toadfish

1 “It’s a tough world out there for toadfish. You’ve got to sing as best as you can.”

2 They contained local species such as porgies, striped bass, blackfish and one mean-looking oyster toadfish.

3 In all, the trawls caught 14 fish species, including spotted batfish, leopard toadfish and a lined seahorse, and 31 invertebrate species, including 17 sponge species, five crab species, two whelk species and two starfish species.

4 How do you know when a male toadfish is looking for love?

5 Who would have thought that a humble mud-dwelling toadfish would give scientists so much to say about vocal communication?

6 My most recent addition to the list was the very common oyster toadfish that so many bottom fishermen curse and complain about.

7 Here’s an audio file of an oyster toadfish having its say.

8 The cries of two closely related toadfish species with single swim bladders were also decidedly linear, the group found, confirming the finding.

9 Another worrisome invader is the puffer fish, sometimes known as the silver-cheeked toadfish, which releases a neurotoxin that can harm other fish and humans who consume it.

10 Each male toadfish vibrated his swim bladder to make his own song, in other words, and each was composed of a combination of two basic notes—boops and grunts.

11 The invention provides a medicine treating tympanitis, which comprises 100g fresh eel blood, 10g earthworm dried powder, 5g musk dried powder, 2g toadfish dried powder and 50g French chalk.

本发明提出是一种治疗中耳炎的药物。由鲜鳝鱼血100克、蚯蚓干粉10克、麝香干粉5克、蟾酥干粉2克和滑石粉50克组成。

12 In this lab image, the toadfish's twin bladders are visible in the middle of its body.

13 This bioluminescent toadfish, which is native to Pacific coastal waters, produces a didgeridoo-like hum.

14 Scientists have been studying toadfish since the 1800s, and the animals have helped us understand everything from insulin production to inner ear physiology to acoustic communication.

15 No one had ever recorded the Bocon, one of 70 toadfish species worldwide.

16 Their children recalled weekends on Fire Island, where Dr. Salzinger often spent his time trying to train toadfish, rather than frolicking on the beach.

17 Oyster toadfish hum and blare like foghorns by quickly contracting muscles attached to their swim bladders.

18 Now, if they'd said bull-terriers," he said, "I might have had my doubts, but a bulldog's no more dangerous than a toadfish.

19 When I was a child on Long Island, I would hear toadfish croaking through the thin hull of my aluminum rowboat.

20 Because toadfish first evolved so long ago, Bass concluded that this particular neural circuit is likely 400 million years old—almost as old as vertebrates themselves.

1 鲀

foolfish

2 华脐鱼

angler anglerfish sea devil

3 琵琶鱼

angler anglerfish

4 同PUFFERFISH.

toady toby

5 河豚

puffer blow-fish globefish balloonfish

6 蟾鱼

midshipman