Red Sea Fish
Red Sea - a unique tropical sea with a variety of strength and beauty of the representatives of the underwater world. Its uniqueness lies in the fact that this is a tropical sea located closest to Europe. Not surprisingly, the ports of international tourist center of Egypt: Hurghada and Sharm el Sheikh, Port Ghalib, Porto Sokhna and comfortable yachts come from the UK, Malta, France, Germany, Italy and other countries.
Since the late 80-ies in Egypt, due to the settlement of territorial issues with Israel, the adoption of new laws in the field of tourism and attracting foreign investment, were initiated a long-standing plans to build major international tourist attraction on the Red Sea: Hurghada and Sharm El Sheikh. Numerous tourists from around the world, the flow of which is increasing annually, Red Sea attracts not only the purity of its turquoise waters, coral, but its a lot of unique fauna.
In the waters of the Red Sea is home to over 1,250 varieties of marine fish, mammals and other marine fauna.
The great Russian artist Bilibin, traveling on the Red Sea, called it "shark soup”. Red Sea, in contrast to other seas of the world ocean has a temperature of water on the surface and in depth almost equally warm. In the region of the Sudan at a depth of 2870 meters recorded water temperature 50 ° C - that's really shark soup.
Amazing for its beauty underwater world has stimulated the development of diving in the Red Sea in Egypt. From Hurghada, Sharm El Sheikh, Safaga and Marsa Alam organized various fascinating sea safari from 1 to 7 days. Underwater world lovers can see all opportunity, with their own eyes to look at the lives of many marine mansions of the Red Sea.
The Red Sea is not only a coral fish, but turtles, sharks and dolphins. Also other marine animals living in warm tropical seas. On the pages of the section we have tried to gather as much information about marine fish (including carnivorous), and other inhabitants of the underwater world of the Red Sea through the catalog with photos and a description of the most common species.
Photos, pictures to the encyclopedia (ATLAS)
FISH OF THE RED SEA
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Sea bream
Dorado - distributed mainly in tropical and subtropicalparts of all oceans and adjoining seas, including the Red Sea
Honeycomb stingray
Anemonefish
FISH-clown. This is - a typical case of mutual symbiosis, when the coexistence oftwo organisms mutually beneficial. This fish characterized by ...Garfish
Fish surgeon
Samara red
Mackerel
Milk Fish
Scorpio fish
Gorgonian
Snail-cones
Fish Stone
Fish Stone. Most species of this family are distinguished by the presence of numerous venomous spines located in the dorsal ...Sea anemones
Sea urchins
Pomacentridae
Abudefduf - representatives of the family Pomacentridae - one of the most numerous fish in the surface waters above the coral reefs ...Largehead hairtai
Largehead hairtai. Pelagic fish. Depth habitats from 0 to 400 meters. Record copy: length 2,34 m, weight 5 kgScaridae fish
Fish Parrot gotits name from the brightly colored and teeth, connecting like beak.Most species feed on a thin layer ...Sea Eels
Tarpon
Humpback red snapper
Sargasso fish
Fish-lantern
Scorpaenopsis
Platycephalidae
Reefs
Dolphins
Leerfish
Flying fish. Fish-bird
Conger brilliant
Mombasa samara
Painted sweetlips.
Swordfish
Emperors
Fish-urchin
Diodontidae. Fish-urchinmay swell as Blowfish, and, moreover, all their body is covered withsharp spines, which is an additional means of ...Sea turtles
Humphead snapper
Giant guitarfish
Pomacanthidae angelfish
Yellowbar angelfish Bioligy: inhabits shallow lagoons, sitty bays, coral rich seward reefs, 2 to 60 m.Usually singly or in ...
Fish Napoleon
Fish Napoleon got its name from the characteristic bump on the head, resembling a hat of the French emperor. The ...Priacanthidae
Priacanthidae. These fish are in appearance, coloring, and night life are similar to the representatives of the family Holocentridae.Cnidarians
Shellfish
Groupers
Yellow-edged lyretail
Nudibranchia
Yellow-spotted scorpion
Dangers of Red Sea
Sailfish
Fish Sailboat (IstiophorusLacepède, 1801) - the genus of the family unit ParusnikovOkuneobraznyh, including two species of fish. Inhabits the tropicalwaters ...
Haemulidae
Haemulidae - its name, these fish were called due to the sounds made by them inthe teethgrinding and amplified by the ...Serranidae
Labroides dimidiatus
Labroides dimidiatu chose an unusual way of obtaining food: it cleans the other fish from parasites and dead scales and ...Butterflyfishes
Butterflyfish. Most typical and colorful reef fishes. During the day they are singly or in pairs patrolling the area, and ...Gobiidae
Gobies - this family has a huge number of fish more than 800 speciesdistributed throughout the world. Very elongated shape and ...Cuttlefish
Sea dogs
Bluebelly aspidont
Synodontidae
Ostraciidae
Ostraciidae. The name of those funny fish were due to firm shell, consisting of bony plates and covering their bodies.Stony corals
Hexacorallia
Clams
Cleaner shrimp
Sea worms
Fish Crocodile
Bluefin balistoidy
Mullidae
Mullet all carnivorous and feed mainly on small invertebrates, but some species are not averse and small fish.The second ...
Calamari
Wahoo
Caranx sexfasciatus
Caranx sexfasciatus -major commercial species, occurring mainly in the water circulated verywidely, from the eastern coast of Africa to the ...
African pompano
Pompano or Palometa (Trachinotus goodei), family stavridovyh has very long, the first rays of soft dorsal and anal fins.John dory. Fish-dory
Whitemouth jack
Depth habitats from 0 to 100 meters
Record copies ...
Indian red snapper
Common bluestripe snapper
Marlin
Fish-toad
Pineapple-fish
Shrimp Fish
Dwarf lionfish. Samara
Fish-Devil
Bearded Scorpion
Fish-Stone
Fish-devil reddening
Fish-hat
Triggerfish
Triggerfish - representatives of the family Balistidae have an unusual defensemechanism: the dorsal part of the body they are thorn, which ...Cirrhitidae
Cirrhitidae. Family has asmall number of species. These fish most of their time lying on thereefs or among the branches ...Octopus
Octopus (Latin OctĂŠ•Ë‡?poda from others-Greek. "Eight", etc., Greek. "Foot") - the most famous representatives of cephalopods.
Apogonidae
Apogonidae. The name ofthe fish was due to the presence of red color in the color of manyspecies of the ...Blowfish.
Idrosis
Scyphozoa Jellyfish
Soft corals
Fish falcon
Black-tailed Snapper
Fish hound
Fish-needle
Fish-needle lives in the coastal waters, walks near the upper edge of the reef.Elongated body of the fish with ...Fish-flute
Marine Butterfly
Dendrochirus zebra. Lionfish
Comb velvet fish
Snapper-dori
Labridae
Labridae. This family is very diverse, encompasses about 50 genera and numbers up to 600 species. Its members are very ...Scorpio fish (Pitching samara)
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