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87 relations: Adelaide River, Alligator Rivers, Ampullae of Lorenzini, Ariidae, Australia, Barramundi, Bony bream, Bowfishing, Bream, Bycatch, Carcharhinus, Commercial fishing, Crab trap, Crustacean, Daru, Demersal zone, Dorsal fin, Dry season, Ducie River, Electroreception, Embryo, Endangered species, Estuary, Family (biology), Fish fin, Fish scale, Fly River, Fossil, Fresh water, Friedrich Gustav Jakob Henle, Gill slit, Gillnetting, Glyphis hastalis, Goby, Gudgeon (fish), Habitat, Habitat destruction, Indian Ocean, International Union for Conservation of Nature, IUCN Red List, Jack Garrick, Johannes Peter Müller, Kakadu National Park, Lakefield National Park, Leonard Compagno, Longline fishing, Louis Agassiz, Macrobrachium, Mangrove, Nautical mile, ..., New Guinea, Nictitating membrane, Normanby River, Northern Territory, Ord River, Osteichthyes, Papua New Guinea, Pelvic fin, Placenta, Port Musgrave, Prawn, Queensland, Recreational fishing, Requiem shark, River shark, Salinity, Sciaenidae, Seawater, South China Sea, Stingray, Taxidermy, Threadfin, Tide, Tropics, Trypauchen, Turbidity, Type (biology), United Kingdom, Uranium, Viviparity, Water column, Water pollution, Wenlock River, Western Australia, Yolk, Yolk sac, Zoology. Expand index (37 more) »
Adelaide River
The Adelaide River is a river in the Northern Territory of Australia.
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Alligator Rivers
Alligator Rivers is the name of an area in the Arnhem Land region of the Northern Territory of Australia, containing three rivers, the East, West, and South Alligator Rivers.
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Ampullae of Lorenzini
The ampullae of Lorenzini are special sensing organs called electroreceptors, forming a network of jelly-filled pores.
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Ariidae
The Ariidae or ariid catfish are a family of catfish that mainly live in marine waters with many freshwater and brackish water species.
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Australia
Australia, officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a sovereign country comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania and numerous smaller islands.
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Barramundi
The barramundi (Lates calcarifer) or Asian sea bass, is a species of catadromous fish in family Latidae of order Perciformes.
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Bony bream
Bony bream Nematalosa erebi are a widespread and common, small to medium-sized Australian freshwater fish often found in large shoals throughout much of northern and central Australia, and the Murray-Darling basin.
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Bowfishing
Bowfishing is a method of fishing that uses specialized archery equipment to shoot and retrieve fish.
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Bream
Bream is a general term for a species of freshwater and marine fish belonging to a variety of genera including Abramis (e.g., A. brama, the common bream), Acanthopagrus, Argyrops, Blicca, Brama, Chilotilapia, Etelis, Lepomis, Gymnocranius, Lethrinus, Nemipterus, Pharyngochromis, Rhabdosargus, or Scolopsis.
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Bycatch
Bycatch, in the fishing industry, is a fish or other marine species that is caught unintentionally while catching certain target species and target sizes of fish, crabs etc.
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Carcharhinus
Carcharhinus is the type genus of the family Carcharhinidae, the requiem sharks.
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Commercial fishing
Commercial fishing is the activity of catching fish and other seafood for commercial profit, mostly from wild fisheries.
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Crab trap
Crab traps are used to bait, lure, and catch crabs for commercial or recreational use.
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Crustacean
Crustaceans (Crustacea) form a large, diverse arthropod taxon which includes such familiar animals as crabs, lobsters, crayfish, shrimp, krill, woodlice, and barnacles.
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Daru
Daru is the capital of the Western Province of Papua New Guinea and a former Catholic bishopric.
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Demersal zone
The demersal zone is the part of the sea or ocean (or deep lake) consisting of the part of the water column near to (and significantly affected by) the seabed and the benthos.
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Dorsal fin
A dorsal fin is a fin located on the back of most marine and freshwater vertebrates such as fishes, cetaceans (whales, dolphins, and porpoises), and the (extinct) ichthyosaur.
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Dry season
The dry season is a yearly period of low rainfall, especially in the tropics.
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Ducie River
The Ducie River is a river located on the Cape York Peninsula in Far North Queensland, Australia.
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Electroreception
Electroreception or electroception is the biological ability to perceive natural electrical stimuli.
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Embryo
An embryo is an early stage of development of a multicellular diploid eukaryotic organism.
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Endangered species
An endangered species is a species which has been categorized as very likely to become extinct.
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Estuary
An estuary is a partially enclosed coastal body of brackish water with one or more rivers or streams flowing into it, and with a free connection to the open sea.
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Family (biology)
In biological classification, family (familia, plural familiae) is one of the eight major taxonomic ranks; it is classified between order and genus.
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Fish fin
Fins are usually the most distinctive anatomical features of a fish.
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Fish scale
The skin of most fishes is covered with scales, which, in many cases, are animal reflectors or produce animal coloration.
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Fly River
The Fly, at, is the second longest river in Papua New Guinea, after the Sepik.
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Fossil
A fossil (from Classical Latin fossilis; literally, "obtained by digging") is any preserved remains, impression, or trace of any once-living thing from a past geological age.
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Fresh water
Fresh water (or freshwater) is any naturally occurring water except seawater and brackish water.
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Friedrich Gustav Jakob Henle
Friedrich Gustav Jakob Henle (9 July 1809 – 13 May 1885) was a German physician, pathologist, and anatomist.
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Gill slit
Gill slits are individual openings to gills, i.e., multiple gill arches, which lack a single outer cover.
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Gillnetting
Gillnetting is a common fishing method used by commercial and artisanal fishermen of all the oceans and in some freshwater and estuary areas.
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Glyphis hastalis
Glyphis hastalis is a species of extinct river shark from the United Kingdom.
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Goby
Gobies are fishes of the family Gobiidae, one of the largest fish families comprising more than 2,000 species in more than 200 genera.
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Gudgeon (fish)
Gudgeon is the common name for a number of small freshwater fish of the families Cyprinidae, Eleotridae or Ptereleotridae.
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Habitat
In ecology, a habitat is the type of natural environment in which a particular species of organism lives.
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Habitat destruction
Habitat destruction is the process in which natural habitat is rendered unable to support the species present.
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Indian Ocean
The Indian Ocean is the third largest of the world's oceanic divisions, covering (approximately 20% of the water on the Earth's surface).
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International Union for Conservation of Nature
The International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN; officially International Union for Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources) is an international organization working in the field of nature conservation and sustainable use of natural resources.
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IUCN Red List
The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species (also known as the IUCN Red List or Red Data List), founded in 1964, has evolved to become the world's most comprehensive inventory of the global conservation status of biological species.
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Jack Garrick
Dr John Andrew Frank "Jack" Garrick (1928–) is a prominent ichthyologist from New Zealand.
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Johannes Peter Müller
Johannes Peter Müller (14 July 1801 – 28 April 1858) was a German physiologist, comparative anatomist, ichthyologist, and herpetologist, known not only for his discoveries but also for his ability to synthesize knowledge.
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Kakadu National Park
Kakadu National Park is a protected area in the Northern Territory of Australia, 171 km southeast of Darwin.
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Lakefield National Park
Lakefield is a national park in Lakefield, Shire of Cook, Queensland, Australia, 1,707 km northwest of Brisbane and 340 km north-west of Cairns by road, on Cape York Peninsula.
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Leonard Compagno
Leonard Joseph Victor Compagno is an international authority on shark taxonomy and the author of many scientific papers and books on the subject, best known of which is his 1984 catalogue of shark species produced for the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the United Nations.
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Longline fishing
Longline fishing is a commercial fishing technique.
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Louis Agassiz
Jean Louis Rodolphe Agassiz (May 28, 1807December 14, 1873) was a Swiss-American biologist and geologist recognized as an innovative and prodigious scholar of Earth's natural history.
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Macrobrachium
Macrobrachium is a genus of freshwater prawns or shrimps characterised by the extreme enlargement of the second pair of pereiopods, at least in the male.
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Mangrove
A mangrove is a shrub or small tree that grows in coastal saline or brackish water.
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Nautical mile
A nautical mile is a unit of measurement defined as exactly.
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New Guinea
New Guinea (Nugini or, more commonly known, Papua, historically, Irian) is a large island off the continent of Australia.
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Nictitating membrane
The nictitating membrane (from Latin nictare, to blink) is a transparent or translucent third eyelid present in some animals that can be drawn across the eye from the medial canthus for protection and to moisten it while maintaining vision.
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Normanby River
The Normanby River, comprising the East Normanby River, the West Normanby River, the East Normanby River North Branch, the East Normanby River South Branch and the Granite Normanby River, is a river system located in Far North Queensland, Australia.
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Northern Territory
The Northern Territory (abbreviated as NT) is a federal Australian territory in the central and central northern regions of Australia.
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Ord River
The Ord River is a long river in the Kimberley region of Western Australia.
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Osteichthyes
Osteichthyes, popularly referred to as the bony fish, is a diverse taxonomic group of fish that have skeletons primarily composed of bone tissue, as opposed to cartilage.
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Papua New Guinea
Papua New Guinea (PNG;,; Papua Niugini; Hiri Motu: Papua Niu Gini), officially the Independent State of Papua New Guinea, is an Oceanian country that occupies the eastern half of the island of New Guinea and its offshore islands in Melanesia, a region of the southwestern Pacific Ocean north of Australia.
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Pelvic fin
Pelvic fins are paired fins located on the ventral surface of fish.
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Placenta
The placenta is an organ that connects the developing fetus to the uterine wall to allow nutrient uptake, thermo-regulation, waste elimination, and gas exchange via the mother's blood supply; to fight against internal infection; and to produce hormones which support pregnancy.
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Port Musgrave
Port Musgrave is a shallow, almost enclosed, estuarine bay located on the western coast of the Cape York Peninsula in Far North Queensland, Australia.
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Prawn
Prawn is a common name for small aquatic crustaceans with an exoskeleton and ten legs (i.e. a member of the order decapoda), some of which can be eaten.
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Queensland
Queensland (abbreviated as Qld) is the second-largest and third-most populous state in the Commonwealth of Australia.
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Recreational fishing
Recreational fishing, also called sport fishing, is fishing for pleasure or competition.
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Requiem shark
Requiem sharks are sharks of the family Carcharhinidae in the order Carcharhiniformes, containing migratory, live-bearing sharks of warm seas (sometimes of brackish or fresh water) such as the spinner shark, the blacknose shark, the blacktip shark, the grey reef shark, and the blacktip reef shark.
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River shark
Glyphis is a genus in the family Carcharhinidae, commonly known as the river sharks.
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Salinity
Salinity is the saltiness or amount of salt dissolved in a body of water (see also soil salinity).
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Sciaenidae
The Sciaenidae are a family of fish commonly called drums or croakers in reference to the repetitive throbbing or drumming sounds they make.
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Seawater
Seawater, or salt water, is water from a sea or ocean.
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South China Sea
The South China Sea is a marginal sea that is part of the Pacific Ocean, encompassing an area from the Karimata and Malacca Straits to the Strait of Taiwan of around.
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Stingray
Stingrays are a group of sea rays, which are cartilaginous fish related to sharks.
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Taxidermy
Taxidermy is the preserving of an animal's body via stuffing and mounting for the purpose of display or study.
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Threadfin
Threadfins are silvery grey perciform marine fish of the family Polynemidae.
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Tide
Tides are the rise and fall of sea levels caused by the combined effects of the gravitational forces exerted by the Moon and the Sun and the rotation of Earth.
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Tropics
The tropics are a region of the Earth surrounding the Equator.
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Trypauchen
Trypauchen is a genus of burrowing gobies native to the Indo-Pacific region.
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Turbidity
Turbidity is the cloudiness or haziness of a fluid caused by large numbers of individual particles that are generally invisible to the naked eye, similar to smoke in air.
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Type (biology)
In biology, a type is a particular specimen (or in some cases a group of specimens) of an organism to which the scientific name of that organism is formally attached.
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United Kingdom
The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom (UK) or Britain,Usage is mixed with some organisations, including the and preferring to use Britain as shorthand for Great Britain is a sovereign country in western Europe.
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Uranium
Uranium is a chemical element with symbol U and atomic number 92.
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Viviparity
Among animals, viviparity is development of the embryo inside the body of the parent, eventually leading to live birth, as opposed to reproduction by laying eggs that complete their incubation outside the parental body.
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Water column
A water column is a conceptual column of water from the surface of a sea, river or lake to the bottom sediment.
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Water pollution
Water pollution is the contamination of water bodies, usually as a result of human activities.
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Wenlock River
The Wenlock River is a river located on the Cape York Peninsula in Far North Queensland, Australia.
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Western Australia
Western Australia (abbreviated as WA) is a state occupying the entire western third of Australia.
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Yolk
Among animals which produce one, the yolk (also known as the vitellus) is the nutrient-bearing portion of the egg whose primary function is to supply food for the development of the embryo.
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Yolk sac
The yolk sac is a membranous sac attached to an embryo, formed by cells of the hypoblast adjacent to the embryonic disk.
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Zoology
Zoology or animal biology is the branch of biology that studies the animal kingdom, including the structure, embryology, evolution, classification, habits, and distribution of all animals, both living and extinct, and how they interact with their ecosystems.
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Bizant River Shark, Bizant river shark, Glyphis glyphis, Glyphis sp. A, Glyphis sp. nov. A, Queensland river shark.
References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Speartooth_shark
