Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A common name given to Caprodon longimanus, a serranoid fish found in Australian waters.
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- noun Any member of the
family Plesiopidae ofelongated perciform fish .
Etymologies
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Examples
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The New Zealand longfin eel, is one of the most important creatures in the faith of the New Zealand Maori, and one of the longest-lived and largest freshwater fishes in the world (they can grown seven feet long, and have been aged at 104 years).
James Prosek: 'Eels': The World's Most Mysterious Fish James Prosek 2010
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The New Zealand longfin eel, is one of the most important creatures in the faith of the New Zealand Maori, and one of the longest-lived and largest freshwater fishes in the world (they can grown seven feet long, and have been aged at 104 years).
James Prosek: 'Eels': The World's Most Mysterious Fish James Prosek 2010
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In New Zealand, western scientists are trying to outfit large migratory eels with tags in order to track them on their oceanic journeys and find the place where they reproduce (in the case of the longfin eel the spawning location is thought to be over a thousand miles north near the island of New Caledonia).
James Prosek: 'Eels': The World's Most Mysterious Fish James Prosek 2010
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In New Zealand, western scientists are trying to outfit large migratory eels with tags in order to track them on their oceanic journeys and find the place where they reproduce (in the case of the longfin eel the spawning location is thought to be over a thousand miles north near the island of New Caledonia).
James Prosek: 'Eels': The World's Most Mysterious Fish James Prosek 2010
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In New Zealand, western scientists are trying to outfit large migratory eels with tags in order to track them on their oceanic journeys and find the place where they reproduce (in the case of the longfin eel the spawning location is thought to be over a thousand miles north near the island of New Caledonia).
James Prosek: 'Eels': The World's Most Mysterious Fish James Prosek 2010
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The New Zealand longfin eel, is one of the most important creatures in the faith of the New Zealand Maori, and one of the longest-lived and largest freshwater fishes in the world (they can grown seven feet long, and have been aged at 104 years).
James Prosek: 'Eels': The World's Most Mysterious Fish James Prosek 2010
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In New Zealand, western scientists are trying to outfit large migratory eels with tags in order to track them on their oceanic journeys and find the place where they reproduce (in the case of the longfin eel the spawning location is thought to be over a thousand miles north near the island of New Caledonia).
James Prosek: 'Eels': The World's Most Mysterious Fish James Prosek 2010
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The New Zealand longfin eel, is one of the most important creatures in the faith of the New Zealand Maori, and one of the longest-lived and largest freshwater fishes in the world (they can grown seven feet long, and have been aged at 104 years).
James Prosek: 'Eels': The World's Most Mysterious Fish James Prosek 2010
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But whether today or a month from now, there's a good chance that restrictions will be imposed to prevent a problem from occurring, whether because of longfin smelt or because of one of the other endangered and threatened fish that the pumps put at risk.
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The regulatory process is designed to keep these the fish from being sucked into the pumps, which has been a significant source of mortality: DFG estimates that more than 1.5 million adult and juvenile longfin smelt, and millions more larvae, have been killed by the water projects since 1993.
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