the present;
Saturday, March 28, 2009
Y 7:26 AM
Reflective journal 5 I went to look at the virtual tour for mangrove conservation and saw that there are many organisms that many people do not know exists. Like the blue crab (Callinectes sapidus) which can deliver an extremely painful pinch and are noted for being particularly aggressive and difficult to handle safely. Even when out of the water, they can still live. The natural predators of the blue crab include eels, drum, spot, trout, some sharks, and cownose sting rays. The blue crab is an omnivore, eating both plants and animals and consume thin-shelled bivalves, annelids, small fish, plants and nearly any other item they can find, including carrion and their own kind.
Sometimes in mangroves of other countries, there may be baby sharks swimming in between roots when there is a high tide. The organisms living on mangrove trees include, the isopod, Ligia, the mangrove crab, Aratus pisonii and the mangrove oyster, Crassostrea rhizophorae, a flat tree oyster. Other microorganisms include several species of sponges, bryozoans, hydrozoans, and the fan worm, Sabellastarte.
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