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| EVOLUTIONARY
VARIETY Any attempt to describe the marine life of the Red Sea risks drowning in superlatives - it is extraordinary, unparalleled, marvelous, incredible, and truly wondrous. The fact that the Red Sea has an almost isolated water body with higher temperature and salinity than most other world seas caused many evolutionary processes in the Red Sea, many species of fishes, crayfish, molluscs and other invertebrates exclusively live along the shore habitats of the Red Sea like the sea grass beds, sand zones and especially the coral reefs. Low humidity and the high rate of evaporation due to high temperatures, make the Red Sea one of the saltiest life-sustaining seas in the world. Salinity reaches 41 % and therefore a large variety of endemic species have developed. As a result this area has one of the richest concentrations of varieties of marine life in all of the tropical seas. Pipeworms in an organ pipe coral & christmastree worm The Red Sea is comparatively sheltered and calm: its currents are gentle and regular, it's tides almost non-existent and its temperature warm and steady. While its waters run quite deep, they are warmed by volcanic heat emanating from the seabed. The result of all these factors is an environment ideally suited to the complex and delicate ecosystem of coral reefs. | There
are over 250 species of coral, 8% endemic
to the Red Sea, soft fragile
to large hard corals, the variety of fish carries the
incredible number of over 1.250 different species, 20% endemic to
the Red Sea, and more than 1.000 species of invertebrates.
A
single giant Barracuda on the hunt & a a giant Moray Eel with
a Shrimp cleaning his skin
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