plecoglossidとは 意味・読み方・使い方

名詞

plecoglossid (複数形 plecoglossids)

1. (zoology) Any fish of the family Plecoglossidae (sometimes regarded as a subfamily, Plecoglossinae in Osmeridae); the ayu or sweetfish.
   • 1984, Excerpta Medica, Section 3: Endocrinology, Volume 51, page 251,

     Furthermore, the antibody to sPRL reacted only with PRL cells in the pituitaries of three species of salmonids, a plecoglossid, eel, carp, goldfish, killifish, tilapia, and five species of marine fishes, […] .

   • 1986, Southwest Fisheries Center (U.S.), Collected Reprints, Issue 1, page 370,

     Iwai & Rosenthal (1981), and Watanabe (1984b) have observed ciliated cells and cilia movement that aid in the transport of food in the alimentary canals of some plecoglossid, osmerid, clupeid, and salangid larvae.

   • 1988, Robert Montgomery McDowall, Diadromy in Fishes, page 33,

     Families included here include prototroctids, most diadromous galaxiids, a plecoglossid, mugiloidid, and some eleotrids and gobiids.

使用する際の注意点

A single genus and species is recognised. Some authories recognise three subspecies of Plecoglossus altivelis, but this division is disputed.

同意語

• (species of family Plecoglossidae): ayu, sweetfish

参照

• Ayu on Wikipedia.
• Plecoglossidae on Wikispecies.
• Plecoglossidae on Wikimedia Commons.