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  Wolf herring: Definition and Links by Encyclopedian.com
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Both species have elongated bodies and jaws with long sharp teeth that facilitate their ravenous appetites, mostly for other fish.
www.encyclopedian.com /ch/Chirocentridae.html   (285 words)

  
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Families: Pholidophoridae, Archaeomenidae, Oligopleuridae, Leptolepidae, Elopidae, Albulidae, Mormyridae, Hyodontidae, Notopteridae, Osteoglossidae, Pantodontidae, Ctenothrissidae, Phractolaemidae, Saurodontidae, Chirocentridae, Clupeidae, Chanidae, Salmonidae, Alepocephalidae, Stomiatidae, Gonorhynchidae, Cromeriidae.
The Mormyridae are among the most extraordinary fishes, and, like the four families which follow in the above list, confined to fresh waters.
Other families, like the Chirocentridae, Clupeidae and Salmonidae, are entirely or partly marine, the two last being of great economic importance.
encyclopedia.jrank.org /correction/edit?content_id=49760&locale=en   (1889 words)

  
 Field Guide to Lombok Island
Chirocentridae includes a single genus, Chirocentrus, with two species.
Famili-famili serupa di Indo-Pasifik Barat: Elopidae dan Chanidae-tidak mempunyai gigi seperti gigi taring, mempunyai garis rusuk; Engraulidae, Pristigasteridae dan Clupeidae-tidak mempunyai gigi seperti gigi taring, pada umumnya mempunyai scute di sekitar perut.
Chirocentridae terdiri dari satu genus, Chirocentrus, dengan dua jenis.
research.kahaku.go.jp /zoology/Coastal_Fishes_of_Indonesia/summary/s126.html   (206 words)

  
 Ichthyology - Tom Trnski - Publications
Konishi, Y, Leis, J M and Trnski, T (2000) Malacanthidae, in: Leis, J M and Carson-Ewart, B M (eds) The Larvae of Indo-Pacific Coastal Fishes: an identification guide to marine fish larvae.
Leis, J M and Trnski, T (2000) 19 chapters: Clupeinae, Dussumieriinae, Pellonulinae, Engraulidae, Chirocentridae, Pristigasteridae, Chanidae, Caproidae, Cepolidae, Symphysanodontidae, Polynemidae, Sciaenidae, Opistognathidae, Plesiopidae, Carangidae, Amblyopinae, Soleidae, Cynoglossidae, in: Leis, J M and Carson-Ewart, B M (eds) The Larvae of Indo-Pacific Coastal Fishes: an identification guide to marine fish larvae.
Miskiewicz, A G and Trnski, T (2000) 2 chapters: Berycidae, Hoplichthyidae, in: Leis, J M and Carson-Ewart, B M (eds) The Larvae of Indo-Pacific Coastal Fishes: an identification guide to marine fish larvae.
www.amonline.net.au /fishes/about/research/trnski2.htm   (1474 words)

  
 Fishes of Libong Island   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
Engraulidae different from other clupeoid families in having projecting and pig-like snout, slender lower jaw, and jaw articulation well behind eye.
Chirocentridae: body highly compressed and elongate; no abdominal scutes; jaw articulation vertical below eye; jaws with developed fang-like canine teeth.
Clupeidae: snout not pig-like and projecting; jaw articulation anterior to vertical below eye.
research.kahaku.go.jp /zoology/Fishes_of_Libong/data/p008_01a.html   (173 words)

  
 tham   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
The families which have representatives in local waters in abundance are the Clupeidae and Engraulidae and to a lesser extent the Chirocentridae.
28f) of the family Chirocentridae which derives its local name from the peculiar shape of its body which resembles the long bladed knife used by Malays.
It has large eyes and sharp teeth and feeds mainly on the sprat and anchovy.
28.net /sg/tham.htm   (7459 words)

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