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Archerfish are remarkably accurate in their shooting; an adult fish almost always hits the target on the first shot. Although it is presumed that all archerfish species do this, it has only been confirmed from T. blythii , T. chatareus and T. jaculatrix . [ 1 ]
Chewing or mastication is the process by which food is crushed and ground by the teeth. It is the first step in the process of digestion , allowing a greater surface area for digestive enzymes to break down the foods.
Java barb (Barbonymus gonionotus), from Tasikmalaya, West Java Deep fried chunk of pickled silver barb (). The Java barb (Barbonymus gonionotus; Thai: ตะเพียน Ta-phian; Lao: Pa keng; Khmer: ត្រីឆ្ពិន Trey Chpin; Indonesian: Tawes; Vietnamese: Mè Vinh), more commonly known as silver barb in aquaculture, is a species of ray-finned fish in the genus Barbonymus.
Barbonymus gonionotus, known as silver barb in aquaculture, also called the Java barb Enteromius choloensis , found only in Malawi Puntius vittatus , also called the greenstripe barb or striped barb
Rhenanida ("Rhine fish") were flattened, ray-like, bottom-dwelling predators with large, upturned mouths that lived in marine environments. The rhenanids were once presumed to be the most primitive, or at least the closest to the ancestral placoderm, as their armour was made of unfused components—a mosaic of tubercles—as opposed to the ...
Butterflyfish that consume coral have longer intestines than fish that do not consume coral, suggesting that corallivores need more time to process the complex molecules of the coral. [ 10 ] The golden pufferfish is distributed widely across the tropical oceans, however, is considered a particularly significant corallivore, specifically in the ...
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.