It is most often found in association with reefs and coastal lagoons, sometimes in small schools.
An exchange network in salt from coastal lagoons some 80 Km away had also been established by 30000 years ago.
They are also found on coastal lagoons, the seashore, and sheltered ponds.
Barachois is a coastal lagoon separated from the ocean by a sand bar.
High humidity from coastal lagoons makes the climate even less bearable than it would be otherwise.
Its habitat types vary from coastal lagoons to montane forest.
It is the only coastal lagoon in California which does not have any roads or rail lines built across it.
Due to the gentle slope of the coast, coastal lagoons are shallow.
The coastal lagoons form part of an ecosystem important to caribou and many other Arctic mammals.
The microbes that live in this coastal lagoon have been recently described.