Otoliths range in size from one-tenth of an inch to one inch long and are found in the heads of all fishes except sharks, lampreys and rays. |
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The freshwater sawfish, a ray, is related to stingrays, skates, sharks, and other fishes with cartilaginous skeletons. |
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Back in the days between leaving college and finding a real job, my friends and I drank like the proverbial fishes. |
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Most coral reef fishes have a bipartite life cycle, with a dispersing pelagic larval phase and a relatively sedentary reef resident phase. |
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Among vertebrates, only the cartilaginous fishes, lungfishes and amphibians possess exceptionally large C-values. |
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The microdesmids, or wormfishes, are elongate gobioid fishes that live in shallow waters of tropical and subtropical seas. |
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Preliminary results show wreckfish consumed predominantly squids and teleost fishes, while both Beryx species consumed mainly squid and shrimps. |
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Larger salmon eat a variety of fishes such as herring and alewives, smelts, capelin, small mackerel, sand lace, and small cod. |
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This entanglement of roots provides a safe nursery for hatchling sea fishes. |
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The wrymouths are slender, eel-like fishes, close relatives of the blennies but much larger. |
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Based on feeding habits, researchers broadly classify ray-finned fishes as herbivores, carnivores, omnivores, zooplanktivores and detrivores. |
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The three species of endangered fishes are allis shad, Killarney shad and pollan. |
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Biologists could examine the many living animals that represented stages in the transition from the invertebrates to the earliest jawless fishes. |
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Several other species of marine fishes spawn on beaches, although actual emergence of adults from water is rare. |
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Included among these vertebrates are sharks, bony fishes, amphibians, turtles, lizards, crocodiles, and dinosaurs. |
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Discussions of pectoral fin swimming in fishes have largely focused on the benefits of the fins during hovering, slow swimming and maneuvering. |
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Rays and skates primarily feed on molluscs, crustaceans, worms and occasionally smaller fishes. |
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Among vertebrate classes, fishes exhibit by far the greatest variability in competitive and cooperative behaviors in male reproduction. |
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They are reef fishes that not only rely on the corals for habitat but also food. |
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The depletion of coral reef habitats and marine aquarium fishes has presented a relatively new market in aquaculture. |
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A friend of mine who fishes a very easy water has in the past few weeks landed 98 carp. |
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Tooth morphology in this selection of mesopelagic fishes is quite diverse suggesting that their feeding strategies might be diverse as well. |
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Acanthurids are diurnal fishes, seeking cover at night, and most are herbivorous except one genus, Naso, which is planktivorous. |
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On the whole, it's a gift in the hands of those who were fed up of purchasing the typical type of aquaria with just water and fishes. |
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Other studies have begun to examine habitat use by estuarine fishes in more detail including zoogeographic and temporal comparisons. |
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Hove et al. found that box fishes exhibit some of the smallest amplitude recoil moments known among fishes. |
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Juvenile Nile perch feed on invertebrates when small then switch to fishes with growth. |
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You have to repeat this for two weeks if you are planning to introduce exotic fishes and plants. |
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Four hundred million years ago armor-plated fishes, the placoderms, swam along the sandy floor of oceans that once covered much of Australia. |
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But, unlike modern fishes, most thelodont squamation, especially in the cephalopectoral region, was not imbricating. |
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If true, he said, the evolution of this mating preference might help explain the evolution of swords in male swordtail fishes. |
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Many feeding behaviors found in cichlids are unique among freshwater fishes. |
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Within bony fishes, non-neopterygians have relatively smaller brains than those in the vast majority of teleosts. |
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The Kelp Forest Exhibit is home to these fishes as well as red roman, red stumpnose, galjoen and white stumpnose amongst others. |
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In Amia, as in many actinopterygian fishes, the ceratobranchials do much of the mundane work and heavy lifting. |
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Especially well adapted to low or nonexistent light levels are several new species of electric fishes and catfishes. |
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Insurance companies offered policies to cover cattle, poultry, sheep, goats, horses, elephants, dogs, ducks and fishes. |
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Further evidence that the several instances of beach spawning in fishes arose by different mechanisms comes from puffers and sticklebacks. |
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Such video techniques have been particularly effective in female mate choice studies in fishes, including guppies, sticklebacks, and swordtails. |
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He plieth his work, and hopeth that God at the last will give him fishes, albeit he deferreth a time. |
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Among these fishes the carangids and the ribbon fishes could be effectively utilised for surimi production in our country. |
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The ichthyophagy increased with size and in fishes 40 cm and larger, cannibalism was outstanding. |
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In reptiles, amphibians, and fishes, it has long been contended that the morphologically recognizable sex chromosomes do not exist. |
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As is generally known, one can distinguish between macrosmatic and microsmatic species of fishes. |
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There is more to keeping coldwater fishes than the traditional goldfish bowl and a tub of ant's eggs. |
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When the loops closed, both sets of men struggled like the Lord's Apostles to pull the draught of fishes ashore. |
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This is the pattern seen in the dorsal fins of fishes, in Dimetrodon and among iguanid lizards. |
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The labroid fishes are pectoral fin locomotor specialists and a model for examining fin-based swimming. |
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In the intestine there is a spiral valve, like that in the dogfish, which is not present in more advanced bony fishes. |
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In Florida, the diet was comprised mainly of fishes, with gizzard shad, bullhead catfish, and small bluegill particularly common. |
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The Galeaspida are a strange group of armored fishes possessing a massive, flattened, one-piece bony shield. |
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They use their vibrissae as sensing organs underwater to monitor the movements of fishes and other prey. |
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Some fishes seek to compensate at low swimming speeds by extending their fins to increase area and hence the trimming force. |
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Jawless fishes and placoderms were also affected, although many placoderm lineages survived quite happily until the end Devonian. |
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Snorkelers can find brain coral, sea grasses, sea stars, stingrays, fishes of every color and even sluggish, benign nurse sharks. |
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Juvenile rockfish that reside in kelp beds are often eaten by many fishes and other marine animals. |
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Because spearfishing is forbidden, there are many reef fishes in all sizes, and they are not shy. |
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Perhaps today's corporate entities are little more than the fishes that have crawled out of the ocean. |
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Considered an excellent rainbow trout fishery, the lake also fishes well for Dolly Vardens during the Sockeye Run in August. |
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After a light breakfast I studied a draft of a paper that we had just submitted on the new fossil crossopterygian fishes of the Aztec Siltstone. |
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Like frogfishes, these grotesque-looking fishes are anglers that use a modified dorsal spine extending just above the mouth to lure prey. |
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Some of these studies have focused on live-bearing fishes of the family Poeciliidae. |
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All locations, irrespective of the degree of wave exposure, may be subject to numerous small, strong, precise bites by fishes with small gapes. |
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Butterflyfishes are one of the most popular tropical fishes with divers and aquarists. |
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Comparable studies of fishes and other aquatic vertebrates are scarce, despite a wealth of neontological data. |
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Such fishes can offset costs of transport using burst-and-glide behavior when swimming in the water column and ground effect near the substratum. |
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Second, in most basal ray-finned fishes such as sturgeon and trout a single dorsal fin is present and is supported by flexible fin rays. |
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Most ray-finned fishes have keen hearing ability and sound production is common but not universal. |
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Guillemots often forage solitarily, or in small groups, and they primarily select nearshore demersal fishes for their chicks. |
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In my search across the internet, I have yet to come across anyone who fly fishes for squawfish. |
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With its large mouth and torpedo-shaped body, the Colorado squawfish is an efficient predator on other fishes. |
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Precisely how fishes and other animals recognize kin is hotly debated in the scientific community. |
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Shallow intraspecific gene genealogies characterize many marine fishes although sister taxa often show considerable genetic divergence. |
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Vic had learned to drive at fourteen, from his old man, and had picked it up as easily as fishes learn to swim. |
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However, the use of nares to detect pheromones is probably the most important type of chemoreception in fishes. |
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Many ancient Chinese artifacts such as vases, bottles and tableware featured fishes and pomegranates known for their numerous fruit seeds. |
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There is a concern that weatherfish could be predators of native fishes or parasite and disease vectors. |
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This may have made it the most easily accessible prey for predators in the nekton, such as fishes. |
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This is an important spawning and nursery ground for many important pelagic fishes such as clupeoids, horse mackerel, scomber and saury. |
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When alive these fishes are a beautiful blue tinged grey on the back with a whitish belly, but this colour fades to a dull dark grey after death. |
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The book is of interest to ichthyologists, general field ecologists, in fact, everyone with an interest in the fishes of the state! |
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Sticklebacks are one of the most studied fishes by ichthyologists and behaviorists. |
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Axial movements in tadpoles are regulated by a diverse array of muscle activity in a manner similar to anguilliform fishes. |
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The family also boasts the fastest-swimming fishes in the world, and bluefin tunas are probably the largest of all bony fishes. |
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American paddlefish are predators of zooplankton and prey to other fishes, birds, and humans. |
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Swimming in salamanders is similar to the undulatory swimming described for elongate fishes. |
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Carina grinned as she watched the fishes shimmer and shine in the glowing moonlight. |
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The chromaffin tissue is located mainly in the anterior region of the kidney in teleostean fishes. |
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He owns the largest Tilapia fish farm in the Philippines with 10 million fishes. |
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Several taxa were estuarine and peripheral, and the rest, small fishes sold fresh or fried, were reportedly from local rivers. |
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One species of bacterium sickens cattle, for example, while another attacks frogs, fishes, and other cold-blooded animals. |
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The kissing gourami is a peaceful species that should be housed with fishes of similar size and temperament. |
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In the biblical account, Christ miraculously feeds thousands with just a little bread and a few fishes. |
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Bean products, fishes, milk, walnuts, Chinese cabbages and tomatoes are very helpful in maintaining healthy eyes. |
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That is why on channels and streams, one usually fishes for sheatfish, carp, perch, bream, crucian, etc. |
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Illegally introduced warm-water fishes flourished in the impoundment, presumably replacing the native species. |
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Six medallions with Greek crosses, fishes, and doves appear to float above the waves. |
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But choppy waters subside, and the sharks and the little fishes and the roosters should be aware of this. |
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There also tends to be more current here, preferred by some of the larger reef fishes and the pelagics. |
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Of the fishes, several pelagic species were found in many of the habitats sampled. |
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Water gardens are ponds having water falls, pond plants and pond life like exotic fishes. |
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Azure damsel fishes, only an inch or so in length, capture all possible shades of blue in one sleek swift body. |
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Reef fishes are egg-layers, and the eggs are externally fertilized by the male parent. |
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Dominant fishes include representatives of families that are typical of hard bottom, such as congers, moras, scorpionfishes, and wreckfishes. |
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The diet of Atlantic wreckfish consists mainly of large ocean cephalopods, crustaceans, and other bottom-dwelling fishes. |
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The upper reaches of the deep ocean contain many bathypelagic fishes with a capacious, gas-filled swimbladder. |
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After bony fishes and mammals diverged about 400 MYA, class II genes increased enormously in the mammalian lineage. |
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The adaptation of vertical eyes in smaller fishes may be a response to higher predations on smaller fishes. |
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Tadpoles, like most fishes, swim by lateral undulations of the body axis during which waves of bending pass caudally as the animals move forward. |
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This shark feeds primarily on bony fishes such as parrot, trigger, squirrel, surgeon, damsel and goat fishes as well as eels. |
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Those produced by the hypochordal lobe of the caudal fin of selachians and early bony fishes have been studied in detail. |
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The collection will be of enormous interest to anyone who shoots, hunts or fishes. |
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The lateral line system of fishes and many amphibians comprises lines of mechanoreceptive neuromasts distributed over the head and trunk. |
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There are numerous other examples of symbiosis, mutualism, commensalism and parasitism between ray-finned fishes and other groups. |
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Two fishes swimming in different directions is the zodiac symbol of Pisces. |
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Evolutionists sought the ancestry of the tetrapods among the lobe-finned fishes. |
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Distributing the bread of life by preaching Christ to sinners is a greater work than feeding five thousand with loaves and fishes. |
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The anemone fish shelters within the waving fronds of the anemone host, enticing other small fishes into the anemone's trap. |
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The family Scombridae, the mackerels, tunas, and bonitos, includes some of the world's most popular food and sport fishes. |
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Northeast Utilities Environmental Laboratory staff list it among fishes they have trawled in Long Island Sound. |
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Flood control projects also endanger lowland streams, home to rare freshwater fishes. |
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The small springs that harbor small populations of native pupfishes and other small fishes. |
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When a humpback is corralling herring and other fishes, the net may be 150 feet wide. |
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Sequential hermaphroditism is common in marine fishes, with protogyny predominating. |
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In many fishes, it is the only structural element in the oral jaws that moves during jaw opening and closing. |
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In the teleost fishes studied to date, the male morphs differ in circulating androgen levels. |
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Most teleost fishes possess a complex set of intrinsic caudal fin muscles that have only rarely been studied experimentally. |
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In most fossil coelacanths, the swimbladder appears to be ossified and, consequently, these fishes were probably confined to shallow water. |
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One is a pocket guide to the fishes of the world, but I have just finished The Old Man and the Sea in Polish and need no more fish this week. |
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Sponges are preyed upon by gastropods, polychaetes, asteroids, echinoids, turtles, and fishes. |
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The Lord provides manna in the desert, loaves and fishes for the multitude, our daily bread, his presence in communion. |
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The genus Belodontichthys dinema was proposed by Bleeker in his revision of siluroid fishes. |
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Some fishes use mineral grains from the environment for this purpose, and a few taxa manufacture calcium phosphate otoliths. |
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They feed on small bony fishes, snails, worms, shrimps, clams, abalone, and crabs. |
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Some layers were quite rich in small fish remains, like the interesting double-pronged sharks' teeth and the fin-spines of acanthodian fishes. |
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Also called balloonfish, spiny puffers belong to the Tetraodontiformes, an order of fishes known for their strange structures and odd behaviors. |
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At fish-cleaning stations, cleaner fish nibble the parasites from the gills and mouths of fishes much larger than they are. |
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Cold, foamy water hushed over the rocks, and the gills of the fishes that swam in it caressed the rocks. |
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In fishes and some amphibians, the slits bear gills and are used for gas exchange. |
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The silvery sheen displayed by many pelagic fishes is an example of structural color. |
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The diet of Nile perch consists of fishes, insects, crustacea and mollusks. |
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Shrike is a colleague of sparrow, but has a curvirostral bill at the pointed end and sharp nails so as to catch insects, frogs and fishes easily. |
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Any comparative neuroanatomist would be hard pressed to list the neural specializations for feeding in ray-finned fishes or flight in birds. |
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While blennies are primarily marine fishes, some members of the family occur in estuaries or in fresh water, for example, in lakes in Italy. |
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The data set included sequences of genes from mammals, birds, amphibians, coelacanths, lungfishes, ray-finned fishes, and cartilaginous fishes. |
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A few freshwater fishes may occur in the least saline parts of the estuary. |
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The company fishes for snoek, kabeljou and calamari, and exports to the Ukraine and Cape Town. |
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A third group of fishes, the lungfishes or fishes that can breathe on land, survive today as freshwater fishes in Queensland. |
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Their diet includes squid, skates, ratfish, rockfish, and octopus, as well as pelagic fishes such as mackerel and sardines. |
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He fishes into a battered black holdall, pulls out the manifesto and triumphantly taps his forefinger on the table. |
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They are small fishes, growing up to 25 cm long, excepting the Greater argentine, Argentina silus, which reaches 70 cm. |
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Atlantic spade fishes and black durgons patrol over the reef. |
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Bullfrogs, unlike native frogs, are unpalatable to the non-native fishes. |
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Scientists from around the world will gather this week to discuss the ability of members of a family of fishes called gadids to adapt to human and environmental pressures. |
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Of fishes that have sunk to the lake floor, scavengers, feeding on the top surface of the decaying fish, cause the dispersal of bones to be less orderly, and breakage of bone. |
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Such a mechanism would have been analogous to expansion of the buccal and gular cavities of fishes and many tetrapods by the hyobranchial muscles acting on the hyoid arches. |
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Stomiiformes is an order of deep-sea ray-finned fishes of very diverse morphology, including dragonfishes, lightfishes, marine hatchetfishes, viperfishes, and loosejaws. |
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This may the basis for many species of coral fishes refuging in reef structures at the height of the ebb and flood, and swimming and feeding around slack tides. |
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The frigate bird fishes the easy way, if you like your fish predigested. |
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Although a small number of bony fishes have brains of the same relative size as those in agnathans, most bony fishes have considerably larger brains for the same body size. |
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While I was in the lake, little fishes would nibble softly on my toes, beside me slid a beautiful California king snake and a bird swooped down to his prey. |
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These fish do not have gills or opercula like most bony fishes. |
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Most scombrids are important food, commercial, and sport fishes. |
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Instead, he fishes out a square ice cream bar wrapped in silver foil. |
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Catsharks occur around the globe in warm temperate seas, and therefore are a consistent predator on populations of squid, crustaceans, cephalopods, and small fishes. |
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The lateral line system is a series of sensory organs, usually appearing in a line or series of lines on the sides and heads of fishes and larval amphibians. |
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A small beginning has been made to developing the theory of metapopulations of demersal fishes, frequently in the context of reef fish management. |
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The ray-finned fishes would seem a little more familiar than the placoderms, having scales instead of armor plates, with a look of the moray eel to them. |
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The spike-tailed paradise fish is a labyrinth fish, and like all such fishes they extract atmospheric oxygen with the help of a vessel-lined cavity above their gill arches. |
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The fishes fell into the calcareous sediment at the bottom where they were preserved, some with fine detail of the scales and the fleshy parts of the body. |
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The miracle of the loaves and fishes was a card trick by comparison. |
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The CD also contains a photo gallery of 54 ornamental fishes, especially the attractive and colourful varieties like Scarlet banded barb and Rosy barb. |
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Among coastal river otters in this region, sociality could be explained by the benefits obtained from cooperative foraging on high-quality schooling pelagic fishes. |
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While blue whales may occasionally feed on pelagic crabs and small fishes, their diet is almost exclusively euphausiid shrimps commonly called krill. |
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Under such conditions, we predict that more social otters would have diets higher in better quality pelagic fishes, compared with otters that exhibit low levels of sociality. |
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All bass are fine game fishes, with tournaments being held regularly. |
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All decapod crustaceans and fishes were identified and enumerated, a representative subsample was measured and then all animals were returned to the system. |
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Fly fishers in the salt water environment need something entirely different to their freshwater counterpart on the chalk stream, as does the angler who fishes big reservoirs. |
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Extensive survey data show that the max values of visual pigments of mesopelagic marine fishes are more blue-shifted than those of shallow-water species. |
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His most famous miracle was making a few loaves and fishes feed a multitude. |
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The ray-fins include the thousands of familiar sport and commercial fishes, but of the lobe-fins, only eight species survive, six lungfishes and two coelacanths. |
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Anyone aged 12 or over who fishes for salmon, trout, freshwater fish or eels in England or Wales must have an Environment Agency rod fishing licence. |
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This finding supports the prediction of Kuletz, who suggested that adults that deliver mostly low-lipid fishes are less likely to fledge a second chick. |
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There is considerable diversity of tail shape within the teleost fishes. |
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This distance is called the metacentric height, which takes negative values when the center of mass is above the center of buoyancy, as is common among fishes. |
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For me, I'd rather leave the fishes to enjoy their lives undisturbed. |
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Their diet consists primarily of bony fishes and small sharks, including young bull sharks, but they have been known to feast on everything from seabirds to dogs. |
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It will be with the support of fishermen of Lakshadweep, who use poles and lines to catch fish, that the tagging will be done and the fishes released to the sea. |
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Most of the increase in number of centers in ray-finned fishes also occurs in the gallium, where three subdivisions can be recognized in bichirs and some 13 in teleosts. |
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For perciform fishes, the pectoral fin and tail are known to play important roles in propulsion and there is now a substantial literature on the function of these fins. |
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He published over 120 papers on diverse groups of fishes and topics. |
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She then offered to help him carry the icebox where the fishes were. |
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The five species and subspecies of Sardinops yield roughly one-fourth of the catch of all clupeoid fishes, making it one of the most productive of all clupeoid genera. |
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The ecological role of cleaner wrasses of the Indo-Pacific region provides a good example of the complexity of seemingly mutualistic relationships between fishes. |
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These small to medium-size fish are found in tropical waters around the world, especially the Caribbean and the Indo-Pacific, and are important food fishes in some regions. |
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Catsharks, like other elasmobranchs, have a high sensitivity to electric fields created by the movement of water, of other fishes, and even the movement of the earth. |
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This site has yielded a relatively well-preserved and diverse nearshore marine vertebrate fauna consisting of sharks, rays, bony fishes, reptiles, and whales. |
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For example, the long jaws of gar and needlefish arose independently and give these disparate taxa the most velocity specialized mandibles yet measured in fishes. |
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Actually, the larvae of most coral reef fishes are endowed with good swimming abilities, good sensory systems, and sophisticated behavior that is quite flexible. |
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Snakes employ shivering thermogenesis, which acts to warm their eggs, amphipods actively ventilate the brood pouch, and fishes fan to increase water circulation. |
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The drum family consists primarily of oceanic continental shelf fishes. |
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Migrations and the related amphibiotic nature of migrating species are the most important features of phylogenetic adaptation in certain species of fishes and Agnatha. |
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Specific features of the ectotherm cardiac cell including that of fishes may be missed, since generalisations are often based on features of the mammalian myocardium. |
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The richness of component communities is due, in part, to the relatively high degree of vagility associated with marine fishes, or perhaps to the vagility of the parasite's intermediate hosts. |
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Thus, each of the branchial arches, the arches which actually function as respiratory arches in fishes, has an epibranchial and a ceratobranchial. |
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This caudal fin structure contrasts with the externally symmetrical homocercal morphology present in most teleost fishes such as bluegill sunfish. |
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In ray-finned fishes, however, the pallium thickens and everts, so that the initial most dorsal pallial segment comes to lie lateral to the remaining pallium. |
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In addition, a pair of antennal spines flare upon attack, transforming the larva into a prickly ball, difficult for small-mouthed planktivorous fishes to swallow. |
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These are miniature jaw-like structures that come from a free-swimming worm-like animal, actually more closely related to fishes than to any of the other invertebrates. |
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Everywhere in fresh waters, except in Australia, species of little cyprinoids or characoids are the principal forage fishes on which larger predators feed. |
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The anemonefishes provide some protection and bring in sources of nourishment for their anemone hosts, and some groups of juvenile damselfishes clean other fishes. |
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Herbivorous fishes posses specialized organs, such as extended guts, pharyngeal mills and gizzards, that allow them to exploit various reef plants and algae. |
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Fortunately for libertarian-minded voters, Palin and Cruz are hardly the only fishes in the sea. |
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They seem to prefer pinnacles of rock that are home for abundant populations of smaller fishes, and that have some suitable shelter site such as a large cave or crevice. |
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One consequence was that the crossopterygian fishes were dethroned from their privileged position as ancestors. |
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But catfishes, known more formally as the order Siluriformes, are a vast and diverse order of fishes, with many seafaring species. |
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The Devonian also saw the rise of the first labyrinthodonts, which was a transitional form between fishes and amphibians. |
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Ecological relations in the evolution of acanthopterygian fishes in warm-temperate communities of the northeastern Pacific. |
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Predatory percid freshwater fishes such as walleye are prized by anglers in most of the United States and Canada. |
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The Cenozoic world has seen great diversification of bony fishes, frogs, birds and mammals. |
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Anyone who imports, farms, depurates and fishes for Pacific oysters should take precautions to prevent the spread of OsHV-1 ovar. |
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Temperature, salinity, and southern limits of three species of Pacific cottid fishes. |
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At mussel refuges, the risk to introduce pathogens is compounded by the need for host fishes for glochidia transformation. |
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In addition to these, there are two classes of extinct armoured fishes, the Placodermi and the Acanthodii. |
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Bony fishes were represented by a ceratohyal element of Pachyrhizodus caninus and bone fragments of Bananogmius cf. |
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Pituitary glands were removed from the mature fishes and toads, respectively. |
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About 43 species of freshwater fishes are known from Trinidad, including the well known guppy. |
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Along with the tambaqui, the pirarucu is one of the most sought-after food fishes in the varzea. |
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Several other state native fishes have been discovered since Smith's comprehensive summary of the state's ichthyofauna. |
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Fish vision shows adaptation to their visual environment, for example deep sea fishes have eyes suited to the dark environment. |
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Medium size pelagic fishes include trevally, barracuda, flying fish, bonito, mahi mahi and coastal mackerel. |
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In this way they are closer to mesopelagic fishes than bathopelagic fishes. |
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They studied pufferfish young, or larvae, which begin life with normal conical teeth, taking hundreds of snapshots of the fishes developing. |
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B and T lymphocytes bearing immunoglobulins and T cell receptors, respectively, are found in all jawed fishes. |
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The bodies of deep water benthic fishes are muscular with well developed organs. |
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But if the pond contained a total of 120 fish from three different species, it would be said to contain three fishes. |
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In deep waters, the fishes of the demersal zone are active and relatively abundant, compared to fishes of the bathypelagic zone. |
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Cod is the common name for the genus Gadus of demersal fishes, belonging to the family Gadidae. |
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The black swallower, with its distensible stomach, is notable for its ability to swallow, whole, bony fishes ten times its mass. |
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The stoplight loosejaw is also one of the few fishes that produce red bioluminescence. |
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Most deep sea pelagic fishes belong to their own orders, suggesting a long evolution in deep sea environments. |
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As a group, epipelagic fishes form the most valuable fisheries in the world. |
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Modes of reproduction in fishes range from heterochronal to isochronal strategies. |
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As well as the fishes being overexploited the benthic communities were destroyed by the trawling gear. |
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The most abundant fishes in the Benguela system are Sardinops and Engraulis. |
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The tadpoles also exude noxious substances which deter fishes from eating them but not the great crested newt. |
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Birthing pools are for moms who are fools, And for fishes that swim in the deep. |
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Intraspecific biological groups of acipenserine fishes and their reproduction in the lower regions of rivers with regulated flows. |
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Along with other members of the subclass Chondrostei, they are unique among bony fishes because the skeleton is almost entirely cartilaginous. |
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The placement and relationships of the atherinoid fishes are still in dispute. |
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Rays are the largest group of cartilaginous fishes, with well over 600 species in 26 families. |
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Sharks and rays are both cartilaginous fishes which can be contrasted with bony fishes. |
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A preliminary review of the Indo-Pacific gobiid fishes of the genus Gnatholepis. |
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Breeding sounds of male Padogobius nigricans with suggestions for further evolutionary study of vocal behaviour in gobioid fishes. |
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Infrequently sighted fishes included those in the families Pholidae, Cottidae, Pleuronectidae, and others. |
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The most frequently wounded fishes were non-native American shad, subyearling Chinook salmon, shiner perch, and Pacific herring. |
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Two new species of damselfishes, with comments on the validity of two additional pomacentrid fishes. |
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Presumably, mosquitofish are like other secondary-division freshwater fishes, in that their blood is isosmotic with seawater diluted to 7-10 ppt. |
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The gnathostomes almost entirely replaced the agnaths, presumably because they were more effective fishes. |
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Och, murther! faix, some spell my pipe bewishes, I've played a wail and raised the little fishes. |
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The acanthocephalan genus Neoechinorhynchus in the catostomid fishes of North America, with descriptions of two new species. |
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Pelagic fish stocks are considered fully fishes or overfished, with sardines south of Cape Bojador the notable exception. |
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A review of the salmonoid fishes of the Great Lakes with notes on the whitefishes of other regions. |
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Observations on the ecology of epinepheline and lutjanid fishes of the Society Islands, with emphasis on food habits. |
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Other fishes eaten include rohu, butterfish, catfish, tilapia and barramundi. |
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However, in some species, mate choice is primarily by males, as in some fishes of the family Syngnathidae. |
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Ancient divergences and recent connections in two tropical Atlantic reef fishes Epinephelus adscensionis and Rypticus saponaceous. |
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Eurypterids, giant ravenous sea scorpions, and other invertebrate predators hunted fishes. |
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Barry fishes two whole lobworms for eels but cuts them in half so they are shorter in a bid to cut down on missed runs. |
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A study of the vertebral column and median fin osteology in gobioid fishes with comments on gobioid relationships. |
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He does most of his fishing now in New York Bay for stripers and fly fishes or for trout in the Catskills. |
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In the first stage, the individual teeth grew at exactly the same time and in the same positions as in other bony fishes. |
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Only long-liners please, no seiners, because these vessels catch all fishes, small and big, alike. |
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Many marine fishes enter productive estuarine habitats to forage on abundant zooplankton, meiofauna, molluscs, crustaceans and fishes. |
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Dubai Municipality released 70,000 fingerlings of Sobaity and Sha'am fishes in Mamzar sea, in a conservation project. |
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Students built three ponds to raise rare Chiricahua leopard frogs and endangered fishes, Yaqui chub and Gila topminnow. |
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Gapers constitute a family of small bony fishes of tropical and subtropical IndoPacific origin. |
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Thornback rays fed mainly upon fishes and reptauts, but also upon polychaetes, mysids, natant crustaceans, isopods, and cephalopods. |
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Cartilaginous fish, which today include sharks, rays, and ratfish, diverged from the bony fishes more than 420 million years ago. |
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The cyprinodont fishes of the Death Valley system of eastern California and southwestern Nevada. |
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South American cyprinodont fishes allied to Cynolebias with the description of a new species of Austrofundulus from Venezuela. |
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Many fossils are found within the rocks, including early fishes, arthropods and plants. |
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Thousands of Mahashir fishes and Siver Carp were recently introduced in Naini Lake to restore its aquatic life. |
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Rare fossils include an annelid worm, two crabs, a spiny lobster, a ratfish, a ray, unidentified bony fishes, and reptiles reported here. |
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First off, there was that troubling day in the desert when Jesus softheadedly multiplied loaves and fishes and fed 5,000 people. |
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Canthaxanthin is still the color of choice for providing a red tone in egg yolks and in the pigmentation of salmonid fishes and shrimp. |
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Fenton, in order 'to reform this Inordinacy of his Desires', tells the boy a story about three little fishes. |
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The two groups of bony fishes, the actinopterygii and sarcopterygii, evolved and became common. |
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After this, the Greek knowledge of sharks and other cartilaginous fishes was lost until the Renaissance. |
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As mentioned, the artisanal trawl fleet fishes within the 6-fm isobath in the Gulf of Paria. |
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Life histories of two species of catostomid fishes in Sixteenmile Lake, British Columbia, with particular reference to inlet stream spawning. |
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Habitually, at low tide most fishes of the intertidal zone are concentrated in tidepools. |
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Gobioid fishes of the families Gob-iidae, Periophthalmidae, Trypauchenidae, Taenioididae, and Kraemeriidae of the Western Indian Ocean. |
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His lab focuses on the diversity, evolution and conservation of fishes with an emphasis on gobioid fish systematics. |
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A functional approach to ecomorphological patterns of feeding in cottid fishes. |
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The capacity for selfing in these fishes has apparently persisted for at least several hundred thousand years. |
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Members of the family Cynoglossidae, the tonguefishes are for the most part too small to be of much interest as food fishes. |
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Ovarian morphology and early embryology of the pediculate fishes Antennarius and Histrio. |
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The chimaeroid fishes of the Philippine Islands with description of a new species. |
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The chimaeroid fishes of the Philippine Islands, with description of a new species. |
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