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plecoglossid

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noun

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Any fish of the family Plecoglossidae (sometimes regarded as a subfamily, Plecoglossinae in Osmeridae); the ayu or sweetfish.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Topics: biology, natural-sciences, zoology

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  • 1984, Excerpta Medica, Section 3: Endocrinology, Volume 51, page 251, Furthermore, the antibody to sPRL reacted only with PRL cells in the pituitaries of three species of salmonids, a plecoglossid, eel, carp, goldfish, killifish, tilapia, and five species of marine fishes, [...] .
  • 1986, Southwest Fisheries Center (U.S.), Collected Reprints, Issue 1, page 370, Iwai & Rosenthal (1981), and Watanabe (1984b) have observed ciliated cells and cilia movement that aid in the transport of food in the alimentary canals of some plecoglossid, osmerid, clupeid, and salangid larvae.

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