What's the difference between devilfish and goosefish?

Devilfish


Definition:

  • (n.) A huge ray (Manta birostris / Cephaloptera vampyrus) of the Gulf of Mexico and Southern Atlantic coasts. Several other related species take the same name. See Cephaloptera.
  • (n.) A large cephalopod, especially the very large species of Octopus and Architeuthis. See Octopus.
  • (n.) The gray whale of the Pacific coast. See Gray whale.
  • (n.) The goosefish or angler (Lophius), and other allied fishes. See Angler.

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Goosefish


Definition:

  • (n.) See Angler.

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  • (1) The beta tubulins of the fishes, with the exception of the goosefish, resolved into major and minor variants with mobilities similar to those of beta 1 and beta 2 tubulins from bovine brain.
  • (2) Here we compare the structures of tubulin subunits from three Antarctic fishes (Notothenia gibberifrons, Notothenia coriiceps neglecta, and Chaenocephalus aceratus), from three temperate fishes (the dogfish shark Mustelus canis, the channel catfish Ictalurus punctatus, and the goosefish Lophius americanus), and from a mammal (the cow Bos taurus).
  • (3) The renal handling of 2,2-bis(p-chlorophenyl) acetic acid (DDA) was examined in the isolated tubules of the winter flounder (Pseudopleuronectes americanus) in vitro in conjunction with clearance studies in the flounder and in the aglomerular goosefish (Lophius americanus).
  • (4) Islet tissue from the goosefish (Lophius piscatorius) was incubated in the presence of leucine-H(3).
  • (5) Prominent in the Antarctic fish tubulins was an alpha variant that migrated more rapidly than the bovine alpha chain; smaller amounts of a rapidly migrating alpha chain were also present in catfish and goosefish tubulins.
  • (6) When reduced, carboxymethylated, and examined by polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis, multiple alpha chains were observed in tubulins from the Antarctic fishes, the catfish, and the goosefish; dogfish and bovine alpha tubulins migrated as single components on this gel system.

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