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单词 aquatic vertebrate
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aquatic vertebrate
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aquatic vertebrate: aquatic vertebrates
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Practically all aquatic vertebrates lead a swimming life, neither sessile nor creeping.
Tyler, John Mason, The Whence and the Whither of Man...(2010)
They are wanting in the lower aquatic vertebrates.
Haeckel, Ernst Heinrich Philipp August, The Evolution of Man — Volume 2(2010)
n animal living wholly or chiefly in or on water
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agnathan, jawless fish, jawless vertebrate
eel-shaped vertebrate without jaws or paired appendages including the cyclostomes and some extinct forms
placoderm
fish-like vertebrate with bony plates on head and upper body; dominant in seas and rivers during the Devonian; considered the earliest vertebrate with jaws
fish
any of various mostly cold-blooded aquatic vertebrates usually having scales and breathing through gills
bottom-dweller, bottom-feeder
a fish that lives and feeds on the bottom of a body of water
bottom lurkers
a fish that lurks on the bottom of a body of water
ostracoderm
extinct fish-like jawless vertebrate having a heavily armored body; of the Paleozoic
heterostracan
extinct jawless fish with the anterior part of the body covered with bony plates; of the Silurian and Devonian
cephalaspid, osteostracan
extinct jawless fish of the Devonian with armored head
anaspid
extinct small freshwater jawless fish usually having a heterocercal tail and an armored head; of the Silurian and Devonian
conodont
small (2 inches long) extinct eellike fish with a finned tail and a notochord and having cone-shaped teeth containing cellular bone; late Cambrian to late Triassic; possible predecessor of the cyclostomes
cyclostome
primitive aquatic vertebrate
lamper eel, lamprey, lamprey eel
primitive eellike freshwater or anadromous cyclostome having round sucking mouth with a rasping tongue
hag, hagfish, slime eels
eellike cyclostome having a tongue with horny teeth in a round mouth surrounded by eight tentacles; feeds on dead or trapped fishes by boring into their bodies
cartilaginous fish, chondrichthian
fishes in which the skeleton may be calcified but not ossified
fingerling
a young or small fish
game fish, sport fish
any fish providing sport for the angler
food fish
any fish used for food by human beings
rough fish
any fish useless for food or sport or even as bait
young fish
a fish that is young
mouthbreeder
any of various fishes that carry their eggs and their young in their mouths
spawner
a female fish at spawning time
northern snakehead
a voracious freshwater fish that is native to northeastern China; can use fin to walk and can survive out of water for three days; a threat to American populations of fish
bony fish
any fish of the class Osteichthyes
A. testudineus, Anabas testudineus, climbing perch
a small perch of India whose gills are modified to allow it to breathe air; has spiny pectoral fins that enable it to travel on land
craniate, vertebrate
animals having a bony or cartilaginous skeleton with a segmented spinal column and a large brain enclosed in a skull or cranium
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