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Black crappie. The black crappie ( Pomoxis nigromaculatus) is a freshwater fish found in North America, one of the two types of crappies. It is very similar to the white crappie ( P. annularis) in size, shape, and habits, except that it is darker, with a pattern of black spots. Alternate names for the species include calico bass, speck ...
Chaenobryttus gulosus (Cuvier, 1829) Chaenobryttus coronarius ( Bartram, 1791) The warmouth ( Lepomis gulosus) is a freshwater fish of the sunfish family ( Centrarchidae) that is found throughout the eastern United States. Other local names include molly, redeye, goggle-eye, red-eyed bream, and strawberry perch.
Rock bass. The rock bass ( Ambloplites rupestris ), also known as the rock perch, goggle-eye, red eye, and black perch, is a freshwater fish native to east-central North America. This red-eyed fish is a species of freshwater fish in the sunfish family ( Centrarchidae) of order Perciformes and can be distinguished from other similar species by ...
At one point, the annual crappie catch sold at fish markets in the United States was reported to be about 3 million pounds (1,400 t). [27] A commercial fishery for crappies existed at Reelfoot Lake in Tennessee until 2003. It was one of the few commercial fisheries for crappies in recent decades. [28] [29]
Pomoxys protacanthus Gill, 1865. The white crappie ( Pomoxis annularis) is a freshwater fish found in North America, one of the two species of crappies. [ 3] Alternate common names for the species include goldring, silver perch, [ 4] white perch and sac-a-lait. [ 3] USS Goldring is named for the fish.
The fish can grow to more than 30 feet long, and have large eyes and "foreboding" red spines in a crown-like cluster. Typically, these fish are deep-sea dwellers and thrive in waters that are the ...
Cyclopia (named after the Greek mythology character cyclopes ), also known as alobar holoprosencephaly, is the most extreme form of holoprosencephaly and is a congenital disorder (birth defect) characterized by the failure of the embryonic prosencephalon to properly divide the orbits of the eye into two cavities.
To see it, one must be in a dark room, with one eye closed; one must look straight ahead while moving a light back and forth in the field of the open eye. Then one should see the sixth Purkinje as a dimmer image moving in the opposite direction. The Purkinje tree is an image of the retinal blood vessels in one's own eye, first described by ...