Plecoglossid

Quick meaning: Plecoglossid is a noun meaning (zoology) Any fish of the family Plecoglossidae (sometimes regarded as a subfamily, Plecoglossinae in Osmeridae); the ayu or sweetfish.

Meaning

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

Example Sentences

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

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.

Word Forms

• plecoglossids

Synonyms for plecoglossid

Depending on context, synonyms include ayu, sweetfish.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include sweetfish, plec, plectognath, pleuronectid, oplegnathid, ptilichthyid.

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