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Illustration of barbels on the head of a fish. The head or skull includes the skull roof (a set of bones covering the brain, eyes and nostrils), the snout (from the eye to the forward-most point of the upper jaw), the operculum or gill cover (absent in sharks and jawless fish), and the cheek, which extends from the eye to the preopercle. The ...
A companionable fish, these gobies thrive in a male/female pair. Also known as orange-dashed goby, orange spotted glider goby; scientific name valenciennea puellaris. Maximum length: 6.7 inches
The rostrum (saw), unique among jawed fish, plays a significant role in both locating and capturing prey. [78] [79] The head and rostrum contain thousands of sensory organs, the ampullae of Lorenzini, that allow the sawfish to detect and monitor the movements of other organisms by measuring the electric fields they emit. [80]
This diagram was created with Inkscape, ... Description= en: Schematic drawing of inner anatomy of a teleost (fish). 1 liver, 2 stomach, 3 intestine, 4 heart, 5 swim ...
In fish anatomy and turtle anatomy, a barbel is a slender, whiskerlike sensory organ near the mouth. Fish that have barbels include the catfish, the carp, the goatfish, the hagfish, the sturgeon, the zebrafish, the black dragonfish and some species of shark such as the sawshark.
Fish physiology is the scientific study of how the component parts of fish function together in the living fish. [2] It can be contrasted with fish anatomy, which is the study of the form or morphology of fishes. In practice, fish anatomy and physiology complement each other, the former dealing with the structure of a fish, its organs or ...
Fish head casserole: China Prepared with a fish head (about 1 kg), bean curd, cayenne pepper, sesame oil, vegetable oil, garlic sprouts, shallot, ginger, soy, salt, cooking wine, white sugar and monosodium glutamate. The fish head is washed, marinated in soy sauce, and fried with cooking wine added.
The Paracanthopterygii (cods, etc.) are Northern Hemisphere fish, with both salt and freshwater species. [ 43 ] Some teleosts are migratory; certain freshwater species move within river systems on an annual basis; other species are anadromous, spending their lives at sea and moving inland to spawn , salmon and striped bass being examples.