Essays on Marine Life

Imagine living in a world where it’s not as clean as you remember. All you can see is clear bottles lining the surface of your world, alongside a thick layer of filth including plastic bags, milk bottles and fellow ocean life struggling to inhabit the…

Crayweed Crayweed, or known by its scientific name Phyllospora comosa, is a species of brown algae that is primarily endemic to Australia’s east coast, spanning from Tasmania all the way up to Port Macquarie usually along shallow reefs. In addition, Crayweed was also abundant along…

Anand et al. (1997), have stated that decades ago bioactive compounds have been discovered from marine organism and thought to be of great use and significant in fighting against a pathogenic microorganism. Hughes et al. (2010) have said that due to the major threat of…

Bioluminescence is the term used to define the chemical that produces light energy within the body of an organism. For the reaction to take place organism must contain a molecule called luciferin, which then reacts with oxygen to produce light. According to scientists, there are…

According to the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) and various climate-change models, the temperatures of the waters in tropical regions are to increase by 1.8-4°C over the next century due to climate change (Bates et al. 58). This increase is in addition…

The Great Pacific patch was discovered in 1997 by an American oceanographer named Charles Moore. The patch is located in the northern part of the Pacific Ocean between California and Hawaii. It is largely composed of different types of plastic, chemical sludge and other trash…

Swimming crab of family portunidae rafinesque-schmaltz 1815 are crustaceans inhabit sub tidal estuarine and offshore waters and widely distributed across the indo-west pacific region. charybdis de haan 1833 is the second largest genus within the sub-family thalamitinae paulson 1875. mitochondrial dna 16s rrna gene was…

Marine environments ant its sediments act as a sink, accumulating many persistent pollutants that will be slowly released and made available for the trophic chain (Di Leonardo et al., 2014). This scenario suggests a need to apply methods for the identification, evaluation and intervention to…

This work presents the effect of a soil washing procedure on a biological system (Mytilus galloprovincialis) maintained in a mesocosm system designed to maintain the resuspension of the sediments, as it can happen in open water in case of storms or turbulence induced by the…

Introduction Opisthobranchia, a specialized group of phylum Mollusca, is the third largest group in Gastropoda. There are more than 3,000 known species of nudibranchs (Holland, 2008) with their habitats ranging from intertidal areas to seabeds a mile deep. Most of the species are exclusively benthic…