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The NPC (/ ɛ n. p i. s i /; also known as the NPC Wojak), derived from non-player character, is an Internet meme that represents people deemed to not think for themselves. It may refer to those who lack introspection or intrapersonal communication, or whose identity is deemed entirely determined by their surroundings and the information they consume, with no conscious processing or ...
Caulophryne polynema is a species within the genus Caulophryne, this name is a combination of caulis, which mean" stem", an allusion to the stem-like base of the illicium, with phryne, meaning "toad", a suffix commonly used in the names of anglerfish genera.
Lophius was first proposed as a genus by Carl Linnaeus when he described Lophius piscatorius in the 10th edition of Systema Naturae given as "in Oceano Europæo", meaning the Northeastern Atlantic Ocean, Mediterranean and Black Seas with localities mentioned including Bordeaux, Marseille and Montpellier in France; Genoa, Rome, Naples and Venice in Italy; Lesbos in Greece; and Syria.
The filament most important to the angler is the first, which is the longest, terminates in a lappet, and is movable in every direction. The angler is believed to attract other fish by means of its lure, and then to seize them with its enormous jaws. While it is considered probable that smaller fish are attracted in this way experiments have ...
Sketch of Juliana Berners, author of the earliest essay on recreational fishing.. The early evolution of fishing as a recreation is not clear, but there is anecdotal evidence for fly fishing in Japan as early as the 9th century BCE, [1] and Claudius Aelianus (175–235 CE) describes fly fishing in Europe in his work On the Nature of Animals.
Slabbing is a bass fishing technique that resembles jigging, and involves repetitively lifting and dropping a flat lure, usually made of 1 to 2.5 oz of lead painted to look like a baitfish (or heavy slabs of metal), through a school of actively feeding fish that the angler has located on a fishfinder.
Izaak Walton's Compleat Angler, published in 1653 helped popularise fly fishing as a sport. Woodcut by Louis Rhead. The early evolution of fishing as recreation is not clear. For example, there is anecdotal evidence for fly fishing in Japan. However, fly fishing was likely to have been a means of survival, rather than recreation.
The sargassum fish was first formally described in 1758 by Carl Linnaeus in the 10th edition of Systema Naturae with its type locality given as the Sargasso Sea. [7] In 1813 Johann Gotthelf Fischer von Waldheim proposed a new genus, Histrio, with the Sargassum fish being the type species by tautonymy. [8]