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D. vexillum can grow on most hard substrates, including cobble, boulders, and artificial structures including boats, dock pilings, and aquaculture equipment. It can also grow over other organisms, including sessile invertebrates, algae, and eelgrass. [7] Its appearance has given rise to the common names of sea vomit or marine vomit.
On the epidermis, taste buds are situated on dermal papillae, small ridges of folded skin that increase the surface area of the skin and the total number of taste buds that can be concentrated on the barbel. [2] Concentrations of taste buds vary from species to species, with bullhead catfish having 25 buds in a square millimeter of barbel skin. [3]
Edwardsiella ictaluri (also known as enteric septicaemia of catfish, hole in the head disease [2] and ESC) is a member of the family Hafniaceae. The bacterium is a short, gram negative , pleomorphic rod with flagella.
The fish's suckermouth, with its fleshy lips, is located in an inferior position at the bottom of its head, as the fish obtains its food from bottom surfaces. [5] The white sucker is often mistaken for different species of suckers and redhorses , but can be distinguished by the complete lateral line system containing 55–85 small scales. [ 6 ]
Catfish traps include "slat traps," long wooden traps with an angled entrance, and wire hoop traps. Typical bait for these traps includes rotten cheese and dog food. Gafftopsail catfish are good eating; the red lateral line should be removed to prevent "muddy taste"; however in gafftopsails taken from southern Florida mangrove estuaries, this ...
In Romanian cuisine, the milt of carp and other fresh water fish is called lapți (from the Latin word lactes) and is usually fried. In Russian cuisine , herring milt ( молока , moloka ) is pickled the same way as the rest of the fish, but eaten separately, sometimes combined with pickled herring roe.
Asian carp is an informal grouping of several species of cyprinid freshwater fishes native to Eurasia, commonly referring to the four East Asian species silver carp, bighead carp, grass carp (a.k.a. white amur) and black carp (a.k.a. black amur), [note 1] which were introduced to North America during the 1970s and now regarded as invasive in the United States.
Scaphism (from Greek σκάφη, meaning "boat"), [1] also known as the boats, is reported by Plutarch in his Life of Artaxerxes as an ancient Persian method of execution.He describes the victim being trapped between two small boats, one inverted on top of the other, with limbs and head sticking out, feeding them and smearing them with milk and honey, and allowing them to fester and be ...