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Title: Grouper Hunts Silversides On Wreck. Egypt
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A red mouth grouper (Aethaloperca rogaa) hunts schooling silversides (hardyhead silverside: Atherinomorus forskaii) around the coral (including soft corals: Dendronephthya hemprichi) covered wreckage of the SS Carnatic, a 90m (290ft) schooner which sunk in 1869 on the Abu Nuhas Reef, Strait of Gubal, Red Sea. Egypt.
In Jules Verne's 1872 novel, Around the World in Eighty Days, Phileas Fogg intends to take a steamer named Carnatic to travel from Hong Kong to Yokohama, but misses it. His valet, Passepartout, catches the ship, however.
In Jules Verne's 1872 novel, Around the World in Eighty Days, Phileas Fogg intends to take a steamer named Carnatic to travel from Hong Kong to Yokohama, but misses it. His valet, Passepartout, catches the ship, however.
- Abu Nuhas
- Bony Fishes: Osteichthyes
- Carnatic
- Egypt
- Fishes
- Groupers: Serranids: Serranidae
- Gulf of Suez
- hardyhead silverside: Atherinomorus forskaii
- Marine Life
- redmouth grouper: Aethaloperca rogaa
- Red Sea
- shipwreck
- soft coral: Dendronephthya sp.
- wreck
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