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Organisms growing on, in or moving through sand. (7) |
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Light producing, bioluminescent. (10) |
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An ornament at the end of a cord, made of strings of equal length; in fish, used, e.g., to describe the fins of Latimeria chalumnae. (6) |
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To artificially expose a fish, or other animal, to a pathogen. (9) |
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An x-ray plate, used to see internal characters such as vertebral counts. (10) |
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Referring to the side or directed toward the side or extending from the side; the opposite of medial. (7) |
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A major portion of the living environment of a particular region (such as a rain forest or wetland), characterized by its distinctive vegetation and maintained by local climatic conditions. (5) |
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Prefix meaning backwards. (5) |
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Japanese term for sliced fish, especially tuna, usually with soy sauce and green mustard; - served raw as a delicacy, eaten immediately after preparation. (7) |
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An accumulation of serous fluid in the cellular tissue or in any cavity of the body. (6) |
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In ichthyology a collection of fishes made from a locality; a subset of a population; a representative part of a larger unit used to study the properties of the whole. (6) |
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(pronounced "kash"). As a noun, a place for hiding something. As a verb, to hide or store food for later consumption. (5) |
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A coastal or intertidal salmon net in Scotland and England with the trap set across the outer end of a leader of netting thus forming a T shape. (1-3) |
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Fishes of the Family Pentacerotidae, Order Perciformes (perch-likes). See FishBase for more information on this Family. (10) |
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Fold of skin. (5) |
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In a broad sense 'freshwater' is used for all continental aquatic systems such as rivers and lakes. In a technical sense it refers to water with less than 0.5 grams per liter of total dissolved mineral salts. (10) |
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A long, narrow, and deep depression of the sea floor with relatively steep sides. (6) |
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Hooked at the tip. (8) |
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All the taxa in a clade preceding a major cladogenesis event. (4,5) |
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1) A small hollow, cylindrical structure, 2) an element of the fish kidney. (6) |
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A term covering developmental stages in the early life history of a fish between the time of hatching and transforming to a juvenile, the latter a miniature replica of the adult. (6) |
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Fish meat such as cod, pollack, porgy, gurnard etc. boiled, pickled into fibre and dried. (6) |
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Divided into two equal parts or lobes; often used in reference to the distal ends of cirri or teeth of fishes. (5) |
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A protein produced in living cells that speeds up a particular chemical reaction. (6) |
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Prefix meaning current, flowing. (4) |
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Prefix meaning half, partly. (4) |
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1)An indentation in a shoreline, may be small or long and narrow, 2)a short, narrow waterway connecting a bay or lagoon to a larger body of water, 3)an entry point for water. (5) |
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Any odd-numbered page of a book, on the right. Opposite of verso. (5) |
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