单词 | japanese medaka |
释义 | > as lemmasJapanese medaka Any of several small Asian freshwater fishes of the genus Oryzias (family Oryziatidae), commonly found in paddy fields and popular in aquaria; esp. (more fully Japanese medaka) O. latipes of Japan. Also called killifish, ricefish.Medakas were formerly placed in the family Cyprinodontidae. ΚΠ 1906 D. S. Jordan & J. O. Snyder in Proc. U.S. National Mus. 31 (1907) 288 The species are known in Japan as Medaka. 1952 G. F. Hervey & J. Hems Freshwater Trop. Aquarium Fishes 260 Oryzias latipes... The Medaka. The (Japanese) Rice Fish. The Coldwater Haplochilus (in America). 1977 Sci. Amer. Nov. 133/3 When Ridgway and his collaborators injected aequorin into the large unfertilized eggs of a fish, the Japanese medaka (Oryzias latipes), they observed a low level of luminescence. 1994 New Scientist 16 July 6/1 Astronauts aboard the space shuttle Columbia video the mating behaviour of two pairs of Japanese medaka fish. 2004 Daily Yomiuri 19 Mar. 3/3 The Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries Ministry will launch a project..to help revive the natural habitat and spawning areas of medaka, or killifish. < as lemmas |
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