| 单词 | megamouth shark |
| 释义 | > as lemmasmegamouth shark In full megamouth shark. A very rare plankton-eating shark, Megachasma pelagios (family Megachasmidae), which has a large, greatly distensible mouth, and has been found in the ocean off Hawaii, California, Japan, and Western Australia. Also (usually as Megamouth): an individual shark of this species. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > fish > subclass Elasmobranchii > order Pleurotremata > [noun] > miscellaneous types of tiburon1555 dog1673 picked dog1673 picked dogfish1740 tiger-shark1787 piked dogfish1805 ground-shark1834 sea-attorney1849 gazer1861 shovel head1881 puff shark1902 spur-dog1921 whaler shark1937 megamouth1977 1977 Oceans Nov.–Dec. 46/1 Navy researchers collected the fifteen foot, sixteen-hundred pound male specimen which has come to be called ‘megamouth’ after its distinctive oral cavity. 1983 New Scientist 27 Oct. 266/3 Megamouth had a total of 236 tiny teeth which do not bite or tear but act like a sieve. 1991 Sea Frontiers Feb. 21 This megamouth shark is the first ever seen alive. 1993 L. Taylor Sharks of Hawaii 62 Biologists have speculated that megamouths may attract or concentrate prey animals by emitting a silvery light from the inside of its mouth... The tissue in Megamouth I was too deteriorated to provide evidence, and histological work on Megamouth II was inconclusive. < as lemmas |
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