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  2. Sensory systems in fish - Wikipedia

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    The aquatic equivalent to smelling in air is tasting in water. Many larger catfish have chemoreceptors across their entire bodies, which means they "taste" anything they touch and "smell" any chemicals in the water. "In catfish, gustation plays a primary role in the orientation and location of food". [14] Salmon have a strong sense of smell.

  3. Basa (fish) - Wikipedia

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    Basa ("Pangasius bocourti"), as it is commonly referred to, is a species of primarily freshwater-dwelling catfish in the shark-catfish family, Pangasiidae, native to the Mekong and Chao Phraya river basins of Mainland Southeast Asia. [2] Economically, these fish are important as a regional food source, and are also prized on the international ...

  4. Barbel (zoology) - Wikipedia

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    On the epidermis, taste buds are situated on dermal papillae, small ridges of folded skin that increase the surface area of the skin and the total number of taste buds that can be concentrated on the barbel. [2] Concentrations of taste buds vary from species to species, with bullhead catfish having 25 buds in a square millimeter of barbel skin. [3]

  5. Tilapia - Wikipedia

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    Tilapia (/ t ɪ ˈ l ɑː p i ə / tih-LAH-pee-ə) is the common name for nearly a hundred species of cichlid fish from the coelotilapine, coptodonine, heterotilapine, oreochromine, pelmatolapiine, and tilapiine tribes (formerly all were "Tilapiini"), with the economically most important species placed in the Coptodonini and Oreochromini. [2]

  6. Catfish - Wikipedia

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    Catfish (or catfishes; order Siluriformes / s ɪ ˈ lj ʊər ɪ f ɔːr m iː z / or Nematognathi) are a diverse group of ray-finned fish.Named for their prominent barbels, which resemble a cat's whiskers, catfish range in size and behavior from the three largest species alive, the Mekong giant catfish from Southeast Asia, the wels catfish of Eurasia, and the piraíba of South America, to ...

  7. Aquaculture of salmonids - Wikipedia

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    Commonly farmed non-salmonid fish groups include tilapia, catfish, black sea bass and bream. In 2007, the aquaculture of salmonids was worth USD $10.7 billion globally. Salmonid aquaculture production grew over ten-fold during the 25 years from 1982 to 2007. In 2012, the leading producers of salmonids were Norway, Chile, Scotland and Canada. [5]

  8. We Did A Blind Taste Test Of 24 Boxed Cake Mixes—These Are ...

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    To make sure our results were as objective as possible (or as objective as they can be in a subjective taste test), our tasters went in totally blind. Some of our winners were exactly who we ...

  9. Clarias gariepinus - Wikipedia

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    In Africa, this catfish has been reported as being second in size only to the vundu of the Zambesian waters, [4] although FishBase suggests the African sharptooth catfish surpasses that species in both maximum length and weight. [5] [6] C. gariepinus has an average adult length of 1–1.5 m (3 ft 3 in – 4 ft 11 in).