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- Gill rakers in fish are bony or cartilaginous processes that project from the branchial arch (gill arch) and are involved with suspension feeding tiny...3 KB (333 words) - 10:25, 17 May 2024
- from the arch, supported by individual gill rays. Some species retain gill rakers. Though all but the most primitive bony fish lack a spiracle, the pseudobranch...21 KB (2,529 words) - 17:10, 13 April 2024
- which the individual lamellae of the gills lie on either side of. The base of the arch may also support gill rakers, projections into the pharyngeal cavity...21 KB (2,659 words) - 19:14, 14 August 2024
- highly developed gill rakers. Its snout is conical, and the gill slits extend around the top and bottom of its head. The gill rakers, dark and bristle-like...40 KB (4,156 words) - 08:39, 22 July 2024
- and direct harvesting of their gill rakers for use in Chinese medicine. Manta rays are particularly valued for their gill plates, which are traded internationally...55 KB (6,080 words) - 05:44, 17 August 2024
- gill rakers are of limited use in predicting relationship among populations. Some think that the morphological differences in number of gill rakers are...18 KB (2,193 words) - 22:39, 5 May 2024
- elongated pectoral fins and a tall vertical tail fin. The gill arches were lined by gill rakers, equipped by a unique system of delicate bone plates, that...36 KB (4,510 words) - 21:13, 5 July 2024
- Meristics (section Gill raker counts)number of gill rakers on the first gill arch can also be used to identify a fish species. Rakers are counted for the upper and lower limbs of the gill arch...4 KB (585 words) - 16:20, 9 October 2023
- surface and midwater feeder. Adults feed on zooplankton using large gill rakers, while young ones feed on both zooplankton and phytoplankton. Catla attains...5 KB (481 words) - 11:41, 14 August 2024
- gill rakers that are designed for sifting plankton and other small particles out of the water as it passes through their gills.[citation needed] Gill...8 KB (982 words) - 02:58, 22 August 2024
- protrusible jaw typical of lampriformes. The species has 33 to 47 gill rakers on the first gill arch, and no teeth. The organs of the giant oarfish are concentrated...18 KB (1,888 words) - 04:43, 19 August 2024
- phytoplankton and submerged vegetation. It has modified, thin hair-like gill rakers, which it uses to feeds by sieving the water. Rohu reach sexual maturity...7 KB (676 words) - 08:58, 29 June 2024
- while sockeye salmon breed in the fall and have a different number of gill rakers than the kokanee. In addition, the black kokanee is much darker in color...20 KB (2,324 words) - 20:28, 3 May 2024
- preoperculum, larger eyes, a functional gas bladder, long and slender gill rakers, much smaller and depressible teeth, and are a light gray in colour....8 KB (974 words) - 17:30, 15 May 2024
- the number of gill rakers each possesses. The robalo or common snook (C. undecimalis) commonly has 11 to 13 non-rudimentary gill rakers and the Mexican...9 KB (1,110 words) - 09:28, 23 November 2023
- are absent from the premaxilla, dentaries, palatine, and pharynx. The gill rakers are also well-developed and numerous. The visible scales of the body...15 KB (1,849 words) - 00:14, 12 July 2024
- apparatus (gill arches and gill rakers). Its diet depends on the size of their gill rakers, which change as menhaden age. When the rakers are smaller...22 KB (2,570 words) - 18:46, 24 August 2024
- with hard tubercles. All species lack gas bladders and the number of gill rakers is variable. Oarfish coloration is also variable; the flanks are commonly...27 KB (3,207 words) - 10:30, 19 August 2024
- in its shape. Its distinctive features includes: a convex head, short gill rakers, and a mild overbite. It is found in the Arctic-draining streams, lakes...6 KB (714 words) - 20:49, 5 April 2023
- other types of tuna based on their number of gill rakers. Most species of tuna have a minimum of 30 gill rakers, while blackfin tuna only have 20–23, the...10 KB (1,082 words) - 17:16, 15 July 2024
- gill rakers plural of gill raker
- only by an examination of the gill-apparatus, the allis shad having from sixty to eighty very fine and long gill-rakers along the concave edge of the
- Diaries from Colonial Conflicts to Operation Iraqi Freedom (2010) by D.C. Gill, p. 70 Don't fight a battle if you don't gain anything by winning. This is
- The Gill Net is set up to effectively be a wall filled with holes. Fish swim into the net and are caught by their gills, preventing escape. Some gill nets