Meaning of plecoglossid | Babel Free

Definitions

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

Examples

“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.”

“Families included here include⟳ prototroctids, most diadromous galaxiids, a plecoglossid, mugiloidid, and some eleotrids and gobiids.”

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