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Morris Fishbein (July 22, 1889 – September 27, 1976) was an American physician and editor of the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) from 1924 to 1950. Ira Rutkow's Seeking the Cure: A History of Medicine in America provides a brief overview of Fishbein's influence on American medicine during the Interwar period .
The Arctic cisco (Coregonus autumnalis), also known as Arctic omul (Russian: Омуль), is an anadromous species of freshwater whitefish that inhabits the Arctic parts of Siberia especially Yenisey Gulf.
The Acadian redfish (Sebastes fasciatus), also known as the Atlantic redfish, Acadian rockfish, or Labrador redfish, is a species of marine ray-finned fish belonging to the subfamily Sebastinae, the rockfishes, part of the family Scorpaenidae. It is native to the deep waters of the northwestern Atlantic. [3] [4] [5]
Tautog have many adaptations to life in and around rocky areas. They have thick, rubbery lips and powerful jaws. The backs of their throats contain a set of teeth resembling molars. Together, these are used to pick and crush prey such as mollusks and crustaceans. Their skin also has a rubbery quality with a heavy slime covering, which helps to ...
The reef butterflyfish lives on rocky and coral reefs [2] to depths of 60 metres (200 ft). [1] Its compressed body means that it can forage by darting in and out of the coral, the small, protractile mouth is a further adaptation to finding food within the coral.
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The Amazon molly (Poecilia formosa) is a freshwater fish native to the warm waters of northeastern Mexico and the southern parts of the U.S. state of Texas. [1] [3] It reproduces through gynogenesis, and essentially all individuals are females.
The fish has tightly packed melanosomes allowing its skin to absorb 99.95% of light of wavelengths common in its habitat. [ 4 ] [ 5 ] It has been found at depths between 500 m (1,600 ft) and 2,000 m (6,600 ft) [ 6 ] along the West Coast of the United States and in the Gulf of Mexico .