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| 2 | | Organisms growing on, in or moving
through sand. (7) |
| 5 | | Light producing, bioluminescent. (10) |
| 8 | | An ornament at the end of a cord,
made of strings of equal length;
in fish, used, e.g., to describe
the fins of Latimeria chalumnae. (6) |
| 10 | | To artificially expose a fish, or
other animal, to a pathogen. (9) |
| 13 | | An x-ray plate, used to see
internal characters such as
vertebral counts. (10) |
| 14 | | Referring to the side or directed
toward the side or extending from
the side; the opposite of medial. (7) |
| 15 | | A major portion of the living
environment of a particular region
(such as a rain forest or
wetland), characterized by its
distinctive vegetation and
maintained by local climatic
conditions. (5) |
| 16 | | Prefix meaning backwards. (5) |
| 19 | | Japanese term for sliced fish,
especially tuna, usually with soy
sauce and green mustard; - served
raw as a delicacy, eaten
immediately after preparation. (7) |
| 22 | | An accumulation of serous fluid in
the cellular tissue or in any
cavity of the body. (6) |
| 24 | | In ichthyology a collection of
fishes made from a locality; a
subset of a population; a
representative part of a larger
unit used to study the properties
of the whole. (6) |
| 25 | | (pronounced "kash"). As
a noun, a place for hiding
something. As a verb, to hide or
store food for later consumption. (5) |
| 26 | | A coastal or intertidal salmon net
in Scotland and England with the
trap set across the outer end of a
leader of netting thus forming a T
shape. (1-3) |
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| 1 | | Fishes of the Family
Pentacerotidae, Order Perciformes
(perch-likes). See FishBase for
more information on this Family. (10) |
| 2 | | Fold of skin. (5) |
| 3 | | In a broad sense 'freshwater' is
used for all continental aquatic
systems such as rivers and lakes.
In a technical sense it refers to
water with less than 0.5 grams per
liter of total dissolved mineral
salts. (10) |
| 4 | | A long, narrow, and deep
depression of the sea floor with
relatively steep sides. (6) |
| 6 | | Hooked at the tip. (8) |
| 7 | | All the taxa in a clade preceding
a major cladogenesis event. (4,5) |
| 9 | | 1) A small hollow, cylindrical
structure, 2) an element of the
fish kidney. (6) |
| 11 | | A term covering developmental
stages in the early life history
of a fish between the time of
hatching and transforming to a
juvenile, the latter a miniature
replica of the adult. (6) |
| 12 | | Fish meat such as cod, pollack,
porgy, gurnard etc. boiled,
pickled into fibre and dried. (6) |
| 15 | | Divided into two equal parts or
lobes; often used in reference to
the distal ends of cirri or teeth
of fishes. (5) |
| 17 | | A protein produced in living cells
that speeds up a particular
chemical reaction. (6) |
| 18 | | Prefix meaning current, flowing. (4) |
| 20 | | Prefix meaning half, partly. (4) |
| 21 | | 1)An indentation in a shoreline,
may be small or long and narrow,
2)a short, narrow waterway
connecting a bay or lagoon to a
larger body of water, 3)an entry
point for water. (5) |
| 23 | | Any odd-numbered page of a book,
on the right. Opposite of verso. (5) |
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