What's the difference between batfish and catfish?
Batfish
Definition:
(n.) A name given to several species of fishes: (a) The Malthe vespertilio of the Atlantic coast. (b) The flying gurnard of the Atlantic (Cephalacanthus spinarella). (c) The California batfish or sting ray (Myliobatis Californicus.)
Example Sentences:
(1) The temperature dependency of protein synthesis was studied in vivo in five species of Pacific fish collected in the Galapagos and Perlas Islands: batfish (Ogcocephalus darwini), groupers (Epinephelus labriformis), catfish (Netuma platypogan), puffers (Arothron hispidus) and triggerfish (Sufflamen verres).
(2) Fish species considered ciguatoxic includes red emperor, red snapper, roundfaced batfish, barracuda and blue lined sea-bream.
Catfish
Definition:
(n.) A name given in the United States to various species of siluroid fishes; as, the yellow cat (Amiurus natalis); the bind cat (Gronias nigrilabrus); the mud cat (Pilodictic oilwaris), the stone cat (Noturus flavus); the sea cat (Arius felis), etc. This name is also sometimes applied to the wolf fish. See Bullhrad.
Example Sentences:
(1) Microsomal UDP-glucuronosyltransferases (UDPGTs) and cytosolic glutathione S-transferases (GSTs) were examined in bluegill (Lepomis macrochirus R.) and channel catfish (Ictalurus punctatus R.) liver.
(2) It appears that channel catfish B cell mIg capping, presumably a requisite for immune function, can be significantly affected by environmental temperatures; most likely such effects are attributable to changes in plasma membrane viscosities.
(3) In comparative assays, the CH50 titers of catfish sera were similar to the CH50 titers of human sera.
(4) The amino acid sequences of both forms of African catfish GnRH were determined using Edman degradation after digestion with pyroglutamyl aminopeptidase.
(5) We have observed in the catfish retina that cone horizontal cell perikarya and dendrites make conventional chemical synapses onto photoreceptor terminal telodendria and onto bipolar cell dendrites, while horizontal cell axon terminals make chemical synapses onto the perikarya and processes of amacrine cells.
(6) From these results we conclude that: adaptation in the catfish retina includes two components: a) a lateral shift of the voltage-intensity curve along the intensity axis, and b) changes in the time course of light-evoked response.
(7) In olfactory neurons isolated from the channel catfish, Ictalurus punctatus, stimulation with olfactory stimuli (amino acids) elicits an influx of calcium that leads to a rapid increase in intracellular calcium.
(8) ), an inhibitor of GSH biosynthesis, did not deplete hepatic GSH in channel catfish.
(9) Our objective was to identify VG in the channel catfish, Ictalurus punctatus.
(10) The endocrine pancreas of the bullhead catfish, Ictalurus nebulosus, and the channel catfish, I. punctatas was studied by light and electron microscopy.
(11) Anoxic incubation for varying periods of Isoparorchis hypselobagri from the swim bladder of the catfish Wallago attu, led to an accumulation of oxygen debt on the part of the parasite.
(12) This indicates that the neural representation of the external body surface of the channel catfish faces caudally in the FL.
(13) An estimate of the total mass of bone in the Channel catfish Ictalurus punctatus Rafinesque, was obtained by dissection.
(14) Taste receptors for L-alanine and L-arginine in the channel catfish, Ictalurus punctatus, are differentially reactive to N-ethylmaleimide (NEM) and p-chloromercuribenzenesulphonic acid (pCMBS).
(15) Blood cells from Baltic salmon, Salmo salar, three-spined stickleback, Gasterosteus aculeatus, eel pout, Zoarces viviparus, crucian carp, Carassius carassius, African catfish, Clarias gariepinus, and reedfish, Calamoichthys calabaricus, were incubated with tritiated 11 beta-hydroxyandrostenedione (OHA) or 11-ketoandrostenedione (OA).
(16) Catfish GH and PRL were identified by Western blotting with antisera against chum salmon GH and PRL.
(17) The cellular requirements for channel catfish MLR responses were assessed by using three functionally distinct leucocyte subpopulations isolated from the PBL.
(18) The Indian catfish, Heteropneusted fossilis, was chemically thyroidectomized with thiourea.
(19) Neither the concentrations of these three brain tissue substrates, nor L-GDH activity were significantly different between fish at the two locations even though the observed UIA concentrations were equivalent to concentrations which have been observed to increase glutamine concentration in brain tissue of catfish during exposures under laboratory conditions.
(20) Results from oral dose studies indicated that SDM is readily absorbed from the gastrointestinal tract in channel catfish and distributes rapidly to body tissues, primarily the muscle.