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  2. Butterflying - Wikipedia

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    Butterflying pork loin. Butterflying is a way of preparing meat, fish, or poultry for cooking by cutting it almost in two, but leaving the two parts connected; it is then often boned and flattened. [ 1 ]Spatchcocking is a specific method for butterflying poultry that involves removing the backbone, and spatchcock as a noun may refer to a bird ...

  3. Butterfly gardening - Wikipedia

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    Butterfly gardening provides a recreational activity to view butterflies interacting with the environment. Besides anthropocentric values of butterfly gardening, creating habitat reduces the impacts of habitat fragmentation and degradation. Habitat degradation is a multivariate issue; development, increased use of pesticides and herbicides ...

  4. Garfish - Wikipedia

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    The garfish is a long and slender fish with a laterally compressed body, and grows to about 50 to 75 cm (20 to 30 in) in length. The jaws are elongated and armed with sharp teeth. The pectoral, dorsal, and anal fins are situated well back on the body and the latter two are similar in appearance. Positioning the fins so far back gives greater ...

  5. Hyporhamphus ihi - Wikipedia

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    An illustration of Hyporhamphus ihi from 1875. The garfish is an unusual looking fish with many distinct features such as its elongated slender body, as well as its long lower jaw. The garfish typically grows to about 22 centimeters. [2] The colouring of the fish allows it to appear somewhat camouflaged due to it having a greenish blue upper ...

  6. Hyporhamphus melanochir - Wikipedia

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    Hyporhamphus melanochir, or Southern garfish or (in Australia) garfish, is a halfbeak garfish from the family Hemiramphidae. [2] It is found in southern Australian and New Zealand waters. [ 3 ] It is a very popular fish for recreational fishing and eating in Australia, where it is referred to simply as 'garfish' or 'gar'.

  7. Fish anatomy - Wikipedia

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    External anatomy of a bony fish (Hector's lanternfish): 1. operculum (gill cover), 2. lateral line, 3. dorsal fin, 4. adipose fin, 5. caudal peduncle, 6. caudal fin, 7. anal fin, 8. photophores, 9. pelvic fins (paired), 10. pectoral fins (paired) Internal anatomy of a bony fish. Fish anatomy is the study of the form or morphology of fish. It ...

  8. Longnose gar - Wikipedia

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    Longnose gar. Mark Catesby, The Green Gar Fish (Esox osseus), published 1731-1743. An eighteenth-century print with Linnaeus' original name for the longnose gar. The longnose gar (Lepisosteus osseus), also known as longnose garpike or billy gar, is a ray-finned fish in the family Lepisosteidae. The genus may have been present in North America ...

  9. Xenentodon cancila - Wikipedia

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    The freshwater needlefish is one of several of needlefish species kept in public and home aquaria. [6] It has been kept by European aquarists since 1910, [6] and was first bred in captivity at the Biological Station Wilhelminenberg, Austria in 1963. [4] Xenentodon cancila is generally considered quite a difficult species to maintain because of ...