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  2. Sonora sucker - Wikipedia

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    The Sonora Sucker (or Gila Sucker), [3] Catostomus insignis, is a medium-sized catostomid fish with 16 other species in the genus scattered throughout North America. This species is remarkably similar in appearance to the Yaqui Sucker ( C. bernardini ).

  3. Urmetazoan - Wikipedia

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    The Urmetazoan is the hypothetical last common ancestor of all animals, or metazoans.It is universally accepted to be a multicellular heterotroph — with the novelties of a germline and oogamy, an extracellular matrix (ECM) and basement membrane, cell-cell and cell-ECM adhesions and signaling pathways, collagen IV and fibrillar collagen, different cell types (as well as expanded gene and ...

  4. Escolar - Wikipedia

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    The escolar, Lepidocybium flavobrunneum, a species of fish in the family Gempylidae, is found in deep (200–885 metres, or 656–2,904 ft) tropical and temperate waters around the world. It is also known as snake mackerel, walu walu (Hawaiian, sometimes written waloo), and is sometimes sold as "butterfish" or "white tuna". [2]

  5. List of research methods in biology - Wikipedia

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    Student's t-test, Analysis of variance, Mann–Whitney U test Repeated measures design A research design that involves multiple measures of the same variable taken on the same or matched subjects either under different conditions or over two or more time periods.

  6. Taxonomy of fish - Wikipedia

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    Fish account for more than half of vertebrate species. As of 2016, there are over 32,000 described species of bony fish, over 1,100 species of cartilaginous fish, and over 100 hagfish and lampreys. A third of these fall within the nine largest families; from largest to smallest, these are Cyprinidae , Gobiidae , Cichlidae , Characidae ...

  7. Fishing down the food web - Wikipedia

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    The mean trophic level is calculated by assigning each fish or invertebrate species a number based on its trophic level.The trophic level is a measure of the position of an organism in a food web, starting at level 1 with primary producers, such as phytoplankton and seaweed, then moving through the primary consumers at level 2 that eat the primary producers to the secondary consumers at level ...

  8. Fish intelligence - Wikipedia

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    A laboratory study with zebra mbuna and ocellate river stingray has demonstrated that these fish can add and subtract 'one' from 2, 3, or 4. The fish had to learn that if presented with, say, 3 yellow symbols, then in a subsequent choice test between 2 and 4 symbols they had to choose 2 to get a food reward (thus, yellow meant "choose one less ...

  9. Helicoprion - Wikipedia

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    Helicoprion is an extinct genus of shark-like [1] eugeneodont fish. Almost all fossil specimens are of spirally arranged clusters of the individuals' teeth, called "tooth whorls", which in life were embedded in the lower jaw.