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In Central America it is known as gaspar and in Mexico it is known as pejelagarto, a contraction of the words "pez" (fish) and "lagarto" (alligator). This gar inhabits a wide range of fresh and brackish water habitats such as rivers, floodplains , lakes and pools, but avoids areas with a strong current. [ 5 ]
A fish (pl.: fish or fishes) is an aquatic, anamniotic, gill-bearing vertebrate animal with swimming fins and a hard skull, but lacking limbs with digits.Fish can be grouped into the more basal jawless fish and the more common jawed fish, the latter including all living cartilaginous and bony fish, as well as the extinct placoderms and acanthodians.
Seafood is any form of sea life regarded as food by humans, prominently including fish and shellfish.Shellfish include various species of molluscs (e.g., bivalve molluscs such as clams, oysters, and mussels, and cephalopods such as octopus and squid), crustaceans (e.g. shrimp, crabs, and lobster), and echinoderms (e.g. sea cucumbers and sea urchins).
A Fish in the Water (originally published as El pez en el agua in 1993), is the memoir of Peruvian writer Mario Vargas Llosa, who won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2010. It covers two main periods of his life: the first comprising the years between 1946 and 1958, describes his childhood and the beginning of his writing career in Europe.
Pez is a brand of candy. Pez, the Spanish word for fish, may also refer to: Pez, an identifier of human gene PTPN14; Pez-e Olya ("Upper Pez"), a village in Iran; Pez-e Sofla ("Lower Pez"), a village in Iran; Pez-e Vosta ("Middle Pez"), a village in Iran; Barbadillo del Pez, a municipality located in the province of Burgos, Castile y León, Spain
El Pez que Fuma (English: The Smoking Fish) is a 1977 Venezuelan film directed by Román Chalbaud. The film takes place in La Guaira , in the titular brothel . It is considered by many to represent a high point in Venezuelan cinema, and was made during the Golden Age of Venezuelan cinema.
The totoaba or totuava (Totoaba macdonaldi) is a species of marine fish endemic to the Gulf of California in Mexico.It is the largest member of the drum family Sciaenidae [4] and is the only extant species in the genus Totoaba.
The genus name Pomoxis literally means "sharp cover", referring to the fish's spiny gill covers (opercular bones). [5] It is composed of the Greek poma (πῶμα, cover) and oxys (ὀξύς, "sharp").