What's the difference between billfish and needlefish?
Billfish
Definition:
(n.) A name applied to several distinct fishes
(n.) The garfish (Tylosurus, / Belone, longirostris) and allied species.
(n.) The saury, a slender fish of the Atlantic coast (Scomberesox saurus).
(n.) The Tetrapturus albidus, a large oceanic species related to the swordfish; the spearfish.
(n.) The American fresh-water garpike (Lepidosteus osseus).
Example Sentences:
(1) That would eliminate a shark because they have cartilage, and on that basis it was likely one of the billfish."
(2) Two theoretical approaches may be considered for studying the age of billfish: Age may be delineated in terms of the passage of time (chronological age), or may be examined as the progression of physiological development (physiological age).
(3) Many factors contribute to hinder progress in estimating and verifying age, growth, and life history strategies of billfishes.
(4) In calcified tissues, this information can be obtained when the proper techniques are used to investigate the structural and chemical components of billfish hard parts.
(5) The ELISA for sailfish correctly identified eight sailfish from 26 billfish serum samples.
(6) Utilization of structural and chemical analyses of billfish otoliths, vertebrae, and other hard parts, enables specific phases of growth to be linked to environmental occurrences.
(7) In most billfishes, citrate synthase activities were similar to or higher than those found for mammalian cardiac and avian flight muscle.
(8) We were able to differentiate between species of billfish (Istiophoridae family) and to detect considerable intraspecific variation in the blue marlin (Makaira nigricans) by directly sequencing a polymerase chain reaction (PCR)-amplified, 612-bp fragment of the mitochondrial cytochrome b gene.
(9) Istiophorid billfishes (blue marlin, striped marlin and Mediterranean spearfish), xiphiid billfishes (Pacific and Mediterranean stocks) and a scombrid fish (butterfly mackerel) were included in the analysis.
Needlefish
Definition:
(n.) The European great pipefich (Siphostoma, / Syngnathus, acus); -- called also earl, and tanglefish.
(n.) The garfish.
Example Sentences:
(1) A traumatic internal carotid-cavernous sinus fistula due to a penetrating injury caused by a needlefish is described.