura Sea - Animalia
The Arafura Sea lies west of the Pacific Ocean, overlying the continental shelf between Australia and Western New Guinea, which is the Indonesian part of the Island of New Guinea. The mahi-mahi or common dolphinfish (Coryphaena hippurus) is a surface-dwelling ray-finned fish found in off-shore temperate, tropical, and subtropical waters worldwide.
The Taiwanese pair trawler fishery in tropical Australian waters
1983年6月1日 · Catches were dominated by Nemipteridae, Lutjanidae, Synodontidae and Carangidae, but in the Arafura Sea Loligo spp. have become of increasing importance in recent years.
The Arafura filesnake (Acrochordus arafurae, family Acrochord-idae) is a large aquatic snake restricted to tropical Australia and New Guinea. The three living species of filesnakes differ in many ways from (and appear to be related only distantly to) most other snakes (McDowell 1987; Lillywhite 1991). They are stout-bodied animals,
Rain, fish and snakes: Climatically driven population dynamics of ...
2000年8月1日 · Arafura filesnakes (Acrochordus arafurae) are large (up to 2.5 m, 5 kg) aquatic nonvenomous snakes that feed entirely on fishes. A 10-year field study in the Australian wet-dry tropics revealed...
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