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Coin – P , D (from the Latin denarius) or C – D or C would usually have "old" or "American" as well as "coin". College – C; Cold – C; Colonel – COL; Colt – C; Commercial – AD; Communist – RED; Companion – CH (Order of the Companions of Honour) Company – CO; Compare – CF (abbreviation of the Latin confer)
Common names of fish can refer to a single species; to an entire group of species, such as a genus or family; or to multiple unrelated species or groups.Ambiguous common names are accompanied by their possible meanings.
A 15x15 lattice-style grid is common for cryptic crosswords. A cryptic crossword is a crossword puzzle in which each clue is a word puzzle. Cryptic crosswords are particularly popular in the United Kingdom, where they originated, [1] as well as Ireland, the Netherlands, and in several Commonwealth nations, including Australia, Canada, India, Kenya, Malta, New Zealand, and South Africa.
Takifugu in a tank. The fugu (河豚; 鰒; フグ) in Japanese, bogeo (복어; -魚) or bok (복) in Korean, and hétún (河豚; 河魨) in Standard Modern Chinese [a] is a pufferfish, normally of the genus Takifugu, Lagocephalus, or Sphoeroides, or a porcupinefish of the genus Diodon, or a dish prepared from these fish.
The Black-blotched porcupinefish is a medium-sized fish which grows up to 65 cm (26 in), but the average size most likely to be observed is 45 cm (18 in). [1] Its body is elongated with a spherical head with big round protruding eyes and a large mouth that is rarely closed.
The World Wildlife Fund and the Zoological Society of London jointly issued their "Living Blue Planet Report" on 16 September 2015 which states that a dramatic fall of 74% occurred in worldwide stocks of scombridae fish between 1970 and 2010, and the global overall "population sizes of mammals, birds, reptiles, amphibians and fish fell by half ...
These fish have thick bodies with a long head, long snout, and a small mouth. [3] They have a single dorsal fin containing 1–3 spines and 10–11 soft rays. They also have an adipose fin , similar to trout , which helps to distinguishes them from their look-alike species, the yellow perch and the walleye . [ 2 ]
The Atlantic bluefin tuna (Thunnus thynnus) is a species of tuna in the family Scombridae.It is variously known as the northern bluefin tuna (mainly when including Pacific bluefin as a subspecies), giant bluefin tuna (for individuals exceeding 150 kg [330 lb]), and formerly as the tunny.