单词 | port jackson shark |
释义 | > as lemmasPort Jackson shark 1. More fully Port Jackson shark. Any of several small bullhead sharks of the family Heterodontidae found in shallow south Australian waters; esp. Heterodontus portusjacksoni, which is light brown with black markings. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > fish > subclass Elasmobranchii > order Pleurotremata > [noun] > member of family Heterodontidae (Port Jackson shark) Port Jackson1789 pigfish1807 cestraciont1847 Cestracion1876 1789 A. Phillip Voy. Botany Bay 283 Port Jackson Shark... At first sight the above might be taken for the Prickly Hound-fish, or Squalus Spinax of Linnaeus. 1866 L. J. R. Agassiz Geol. Sketches 88 The so-called Port-Jackson Shark has features which were very characteristic of the Carboniferous Sharks and are lost in the modern ones. 1877 H. A. Nicholson Anc. Life-hist. Earth (1878) xi. 154 The more peacable ‘Port Jackson Sharks’, with their blunt teeth. 1932 National Geographic Mag. Sept. 369/2 There were sharks there in abundance—all sorts and sizes—..‘gummies’, ‘angels’, and ‘Port Jacksons’. 1988 Good Weekend (Sydney) 2 Apr. 45/1 Port Jackson sharks are found only in Australian waters and are one of our most interesting and unusual fish. 2013 S. A. Shepherd & G. J. Edgar Ecol. Austral. Temperate Reefs 251/1 The major predators of the black urchin are the eastern blue groper as well as smaller wrasses, the Port Jackson shark, rays, [etc.]. < as lemmas |
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