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Shoreline Protection Mangroves protect shorelines from erosion. Mangroves protect shorelines from damaging storm and hurricane winds, waves, and floods. Mangroves also help prevent erosion by stabilizing sediments with their tangled root systems. They maintain water quality and clarity, filterin
endangered species: a species in danger of becoming extinct that is protected by

Triakis semifasciata This long, slim shark likes the sandy bottoms of bays or estuaries in the eastern Pacific Ocean. It has a broad, short snout, triangular fins, and a notched, asymmetrical caudal (tail) fin. On the dorsal side, it exhibits a silver or bronzed-gray coloration, fading to white u
Danger to Humans The leopard shark poses virtually no danger to humans.

Sawfishes live in coastal tropical and subtropical waters, including estuaries and river systems. Once ranging from New York to Texas, the smalltooth sawfish is now largely limited to the waters off the Florida coasts. With populations of sawfishes in decline, all information about these species is
They are in danger of extinction due to overfishing and habitat modification and

Our mission, should we choose to accept it, will be to find the worm Chaetopterus pergamentaceus from its type locality of „Antilles.“ Armed with that informative location description (thanks, Cuvier), Jenna’s keen sense of worm-dar, and Google Earth, we gladly accepted the mission and headed off to
current, the right amount of protection from the waves, and, to add an element of danger

Mobula birostris This is the largest ray in the world, its ‚wing span‘ averaging about 22 feet across, but measured at almost 30 feet in rare cases. It has distinct triangular pectoral wings that arch backwards, and cephalic fins on either side of its mouth that can be unfurled and angled to dire
Danger to Humans Mantas are of minimal danger to humans.

There have been two primary reasons for the decline of the smalltooth populations: bycatch in various commercial and recreational fisheries along with habitat loss and degradation. Since the U.S. smalltooth sawfish population was listed as endangered in 2003, these threats greatly decreased (some o
The ESA defines an “endangered species� as “any species which is in danger

Amblyraja radiata These cool-water skates have rounded diamond shaped pectoral disks with stout tails, usually muddy brown on top, and white underneath. They are named for the scattered thorny denticles along their spines, edges of pectoral fins, and tails, interspersed with smaller ‚prickles‘. T
Danger to Humans There is little danger associated with the thorny skate.

Sphyraena barracuda This long, tubular fish has a very pointed snout filled with two rows of teeth, and small fins set back towards its crescent caudal (tail) fin. It is a shiny blue-gray above, fading to silver and white below, usually with dark spots on its lower sides, and sometimes with faint
successful daytime ambush hunter that can burst in speeds up to 35 mph, and is a danger

Scomberomorus cavalla This elongated torpedo-shaped fish usually folds its first dorsal fin and pectoral fins into grooves, and keeps its second dorsal fin, anal fin, and finlets up to help with speed and maneuvering. It has a pointed snout and a distinctly forked caudal (tail) fin, and is usuall
a popular game fish, but are also one of the four fish at the top of the FDA’s danger

Pteroplatytrygon violacea This unique stingray is named for its preference for a pelagic habitat, the open sea instead of near shore or ocean bottom, like most stingrays. It has a dark purple to blue-gray, wedge-shaped pectoral disc, which it flaps to ‚fly‘ through the water, and can grow to over
Danger to Humans There is one or more venomous spines located about a third of the