{"id":25101,"date":"2019-06-14T12:30:27","date_gmt":"2019-06-14T17:30:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/?p=25101"},"modified":"2019-06-14T12:30:27","modified_gmt":"2019-06-14T17:30:27","slug":"word-of-the-day-481","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2019\/06\/14\/word-of-the-day-481\/","title":{"rendered":"Word Of The Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Cryptobenthic<\/em>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<ol>\n<li>Of\u00a0<a title=\"fish\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wiktionary.org\/wiki\/fish\">fish<\/a>: both\u00a0<a title=\"benthic\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wiktionary.org\/wiki\/benthic\">benthic<\/a>\u00a0(living on or near the seafloor) and\u00a0<a title=\"cryptic\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wiktionary.org\/wiki\/cryptic\">cryptic<\/a> (hiding in crevices, or camouflaged).\u00a0<em>[<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wiktionary.org\/wiki\/cryptobenthic\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>Wiktionary<\/strong><\/a>]<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Noted in &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscientist.com\/article\/2204346-the-tiniest-fish-are-the-most-important-for-healthy-coral-reefs\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><em>The tiniest fish are the most important for healthy coral reefs<\/em><\/a>,&#8221; Michael Le Page, NewScientist (1 June 2019):<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8230; Simon Brandl has been studying \u201ccryptobenthic\u201d reef fish that are less than 50 millimetres long as adults \u2013 basically, the ones you don\u2019t see when snorkelling or diving on a reef. When he looked at surveys of plankton near reefs around the world, he was surprised to discover that 70 per cent of the fish larvae were of these cryptobenthic species.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cryptobenthic: Of\u00a0fish: both\u00a0benthic\u00a0(living on or near the seafloor) and\u00a0cryptic (hiding in crevices, or camouflaged).\u00a0[Wiktionary] Noted in &#8220;The tiniest fish are the most important for healthy coral reefs,&#8221; Michael Le Page, NewScientist (1 June 2019): &#8230; Simon Brandl has been studying \u201ccryptobenthic\u201d reef fish that are less than 50 millimetres long \u2026 <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2019\/06\/14\/word-of-the-day-481\/\"> Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr; <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25101","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25101","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25101"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25101\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25102,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25101\/revisions\/25102"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25101"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25101"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25101"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}