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  2. Elk Hair Caddis - Wikipedia

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    Troth created the pattern and first fished it in 1957 on Loyalsock Creek in eastern Pennsylvania. The fly was inspired by several palmered flies Troth like to fish and G. E. M. Skues' Little Red Sedge fly which featured a hair wing. Originally tied to imitate the Green Caddis hatch, the Elk Hair Caddis has since been tied in a variety of wing ...

  3. Largehead hairtail - Wikipedia

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    Largehead hairtails are elongated in shape with a thin pointed tail (they lack a fish tail in the usual form). The eyes are large, and the large mouth contains long pointed fang-like teeth. [ 3] Largehead hairtails grow to 6 kg (13 lb) in weight, [ 4] and 2.34 m (7 ft 8 in) in length. [ 2] Most are only 0.5–1 m (1 ft 8 in – 3 ft 3 in) long ...

  4. Trichotillomania - Wikipedia

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    Trichotillomania. Trichotillomania ( TTM ), also known as hair-pulling disorder or compulsive hair pulling, is a mental disorder characterized by a long-term urge that results in the pulling out of one's own hair. [ 2][ 4] A brief positive feeling may occur as hair is removed. [ 5] Efforts to stop pulling hair typically fail.

  5. Nannostomus trifasciatus - Wikipedia

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    Nannostomus trifasciatus, (from the Greek: nanos = small, and the Latin stomus = relating to the mouth; from the Latin: trifasciatus = three bands), [1] [2] commonly known as the three-lined or three-stripe pencilfish, is a freshwater species of fish belonging to the characin family Lebiasinidae. They are popular in the aquarium trade due to ...

  6. Fur-bearing trout - Wikipedia

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    The fur-bearing trout (or furry trout) is a legendary creature found in American folklore and Icelandic folklore. According to folklore, the trout has created a thick coat of fur to maintain its body heat. Tales of furry fish date to the 17th-century and later the "shaggy trout" of Iceland. The earliest known American publication dates from a ...

  7. Striated frogfish - Wikipedia

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    Genus: Antennarius. Species: A. striatus. Binomial name. Antennarius striatus. ( G. Shaw, 1794) The striated frogfish or hairy frogfish ( Antennarius striatus) is a species of marine ray-finned fish belonging to the family Antennariidae, the frogfishes. This species is found in the Indo-Pacific and eastern Atlantic Ocean.

  8. Lepturacanthus savala - Wikipedia

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    The Savalai hairtail, Lepturacanthus savala, also known as small-head hairtail, is a species of cutlassfish native to the Indian Ocean and into the west Pacific Ocean as far east as Australia. They inhabit deep waters at depths from 100 m (330 ft). The maximum length is 100.0 cm (39.4 in), and weight reaches 11.0 kg (24.3 lb).

  9. Fish scale - Wikipedia

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    A fish scale is a small rigid plate that grows out of the skin of a fish. The skin of most jawed fishes is covered with these protective scales, which can also provide effective camouflage through the use of reflection and colouration, as well as possible hydrodynamic advantages. The term scale derives from the Old French escale, meaning a ...