neuromast


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neuromast

[′nu̇r·ō‚mast]
(vertebrate zoology)
A lateral-line sensory organ in fishes and other lower vertebrates consisting of a cluster of receptor cells connected with nerve fibers.
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Supraorbital bar black, with distinctive narrow extension over the neuromast parietal series.
Austrolebias bagual a new species of annual fish cyprinodontiformes: rivulidae) from southern brazil
2009), and neuromast cells have elevated expression levels of esr2 genes (Froehlicher et al.
Biosensor zebrafish provide new insights into potential health effects of environmental estrogens
00): (0) continuous row; (1) posteriormost neuromast separated by space covered by scale.
Relationships and taxonomy of the killifish genus Rivulus (Cyprinodontiformes: Aplocheiloidei: Rivulidae) from the Brazilian Amazonas river basin, with notes on historical ecology
Fish pick up water movements--like the kicks of an insect just right for lunch or the whoosh of an incoming predator--through sensory cells called neuromasts.
Shielded cells help fish ignore noise
One neuromast on center of each scale of lateral line of trunk, sometimes absent in few scales.
A new papiliokbias species teleostei: cyprinodontiformes: rivulidae from bolivian amazon
However, there is no information about neuromast in the larvae of these two species, except for the observation of small mechanoreceptor protuberances located along the sides of the body in larval anchoveta by Fischer (1958).
Desarrollo de neuromastos libres en larvas tempranas de Engraulis ringens y Strangomera bentincki (Teleostei, Clupeiformes)
marmoratus (Poey), with which they share the presence of four neuromasts on the posterior supraorbital series, a long anterior nostril, and a bony laminar ventral process on the fifth ceratobranchial; K.
Redescription of Kryptolebias ocellatus (Hensel) and K. caudomarginatus (Seegers) (Teleostei: Cyprinodontiformes: Rivulidae), two killifishes from mangroves of south-eastern Brazil
Despite repeated searching with a good microscope and excellent lighting in 1986, when it was still relatively fresh, I could not detect laterosensory pores or neuromast papillae on the head of the holotype or other specimens of L.
Leptophilypnion, a new genus with two new species of tiny central Amazonian gobioid fishes (Teleostei, Eleotridae)
ugandensis, and a different posterior supraorbital neuromast series (with two neuromasts vs.
Nothobranchius kardashevi and Nothobranchius ivanovae (Cyprinodontiformes: Nothobranchiidae): two new annual killifishes from the Katuma River drainage, western Tanzania
Mechanical filtering by the boundary layer and fluid-structure interaction in the superficial neuromast of the fish lateral line system.
Swarming, diel movements, feeding and cleaning behavior of juvenile venomous eeltail catfishes, Plotosus lineatus and P. japonicus (Siluriformes: Plotosidae)
Terminology for the cephalic neuromast series follows Scheel (1968), and that for the frontal squamation as described in Hoedeman (1958).
Nothobranchius oestergaardi (Cyprinodontiformes: Nothobranchiidae), a new annual killifish from Mweru Wantipa Lake drainage basin, northern Zambia
Terminology for the cephalic neuromast series follows Scheel (1968) and that for the frontal squamation follows Hoedeman (1958).
Nothobranchius boklundi (Cyprinodontiformes: Nothobranchiidae): a new annual killifish with two male colour morphs from the Luangwa River basin, Zambia

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