What's the difference between blenny and wrymouth?
Blenny
Definition:
(n.) A marine fish of the genus Blennius or family Blenniidae; -- so called from its coating of mucus. The species are numerous.
Example Sentences:
(1) At high venom doses, blennies had higher survival times than pomacentrids, and in the latter group Dascyllus survived longer than did species of Chromis.
(2) First, are histological specializations of the hook field responsible for the impairment of the regenerative capacity of pectoral fins of blennies?
(3) The retinal topography of Nissl-stained cells within the ganglion cell layer in each species reveals a temporal (4.32 x 10(4) cells per mm2) and a nasal (3.83 x 10(4) cells per mm2) area centralis in the rippled blenny and two temporal areae centrales (8.30 x 10(4) and 8.00 x 10(4) cells per mm2) and a horizontal streak (5.00 x 10(4) cells per mm2) in the tusk fish.
(4) The retinae of two species of teleosts, the rippled blenny Istiblennius edentulus and the blue tusk fish Choerodon albigena are examined in wholemount.
(5) In case of common secretory specialization, it can be a) isomorphous--at identical convertion of the epithelium in the whole follicle (for example, in sheatfish), b) dimorphous--when there is a certain difference in the character and degree of secretory specialization of the follicular epithelium in various follicular areas (for example in Myxine glutinosa); 2) unipolar secondary transformation when the follicular epithelium undergoes secondary flattening or secretory specialization only in the area adjacent to one of the oocyte poles (for example, in Lametra fluviatilis and Blennis follis).
(6) The effects of ethylenediamine-tetraacetic acid (EDTA), heparin and tri-sodium citrate (TSC) on various haematological parameters in the blenny, Blennius pholis, were investigated.
(7) The pectoral fin of blennies is differentiated into a dorsal field and a ventral hook field.
(8) The LD50 values and survival times of three pomacentrid species and two blennies were measured after being subjected to the venom of one of their predators, the olive sea snake, Aipysurus laevis.
(9) The Mediterranean blenny Blennius rouxi has been studied mainly in the Banyuls-sur-Mer region.
(10) In part, this may be related to differences between blennies and pomacentrids in degree of cutaneous respiration.
Wrymouth
Definition:
(n.) Any one of several species of large, elongated, marine fishes of the genus Cryptacanthodes, especially C. maculatus of the American coast. A whitish variety is called ghostfish.