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"The Seven Seas" is a figurative term for all the seas of the known world. [1] The phrase is used in reference to sailors and pirates in the arts and popular culture and can be associated with the Mediterranean Sea, the Arabian Seven Seas east of Africa and India (as told with Sinbad's seven journeys, and Captain Kidd), or is sometimes applied to the Caribbean Sea and seas around the Americas ...
Four subspecies are recognized: B. m. musculus in the North Atlantic and North Pacific, B. m. intermedia in the Southern Ocean, B. m. brevicauda (the pygmy blue whale) in the Indian Ocean and South Pacific Ocean, and B. m. indica in the Northern Indian Ocean. There is a population in the waters off Chile that may constitute a fifth subspecies.
[7] [9] The genus name Zanclus is derived from the Ancient Greek word zanklon, meaning "sickle", and is an allusion to the long curved dorsal fin. The specific name , cornutus , means "horned", and refers to the small bony protuberances over the eyes.
The Bosporus, taken from the International Space Station Map of the Dardanelles. The Black Sea is connected to the World Ocean by a chain of two shallow straits, the Dardanelles and the Bosporus. The Dardanelles is 55 m (180 ft) deep, and the Bosporus is as shallow as 36 m (118 ft).
Of the five gyres on this map, all have significant garbage patches. In 2014, there were five areas across all the oceans where the majority of plastic concentrated. [8] Researchers collected a total of 3070 samples across the world to identify hot spots of surface level plastic pollution.
The yellowfin tuna (Thunnus albacares), also known as the Albacore tuna, is a species of tuna found in pelagic waters of tropical and subtropical oceans worldwide.. Yellowfin is often marketed as ahi, from the Hawaiian ʻahi, a name also used there for the closely related bigeye tuna. [3]
The stickleback family, Gasterosteidae, was first proposed as a family by the French zoologist Charles Lucien Bonaparte in 1831. [1] It was long thought that the sticklebacks and their relatives made up a suborder, the Gasterosteoidei, of the order Gasterostiformes with the sea horses and pipefishes making up the suborder Syngnathoidei.
The namesake Mediterranean Seas, including the Black Sea, the Sea of Azov, the Aegean Sea (including the so called Thracian Sea and Sea of Crete), the Adriatic Sea, the Alboran Sea, the Ligurian Sea, the Balearic Sea, the Tyrrhenian Sea, the Ionian Sea, and the Sea of Marmara. The Arctic Ocean (or Arctic Mediterranean Sea) [3] The American ...