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  fish
The bodies of most fish are covered with a layer of scales, These scales are bony or horny plates arranged in overlapping rows, with the free rear end of one scale overlapping the attached front end of the scale behind it.
The digestive system of a fish usually consists of a mouth with rows of sharp, crushing, or brush-like teeth, a pharynx, an oesophagus, a stomach a pancreas and a liver and an intestine ending in the anal vent.
Fishes smell by means of a pair of double nostrils leading into an olfactory pit, which is part of the smell organ.
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 Bony Fish - Class Osteichthyes
Fish are all members of the phylum Chordata, sub-phylum Vertebrata.
Fish are generally spindle-shaped, oval in section, and flattened either sideways or dorsal-ventrally.
The common name "fish" refers to four different classes, depending on the person classifying them (there are numerous different ways to classify fish).
www.angelfire.com /mo2/animals1/fish/fish.html   (198 words)

  
 Anglerfish
The female angler fish eats fish and shrimp that are attracted by the luminous organ on her lure.
The male angler fish connects itself to the female angler fish, when it is mature enough, and then is mated for life.
Once the female gives birth, the male angler fish bites the female and remains attached to her with that grip for the rest of its life.
deep_sea1.tripod.com /deepseaecosystem/id3.html   (219 words)

  
 Latz Laboratory of Scripps Institution of Oceanography   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
Lantern fish produce dim glowing from the ventral surface of their body for luminescent countershading, which serves to make them more cryptic to predators below them that are looking up and scanning for silhouettes of potential prey.
Lantern fish also produce bright flashes from luminescent organs on their tail to help protect themselves from predators.
Lantern fish live at depths of 300-400 m during the day, where they are associated with deep scattering layers (that show up on sonar), and at night they can swim all the way up to the surface where they can be dipnetted.
siobiolum.ucsd.edu /Latz_interview.html   (1287 words)

  
 Finding Nemo [2003] [G] - 0.3.0
Two fish swim into very deep and very dark water, they see a light and begin to follow it, but it turns out to be a deep-water lantern fish with very sharp teeth, and it chases them and snaps at them (one fish ends up in its stomach, along with its lighted lantern, briefly).
Two fish are surrounded by jelly fish (one is stung a couple of times), they bounce off the tops and try to get out but one is trapped; the other returns to save it and they both fall unconscious after being stung several times (one has scars on its side).
A fish says "I have a hook in my lip," a fish asks "Am I dead?," a shark has a hook in his nostril, and a fish is scarred and we hear that he fell on dental tools.
www.kids-in-mind.com /f/findingnemo.htm   (1160 words)

  
 Antarctic Fish — 70South - Antarctic News, Antarctic Information, Interactive and Updated Daily...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
This fish is part of the Antarctic dragonfish, and are found on the Antarctic continental slope and slopes of the South Orkney and South Sandwich islands.
This fish has an average size of 15 cm, has a depth range of 700 to 2000 m, and is a deepwater fish.
This fish is a deepwater fish, 24 cm long on average, with a depth range of 800 to 1100 m.
www.70south.com /resources/antarctic-animals/antarctic-marine-life/antarcticfish   (1727 words)

  
 Fish Bright lantern reflector for all of your outdoor needs. Light where you need it..
Fish Bright lantern reflector for all of your outdoor needs.
At 1/3rd setting with the Fish Bright you will have more light directed were you need it then you would with a standard lantern at full setting.
The Fish Bright is made from 22 gage stainless with a special space age heat resistant, reflective coating that can withstand temps up to 1800 degrees fahrenheit.
www.soderbloom.com /reflectralight.html   (235 words)

  
 SEA — — Academics — K-12
In addition, many organisms, such as fish and crabs, which later have body coloration are transparent in their vulnerable juvenile forms.
In lantern fish, these cells are arranged along the ventral or bottom side.
Tell the students that their job is to count the fish and they will have 20 seconds in which to do this.
www.sea.edu /academics/k12.asp?plan=hideinocean   (938 words)

  
 Bony Fish Printouts - EnchantedLearning.com
Bony fish are fish that have a skeleton made of bone.
The Coelacanth (pronounced SEE-la-canth) is a primitive lobe-finned fish that was thought to have been extinct for millions of years, but a living Coelacanth was caught in the Indian Ocean off the coast of South Africa in 1938.
The Bluefin tuna is a large, bony fish in danger of extinction from over-fishing.
www.enchantedlearning.com /subjects/fish/printouts/bonyfish.shtml   (601 words)

  
 Sea and Sky: Lanternfish
The lanternfish is a deep water fish that gets its name from its ability to produce light.
It is believed that these light organs may be used to attract other small fish on which the lanternfish feeds.
Lanternfish are found in all of the world oceans at depths ranging from 1200 to 3000 feet.
www.seasky.org /monsters/sea7a1r.html   (152 words)

  
 lantern fish definition - Dictionary - MSN Encarta
lantern fish definition - Dictionary - MSN Encarta
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fish with luminous spots: a small bony deep-sea fish with rows of luminous spots along its body.
ca.encarta.msn.com /dictionary_1861692990/lantern_fish.html   (81 words)

  
 Bioluminescent Sea Life: BALDRIGE
Within the deep-scattering layer (mid-ocean depths between 200 and 1000 meters) certain species of myctophids, lantern fish, euphausids (shrimp-like crustaceans), and jellyfish all display certain forms of bioluminescence.
In any event, the new species of fish that we are able to collect and identify are the small, often microscopic mid-water species (like the myctophids and lantern fish in the deep scattering layers), not the larger fish species that find their way to the fish markets of the world.
I would have to say that the collection and identification of new species of fish come as a beneficial by-product of our primary scientific objectives during the GLOBEC (Global Ecosystems) studies that we are conducting in the northern Arabian Sea.
www.cs.ucf.edu /~MidLink/bald.q.ga.html   (685 words)

  
 Making Gold Fish Lantern
A few of them need only to look at it and with a few verbal clarifications, were able to make them on their own without the need to show it to them step-by-step.
On both sides of the hole are double-sided tape that will hold the tail and the top part of the fish together.
Note the positioning of the tail in relation to the body of the fish.
www.fortunecity.com /meltingpot/alabama/179/clanfish.htm   (733 words)

  
 221-06   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
Lantern fish, which live in the twilight zone, have these cells.
Hatchet fish find it hard to see the glowing bodies of the lantern fish from the light above.
This protects the lantern fish from being eaten by the hatchet fish.
www.gould.edu.au /seashores/webpages/guideseacreatures/221-06.htm   (68 words)

  
 STOCK ASSESSMENT OF LANTERN FISH RESOURCES
The method of stock assessment of mesopelagic resources (myctophids) was relied on both echo integration data and trial fishing.
The amount of fish that escaped through the net meshes in different parts of nets was estimated by installing small meshed nets to various parts of the main net.
In addition, some other fishes escaped from the codend and as other fishes (e.g., Nesepinnula sp.) damaged the net and therefore some Myctophids would have escaped from the net as a consequence.
www.fao.org /docrep/W8239E/W8239E05.htm   (257 words)

  
 Explore the world of Animal Fun! - Water animals   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
Everyone imagines fish to be small with fins and a tail, in fact, there are many wierd and wonderful fish out there.
Such as the lantern fish, it has a tiny lantern coming off it's forehead and hanging by its mouth.
The most common domestic fish is the gold fish, or in french the poisson rouge.
www.gel-communications.co.uk /animalfun/html/water-animals.html   (178 words)

  
 Scopelomorpha
What little is known of the biology of the neoscopelids is summarized in Nafpaktitis (1977), while good summaries of the general biology of the far better studied myctophids are to be found in Paxton (1972); Paxton et al.
Johnson, R.K. Fishes of the families Evermanellidae and Scopelarchidae: Systematics, morphology, interrelationships, and zoogeogrphy.
In "Ontogeny and Systematics of Fishes" (H.G. Moser, W.J. Richards, D.M. Cohen, M.P. Fahay, A.W. Kendall, Jr., and S.L. Richardson, eds), Spec.
tolweb.org /tree?group=Scopelomorpha&contgroup=Teleostei   (531 words)

  
 IWMC.org - Critique / The Institute of Cetacean Research
They suggest that commercial fisheries target only 35% of the prey items sought by marine mammals and suggest that the most significant consumer of fish is probably other predatory fish, and not marine mammals.
The U.S. pamphlet also makes the statement that "Southern Hemisphere baleen whales predominantly eat krill not fish…" This focus on a non-fishery area of the ocean simply ignores other areas where consumption of fish is a serious problem.
For example, it was shown that, when minke whales increase, important fish resources such as cod decrease by predation, resulting in serious consequences for fisheries targeting these species (Schweder et al., 2000).
www.iwmc.org /whales/011018/011018e-03.htm   (606 words)

  
 Fish Outline
Bony fish have gas bladders derived from the gut.
In teleosts and most other marine fish the canal to the gut is closed (physoclistous condition), but in lungfish it is open (physostomous).
A conus arteriosus is also usually present and also varies in size from large and muscular (cartilagenous fish) to virtually absent (cyclostomes, teleosts).
faculty.vassar.edu /mehaffey/academic/animalstructure/outlines/fish.html   (395 words)

  
 Yowie Zoo - Fish
The Class Osteichthyes is the Big One as far as fish go.
(fish having scales with a thick layer of enamel-like ganoine and an elongated mouth with the lower jaw hinged far back),
To view statistics of the fish available in Cadbury Yowies, please click here.
www.angelfire.com /yt/nzyowie/zoo_fish.html   (244 words)

  
 BBC - Science & Nature - Sea Life - Fact files: Lanternfish
The fish can vary the amount of light, making it dimmer or brighter to match the surroundings.
The photophores on the belly, are partly used to provide counter-illumination and break up the shadow of the fish in the dim blue deep-sea light.
These fish are found in all oceans, worldwide.
www.bbc.co.uk /nature/blueplanet/factfiles/fish/lanternfish_bg.shtml   (284 words)

  
 Lantern Toby, Canthigaster epilampra
A Lantern Toby at a depth of 25m, Bougainville Reef, Coral Sea, December 2000.
View a map of the collecting localities of specimens in the Australian Museum Fish Collection.
Allen, G.R. Marine Fishes of Tropical Australia and South-east Asia.
www.amonline.net.au /fishes/fishfacts/fish/cepilampra.htm   (129 words)

  
 The Comic Treadmill: Super DC Giant S-26 (1971)
It opens with Aquaman and Aqualad rescuing a cargo ship that has caught on fire and then proceeds to Atlantis where Aquaman finds the city captive of alien conquerors using Atlantean slave labor, a tale which would be updated and reworked in the 1980’s for another retelling of the origin.
The good news is that sea creatures evolved so that whales grew legs and live in the air, as do octopi and flying fish, the latter of which are kept in bird cages (evolution, schmevolution indeed).
Monster boxing shrimp: A heretofore unknown type of fish Aquaman uses to confound an enemy familiar with all known species by having the giant shrimp punch out renegade sharks.
www.comictreadmill.com /CTMBlogarchives/2005/2005_Individual/2005_09/000915.php   (1454 words)

  
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The Lantern Bass, from the Caribbean, is one of the smaller bass within this family, and is a great fish for beginners.
These fish are very disease resistant, and should not be kept in an aquarium with small shrimp or fish.
An extremely hardy fish, the Lantern Bass requires a diet consisting of a variety of chopped meaty items, vitamin enriched brine and mysis shrimp and flake foods.
www.liveaquaria.com /product/prod_Display.cfm?siteid=21&pCatId=1713   (274 words)

  
 [No title]   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
Some fish at this depth have silvery sides that act as mirrors and make fish difficult to see.
Swarms of prawns, shrimps, and squids migrate up beyond this zone to feed at night when it is difficult for their predators to see them.
Hammerhead sharks, giant squid, gulper eel, crustacean, luminous prawn, lantern fish, headlamp fish, sea spider all live at this level.
www.calstatela.edu /faculty/eviau/edit557/oceans/patty/pobott2.htm   (161 words)

  
 Pangaea fossils fish - plate species and from all over the world for sale
This is a “split fish” which means very little prep went into exposing the fish.
These "ghosted” fossil fish are carefully hand-prepped to reveal the specimens bones, fins and head.
An interesting note concerning these fish species is that they are never found associated in the geological sequence of layers.
www.pangaeafossils.com /fish.html   (1053 words)

  
 Ramsey's Land | Anglerfish | Deep Sea Anglerfish
This means that if the other animals, the fish and prawns living at these depths, are giving out bluish lights, the fl skin of the angler will render them invisible in the gloom, by absorbing any bluish light.
Any typical bait on the end of a fishing line would no longer be recognizable at these depths, so deep sea anglers have a bioluminescent organ at the end of the line.
As the fish mature, the female's luminous organ becomes fully developed and the male acquires pincer like teeth, which will grip the skin of the female.
ramseydoran.com /anglerfish/deep_sea.htm   (778 words)

  
 Myctophid Lanternfish   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
Myctophids, or lanternfish (not to be confused with anglerfish), are among the most numerous fish in the sea.
They have species-specific patterns to the distribution of their light organs, leading some to suggest that they must be used to recognize potential mates.
Whether or not this is true, they likely use their luminescence for counterillumination as well.
www.lifesci.ucsb.edu /~biolum/organism/pictures/myctophid.html   (57 words)

  
 Rustic Moroccan Lantern
We have put together a range of rather exotic candle lanterns, including Moroccan lanterns, suitable for indoor or outdoor use and fully weatherproof.
Ideal for use as a candle lantern to cast a soft glow on balmy summer evenings.
Another exotic candle lantern featuring an open framework of scrolled metal in a rusty finish.
www.thecedartree.co.uk /ornamenta/rustic_lanterns.html   (286 words)

  
 China: Charming Chinese Lanterns   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
The pictures of stamps are respectively entitled: "The Fish Lantern", "The Chinese White Cabbage Lantern", "The Lotus Lantern", "The Dragon and Phoenix Lantern", and "The Butterfly Lantern".
Acclaimed as one of the oldest forms of Chinese folk art, the Chinese lantern has long been an integral part of celebrating Yuanxiao on the 15th of the first lunar month.
Fairs are held across China during Yuanxiao, displaying lanterns in every shape, size and colour and conjuring up a dreamland of lights when night falls.
www.unicover.com /H0004486.htm   (336 words)

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