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Rémora Tiburonera (Remora remora)Autor
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Naval Dock Building, Sassoon Dock Rd, Azad Nagar, Colaba, Mumbai, Maharashtra 400005, India (Google, OSM)Qué
Menippe rumphiiAutor
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The red rock crab may be found statewide in shallow coastal areas and in bays, on rocky or reef-type habitat. They range from the intertidal zone to depths of 300 ft. or more.
Red rock crabs are both predators and scavengers, feeding on a variety of other invertebrates. Their strong, crushing claws allow them to prey on heavy-shelled animals such as snails, clams, abalone, barnacles, and oyster.
Scientific Name: Menippe rumphii
Other Common Names: red crab
Range & Habitat: Statewide in coastal areas and bays, on rocky or reef-type habitat
Length & Weight: To 8 in.
Life Span: To 6 years
Diet & Bait: Feed on a variety of invertebrates including snails, clams, abalone, barnacles, oysters. Try using clams for bait.
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Scientific name: Dynastinae
Dynastinae or rhinoceros beetles are a subfamily of the scarab beetle family.
The rhinoceros beetle (Oryctes rhinoceros) is aptly named because it has horns on its head, much like the rhinoceros does.
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Geco Tokay (Gekko gecko)Autor
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Scientific name : gekko gecko
Tokays are highly vocal geckos and are capable of producing many different sounds. Territorial specimens will make a barking type of call and startled individuals will often scream in surprise, fear or protest.
Food : Opportunistic feeders, tokay geckos consume just about anything they can overpower. In the wild much of their diet consists of insects and other lizards. In captivity they do well on a mix of crickets, mealworms, roaches, waxworms, hornworms, silkworms and small mice.
Status : endangered.
Economic value : highly priced in Chinese markets. A single gecko can sell for about 1Cr. Making them prone to poachers and hunters in the wild.
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Habit and Habitat : These spider medium in size inhabit in the bushes, shrub,
herbs of mangrove and semimangrove areas of Sunderban. They spin medium sized
webs on bushes and small trees,
occasionally on bamboo branches also. In
some cases they have seen to prepare web
on shrub. The web may be of considerable
height above the ground. On the other
hand they have been seen to prepare web
on adjacent br,anches in larg·e numbe s.
They feed on smaller to medium size of
insects entangled by their nests.
Common name : Dome shaped orb-
weav' ng spider.
Economic importanc,e : Acts as a
predator of harmful insects in the ·crop
fields.