bristlemouth
Americannoun
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bristlemouth,
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bristlemouths
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Origin of bristlemouth
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The genus has 13 species, such as the shadow bristlemouth.
From New York Times ● Jun. 29, 2015
Though the portrait of the bristlemouth is incomplete, scientists know enough to confidently assert that it far outstrips all other contenders for the title of most common vertebrate on the planet.
From New York Times ● Jun. 29, 2015
Predators of the bristlemouth turn out to include dragon fish and fangtooths, denizens of the abyss with daggerlike teeth.
From New York Times ● Jun. 29, 2015
The tiny fish known as the bristlemouth is part of a detective story that bears on everything from feeding the planet and monitoring ocean health to learning how to better predict climate change.
From New York Times ● Jun. 29, 2015
It has taken roughly a century and a half, but science has finally come to know the bristlemouth and its ranks of trillions fairly well, even if questions remain.
From New York Times ● Jun. 29, 2015
Millions of dollars are being spent on research and trial fisheries targeting abundant pelagic fish, such as lanternfish and bristlemouths, in Europe, particularly Norway.
From National Geographic ● Feb. 13, 2024
Ocean textbooks from the 1970s to the 1990s said little about Cyclothone, the main genus of bristlemouths.
From New York Times ● Jun. 29, 2015
No matter how far the nets plunged, up came vast numbers of bristlemouths.
From New York Times ● Jun. 29, 2015
The bristlemouths are a rapacious family of deep-sea fishes that include the wildly successful genus Cyclothone — Greek for “circular,” in apparent reference to the creature’s gaping mouth.
From New York Times ● Jun. 29, 2015
It also harbored many fish, but apparently few bristlemouths, which managed to avoid the nightly swim to the surface.
From New York Times ● Jun. 29, 2015
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