Sentences with phrase «fin fish»

This study estimates 2,960 ray - fin fish species» thermal sensitivity.

The World Heritage Centre and IUCN consider that this corrective measure is partially implemented, and that regular monitoring of the effects of these measures on the populations of commercial fin fish, conch and lobster should demonstrate that protection is ecologically effective for these species before the corrective measure can be considered to have been fully implemented.

Though the State Party also notes efforts to establish coral nurseries, and the imposition of a ban on shrimp trawling, the World Heritage Centre and IUCN are concerned over an apparent focus on conch and lobster, with little evidence that fin fish, which are an important attribute of the property's Outstanding Universal Value, are systematically addressed in the identification and design of no - take zones.

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Shellfish are much the same as small fin fish, in that they are safe when properly prepared.

Animal fats in general are usually saturated, although fin fish contains highly unsaturated fat and the fat in shellfish, poultry and wild game is considerably less saturated than that in red meats.

Fin fish are excellent.

If you can get it, the best is wild - caught fin fish from the deep ocean.

Foods highest in B12 are shellfish (mussels, lobster), fin fish (trout, salmon, tuna), and organ meats (liver).

The top eight allergens — peanut, tree nuts, milk, eggs, shellfish, fin fish, soy and wheat — must be listed clearly on all food products, he added.

Their plans, instigated by the collapse of fin fish populations and the vulnerable nature of shellfish fisheries in the Clyde, are also being released this week.

«The fisheries here are fantastic — the clams, the oysters, the fin fish — I don't think anyone in the southeast Atlantic can possibly beat us.

«They take our imported raw materials, like crabmeat and fin fish, and further process it,» Cook says.

We are rapidly evolving and growing into the fin fish and value - added channels as well.»

Right now, we're working on sourcing the shrimp the correct way out of the Gulf, along with finned fish from the same region.

In addition to finned fish, Gould also makes crudo with scallops, Maine shrimp, abalone, and squid, as well as thinly sliced surf and geoduck clams.

And, of course, these kids never eat vegetables and almost never any finned fish.

«This causes a shakeup in the fish family tree, which indicates that the ancestor shared by all ray - finned fishes lived tens of millions of years after previously thought, maybe in the aftermath of a mass extinction event around 360 million years ago that decimated many other groups,» said Friedman, an associate curator at the U-M Museum of Paleontology and an associate professor in the Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences.

Enamel — an almost pure layer of a mineral called hydroxyapatite — coats the teeth of almost all tetrapods (four - limbed creatures) and lobe - finned fish such as coelacanths.

This repositioning of the polypterids sends shock waves through the fish family tree and suggests that ray - finned fish may have emerged tens of millions of years later than scientists had thought, near the boundary between the Devonian and Carboniferous periods about 360 million years ago.

They have long defied classification but are generally accepted to be the most primitive living ray - finned fish, separated from the other modern groups by a host of long - extinct fossil fish.

Ray - finned fish represent about half of all backboned animals on Earth.

The findings also suggest that the origin of all modern ray - finned fish may have occurred tens of millions of years later than is generally believed.

For lobe - finned fishes» tetrapod descendants, however, the sacs evolved into lungs.

Unlike ray - finned fishes, which make up the majority of fish species today, the lobe - finned varieties evolved with bony limb - like fins, a handy adaptation (no pun intended).

Eusthenopteron (385 million years ago): Known from thousands of fossils, the lobe - finned fish's four meaty limbs have the same pattern of bones seen in the limbs of all tetrapods: a single bone nearest the body (your arm's humerus and your leg's femur), two bones farther out (your arm's radius and ulna and your leg's tibia and fibula).

Locomotion The muscles and bones in lobe - finned fish appendages gave tetrapods, ahem, a leg up on adapting to life on land.

The tetrapod story starts with lobe - finned fishes nearly 400 million years ago.

The researchers discovered 214 novel RNA viruses (where the genomic material is RNA rather than DNA) in apparently healthy reptiles, amphibians, lungfish, ray - finned fish, cartilaginous fish and jawless fish.

Of the ray - finned fish, the so - called Neopterygii («new fins») became particular biodiverse during the Triassic and, with over 30,000 species, today constitute the largest vertebrate group.

Based on the data evaluated, the researchers demonstrate that cartilaginous fish, the most biodiverse fish group at the time, especially suffered heavily during an extinction event in the Middle Permian epoch while the Permian ray - finned fish escaped relatively unscathed.

Paleontologists from the University of Zurich now reveal that climate catastrophes in the past played a crucial role in the dominance of ray - finned fish today.

The evolutionary relationships between nearly 8,000 species of fish are delineated in the branches of the tree, allowing the researchers to make inferences about all 30,000 or so species of ray - finned fish.

Today, ray - finned fish, which belong to the bony fish, are by far the most biodiverse fish group in both salt - and freshwater.

Before the extinction, fish were dominated by two groups: the armor - plated, predatory placoderms and the lobe - finned fish, whose fins are borne on a fleshy, scaly stalk extending from the body.

A University of Michigan evolutionary biologist and a colleague have shown that the previously known but misclassified Fouldenia was the first recorded shell - crushing ray - finned fish.

This long - extinct fish, and a handful of its relatives, demonstrate that in the immediate aftermath of the end - Devonian extinction, ray - finned fish had already acquired a diversity of forms that gave them an evolutionary edge, enabling them to fill the ecological vacuum left by the demise of most major fish groups.

«The ray - finned fish come to the fore after that event.

In addition to a few ray - finned fish, some sharks and tetrapods survived the Hangenberg event.

The ray - finned fish really do exemplify Darwin's comment about «endless forms most beautiful and wonderful,»» Coates said.

The extinction that ended the Devonian Era 359 million years ago created opportunities quickly exploited by a formerly rare and unremarkable group of fish that went on to become — in terms of the sheer number of species — the most successful vertebrates (backboned animals) on the planet today: the ray - finned fish.

Think of the word «fish» and the image that pops into your mind will likely be a ray - finned fish, members of a ubiquitous class that includes everything from tuna to trout, catfish to cod, swordfish to sunfish, perch to piranha, goldfish to goby.

«These early, post-Devonian ray - finned fish provide the first glimpse of what is to come: an evolutionary profusion of body forms, fin shapes, and extraordinary jaws and teeth.

With most other predators now out of the picture, early sharks and ray - finned fish like Fouldenia used their crushing jaws to dine on these spiny, stalked and hard - shelled creatures.

«Those Scottish fossil beds have four or five known genera of ray - finned fish in them.

Something similar happened to ray - finned fish, which have fins supported by long, bony rods arranged in a ray pattern.

Lungfish are members of an ancient group of lobe - finned fishes (Class Dipnoi), having a continuous fossil record originating in the Devonian period around 400 million years ago.

In a paper published in the journal PLOS ONE, MDI Biological Laboratory scientists Benjamin L. King, Ph.D., and Voot P. Yin, Ph.D., identified these common genetic regulators in three regenerative species: the zebrafish, a common aquarium fish originally from India; the axolotl, a salamander native to the lakes of Mexico; and the bichir, a ray - finned fish from Africa.

To investigate, Sparks, Davis, and other scientists from the University of Kansas and Johnson County Community College reconstructed a tree of life for ray - finned fishes with a particular focus on the evolution of bioluminescence.

Thousands of fossilized semionotid fish (pdf)(ray - finned fish extinct since the Cretaceous) have been found in the area; their hard, enamel - coated scales would account for the wear found on dinosaur teeth recovered nearby.