Green Flats is a reef in City Island Harbor, between City Island and Rat Island.[1] It is part of the Pelham Islands.
The reef is composed of mostly small round glacial alluvial rocks and a number of glacial erratics made of granite. It is covered in green seamoss and kelp. Like all true reefs, it is completely underwater (and a hazard to navigation) at high tide and visible at low tide.
Seagulls take mussels from the shallows and fly about 30 feet above the reef and drop them and smash the shells on the rocks and then eat the broken up mussels there. Great blue herons may be seen there hunting at low tide.
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GreenFlats is a reef in City Island Harbor, between City Island and Rat Island. It is part of the Pelham Islands. The reef is composed of mostly small...
Harbor include the Chimney Sweeps Islands, the Blauzes, and Rat Island. GreenFlatsReef is exposed at low tide. Every July 4, to celebrate Independence Day...
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in the 1930s. They are now part of Orchard Beach in Pelham Bay Park GreenFlatsReef Execution Rocks Lighthouse Eastchester Bay Cuban Ledge The Islands...
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island subsides, the coral fringing reef becomes a barrier reef that is detached from the island. Eventually, reef and the small coral islets on top of...
sediment build up on the reef surface – a depositional node. Such nodes occur in windward or leeward areas of reefs, where flat surfaces sometimes rise...
hogfish (Lachnolaimus maximus). Because of this predation, the reef urchin avoids open reefflats and in these locations there is an overgrowth of fleshy algae...
several marine habitats, including seagrass meadows, intertidal sand flats, coral reefflats, and lagoons, and supports an important and diverse range of species...
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coastal parts of the Indo-West Pacific, including coral reefs, among rocks, seagrass beds, tidal flats and in brackish habitats. Despite the common names,...
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meadows. It is also found on coral rubble, under boulders and on rocky reefflats. Its depth range is from the lower shore down to a depth of at least 86 m...
a species of staghorn coral in the family Acroporidae. It is found on reefflats and in lagoons in very shallow water in the western Indo-Pacific Ocean...
suggests, is found in the surge zone of outer reefflats and on the reef margins of coral and rocky reefs. It is normally found in depths of less than...
kept in reef aquaria. Mithraculus sculptus is a small crab with a carapace longer than it is wide and large chelae (claws). The carapace is flat, shiny...
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gigantea hosts 7 different species of anemonefish Amphiprion akindynos (Barrier reef anemonefish) A. bicinctus (Two-band anemonefish) A. clarkii (Clark's anemonefish)...
two and twelve metres (six and forty feet) deep, mostly on reefflats, but also on upper reef slopes and in lagoons. Acropora millepora is a zooxanthellate...
discovered. The coral reef is a rough ring shape about six miles across and has two islands within, Sand Island and Green Island. Green Island is in the southeast...
used to be more abundant and occurred in large patches on some of the reefflats. It has declined significantly over time and only 3 colonies were found...
Forms elaborate piecemeal mats of normally green to turquoise polyps. They are often found on reefflats exposed to high light intensity and intermittently...
cavernosa are usually green in color and have a hollow structure that can eventually form into a cup shape. It is commonly found on reefflats, forming large...