What's the difference between brackish and mummichog?
Brackish
Definition:
(a.) Saltish, or salt in a moderate degree, as water in saline soil.
Example Sentences:
(1) Cestode infections include diphyllobothriasis transmitted by both fresh water fish and fish from brackish waters.
(2) This paper intends to be a contribution to the study of the reproduction of the Rivulus cylindraceus, living in brackish waters of canals close to the coasts.
(3) The term is used to refer to removing salt from both seawater and subterranean “brackish” water, as well as the treatment of waste water (aka sewerage) to make it drinkable.
(4) Rainbow trout held in brackish water (15 parts per thousand) were starved or fed different amounts of food.
(5) The not yet solved and serious uncertainities which need priority in the research are, according to the speaker, the control of the amebiasis of hatchery rainbow trout, the incysted icthyophtiriasis of various fresh water fishes, the rainbow trout myxosomiasis (Whirling disease), and the argulosis of eel reared in brackish water lagoons.
(6) Based on a comparison of the individual acute values for chinook salmon to the expected environmental concentrations, the margin of safety for boron was only 56 in fresh and 46 in brackish water.
(7) farauti 1 which was often found breeding within 100 m of the sea in either brackish or freshwater habitats.
(8) The incidence of some of these infections could be lowered if people took care to avoid eating undercooked seafood, swimming in brackish water, or sustaining lacerations in a marine environment.
(9) Vibrio cholerae, an autochthonous member of brackish water and estuarine bacterial communities, also attaches to crustacea, a significant factor in multiplication and survival of V. cholerae in nature.
(10) An outbreak of poisoning from ingestion of purple clam (Hiatula diphos), obtained from a brackish fish-culture pond, occurred in southern Taiwan in early January 1986.
(11) Nearly 1,400 of them will be sailing in the waters near Marina da Gloria in Guanabara Bay, swimming off Copacabana beach, and canoeing and rowing on the brackish waters of the Rodrigo de Freitas Lake.
(12) Larvae of the other 2 species were not found in brackish water which accords with previous laboratory observations of their lower salinity tolerance.
(13) and fecal coliforms in a cove receiving sewage treatment effluent and draining into a brackish lagoon were studied for 34 months with sampling at six stations.
(14) The meals consisted of Finnish freshwater fish (87%) (vendace, pike, perch and rainbow trout) and brackish water fish (13%) (Baltic herring) that provided about 1 g of omega-3 polyunsaturated fatty acids per day (0.25 g eicosapentaenoic acid and 0.55 g docosahexaenoic acid).
(15) With the river, plain and brackish pools there was abundant food including prey animals, shellfish and edible plants.
(16) Rediae of 2 size groups were present in the digestive gland of the brackish-water snail, Cerithidea californica.
(17) Fresh water was running out, and the share of brackish water was rising.
(18) Its larvae, living in brackish waters of coastal lagoons, can devour those of Ceratopogonidae and at least young stages of those of Mosquitoes whose some halophilic species are dangerous vectors of diseases.
(19) On this occasion, this species was found in a pound of brackish water and abundant vegetation, known as La Redonda, located in the Morón municipality, Ciego de Avila.
(20) In general, young fish tested in fresh water were more sensitive to the individual elements and the two mixtures than were advanced fry tested in brackish water.
Mummichog
Definition:
(n.) Any one of several species of small American cyprinodont fishes of the genus Fundulus, and of allied genera; the killifishes; -- called also minnow.
Example Sentences:
(1) Freshwater adapted mummichogs (Fundulus heteroclitus) were exposed to cadmium.
(2) Additionally, they suggest that the mummichog may be a useful indicator of exposure to carcinogens in aquatic environments.
(3) Male mummichogs had 12-hr cycles in serum 17 beta-hydroxy-4-androstene-3,11-dione levels, the peaks of which preceded high tide by 4 hr.
(4) Slight sex differences were observed in the sensitivity of mummichogs to each of the OP insecticides with male fish being marginally more sensitive.
(5) Bihourly sampling of field populations during a 72-hr period at the new moon showed both diel cycling and an upward trend in serum progesterone levels in female mummichogs.
(6) Embryos of the mummichog (Fundulus heteroclitus) were allowed to develop in culture dishes in which CCA-treated or untreated wood was soaking.
(7) The expression of cytochrome P450IA1 was examined in hepatic lesions of mummichog (Fundulus heteroclitus), a small, non-migratory teleost fish collected from a site in the Elizabeth River, VA, heavily contaminated with polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAH) of creosote origin.
(8) The acute toxicity of two organophosphorus (OP) insecticides, azinphosmethyl and acephate, was evaluated in the mummichog, Fundulus heteroclitus.
(9) High prevalences of idiopathic hepatic lesions were found in mummichog, Fundulus heteroclitus, from a site in the southern branch of the Elizabeth River, VA, contaminated with polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons.
(10) The effects of several steroids on the maturation of follicle-enclosed oocytes of the mummichog Fundulus heteroclitus in vitro were examined.
(11) These findings indicate a strong positive association between exposure to creosote-contaminated sediments and the high prevalence of hepatic neoplasms in a feral population of mummichog and support the putative role of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons in fish hepatocarcinogenesis.
(12) Mean concentrations of PCB's increased in the clapper rail, remained the same in the fiddler crab and mud snail, and decreased in the sheepshead minnow, mummichog, striped killifish, and salt marsh snail.
(13) The mummichog appears to be extremely well suited for monitoring environmental cadmium poisoning.
(14) A model is proposed to explain the reproductive cycle of male mummichogs.
(15) In the present study, mummichog (Fundulus heteroclitus L.) were collected from two sites in the Elizabeth River, VA that are heavily contaminated with PAH, and from a relatively unpolluted reference site in the York River, VA.
(16) Daily collections of the mummichog, Fundulus heteroclitus, from field populations during the first 45 days of the breeding season revealed a semilunar cycle in the sperm index.