lateral line in English

noun
1
a visible line along the side of a fish consisting of a series of sense organs that detect pressure and vibration.
Two to three scales bear a pore behind the inversion line until the lateral line ends at a caudal fin ray.

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1. Scales small, 114-130 in lateral line, 11-15 obliquely from adipose fin to lateral line.

2. In lateral line system …modified to become electroreceptors called Ampullae of Lorenzini

3. The outer, most lateral line, defining the "abs" is the linea semilunaris.

4. The gas bladder is absent in most species, and the lateral line is uninterrupted.

5. Burbot aren't strong swimmers, relying instead on camouflage and a sensitive lateral line to capture food.

6. The lateral line does not run the full length of the body and has gaps in it.

7. The lateral line system on the head consists of large cavities linked by narrow, bony bridges with small external pores.

8. Scales are Ctenoid and the number of scales on the lateral line ranges from 49 to 53 (Hubbs et al

9. Mullets are distinguished by the presence of two separate dorsal fins, small triangular mouths, and the absence of a lateral line organ.

10. In the Branchiosauria, the earliest of the true Amphibia (Euamphibia) and ancestral to the modern Caudata, the lateral-line system is known on the tails of two genera (462, 478) from the Mazon Creek, Illinois, shales—Micrerpeton and Eumicrerpeton.

11. The Ampullae of Lorenzini (Figures 3.15 and 3.35) are modified parts of the lateral line system (see later) and primarily sensitive to electrical fields (they can help a shark sense prey by detecting the electrical fields generated by activities of the prey).They form a series of tube-like structures just beneath and parallel to the skin

12. Carmine shiners are slender, elongate minnows that can be distinguished from other minnows in Manitoba by the following features: 1) the origin of the dorsal fin is located behind a line drawn vertically from the insertion of the pelvic fins, 2) absence of a fleshy keel on the abdomen and of a strongly decurved lateral line, 3) a narrowly conical snout that is equal in length, or nearly so, to their eye diameter, 4) 5-7 short gill rakers on the lower limb of the first gill arch, the longest being about as long as the width of its base, and 5) 4 slender, hooked, main row pharyngeal teeth (Stewart and Watkinson 2004; K.W. Stewart, Univ. of Manitoba, Winnipeg, pers. comm. 2005) (Figure 2).