• the inshore marine fish Malabar jack (pictured) derives its name from Malabar in South India, but can be found in coastal areas as far apart as South Africa, Japan and Vanuatu?

Facts on topics related to Malabar trevally

Carangoides

• the exact species for which the fish genus Carangoides (C. orthogrammus pictured) was originally created is unknown?

Coral reef

• Apo Reef in Sablayan, Mindoro is the world's second-largest contiguous coral reef system and the largest in the Philippines?
• Charles R. Stelck proved that ancient coral reefs had once existed in the Arctic and that oil could be found there?
• Pigeon Island National Park (pictured) contains some of the best remaining coral reefs of Sri Lanka?
• the Delaware Basin in Texas contains fossilised coral reefs from the Permian era?
• the Hawai`i Institute of Marine Biology is the only research center in the world built on a coral reef?
• the Monkey River feeds the second largest barrier-reef complex in the world?

Krill

• after colonizing Antarctica, the Lobodontine seals rapidly diversified to include the only seal that feeds primarily on krill and the only seal that feeds primarily on the krill-eating seals?
• the krill species Euphausia crystallorophias was first described from specimens caught from a hole bored during Robert Falcon Scott's Discovery expedition?

Carangidae

• the Vadigo, a species of carangid fish, is believed to be expanding its range in the Mediterranean Sea?
• the Yellowspotted trevally is a species of inshore marine fish of the family Carangidae found in the Indo-Pacific region?

Shrimp

• 'Opaeka'a Falls (pictured) on the Hawaiian island of Kauai is named after the native freshwater shrimp ("rolling shrimp" in Hawaiian) that "roll" down the falls?
• Callianassa subterranea is a burrowing shrimp that ingests sediment particles and digests their organic coating?
• Palaemon serratus is the British Isles' largest native shrimp?
• the shrimp Periclimenes dardanicola resides on sea anemones on the shell of the hermit crab Dardanus pedunculatus, in one of the few associations between two decapods?

Australia

• "Gizzie" and "Slit" are two alternative common names for the Little Lorikeet of eastern Australia?
• "Heavy Harry", the only working example of the Victorian Railways H class (pictured), was the largest non-articulated steam locomotive ever built in Australia?
• 20-year-old Ryan Gregson is the current Australian record holder in men's 1500 metre run, having broken Simon Doyle's old mark from 1991?
• 67 Australian, Canadian, and New Zealand Article XV squadrons were formed during World War II from graduates of the British Commonwealth Air Training Plan?
• Adelaide was the first city in Australia to introduce horse trams and the last to discard them for more modern public transport?
• Air Chief Marshal Sir Charles Burnett was born in the United States to a Scottish father, educated in England and eventually became the Australian Chief of the Air Staff?
• Anglican archdeacon Kay Goldsworthy will be Australia's first woman bishop when she is consecrated on 22 May 2008?
• football midfielder Evan Berger was nominated for an informal Australia Day award by his local council for representing Australia in the national under-20 team?
• Australia has a National Public Toilet Map, allowing users to locate the 14,000 public toilets across the country to four decimal places of latitude and longitude?
• Australia's first uranium mine (pictured) opened in 1906 and initially produced radium for Marie Curie and Ernest Rutherford?

Ocean

• Humbug Mountain (pictured) is one of the tallest mountains in Oregon to rise directly from the ocean?
• the Russian fishing industry operates on the second longest coastline in the world, which gives it access to twelve seas in three oceans?
• the Doctorfish tang has the largest range of its genus, which includes 38 species from three oceans?