why are batfish called batfish?
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Batfish #1: Chaetodipterus faber The Atlantic Spadefish gets its name from its body shape which is similar to the spade in a deck of cards. These large fish can reach almost 1 meter in size and live on average for 5 years (although there are reports of some living to nearly twenty!).
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Pufferfish can inflate into a ball shape to evade predators. Also known as blowfish, these clumsy swimmers fill their elastic stomachs with huge amounts of water (and sometimes air) and blow themselves up to several times their normal size. Some pufferfish species also have spines on their skin to ward off predators.
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Betta fish (Betta splendens) are also called Siamese fighting fish for their native range and aggressive nature. ... These fish are highly aggressive, and males will fight one another, often to the death. Even females can be aggressive, though they are usually more social than males.
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The truth is that vampire bats got their names from human myths about vampires. In many human cultures, vampires are people who return from the dead to feed on the blood of living people. After the bats were discovered by European explorers, they were given the name vampire, denoting blood-feeding.
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The Australian box jellyfish is considered the most venomous marine animal. ... Box jellyfish, named for their body shape, have tentacles covered in biological booby traps known as nematocysts - tiny darts loaded with poison.
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A group of bats is sometimes called a cauldron. Bat groups are also called a colony when in a large cave or a cloud when a large group is in flight. Now You Know Your Animal Groups!
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Flying foxes and blossom bats belong in a group scientists call Megabats. They are also often known as 'fruit bats' as they love to feed on fruit, flowers and nectar. They were called 'flying foxes' because their heads look similar to those of foxes.
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Unlike whales, sharks are not mammals but belong to a group of cartilaginous fishes. The whale shark (Rhinodon typus) earns the name “whale” solely because of its size.
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The stingrays are a unique group of fishes often referred to as "flattened sharks" as they are close cousins to sharks. ... The caudal "barb" or "spine" is actually a modified scale known as "dermal denticles" on sharks and rays.
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No- bats are mammals, and mammals have hair/fur. Birds, like pigeons and crows, have feathers. ... The skin between bats' fingers (all the way down to the thigh bone) grows like a thin membrane that they can use to glide and flap their arms with.
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The hogfish is not a hog snapper. Yes, both names identify the same fish, but the slang name hog snapper is a misnomer. The hogfish is not even in the snapper family. Hogfish are from the wrasse family.
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Like bass, it is a freshwater fish, but it's not related to that species. It is a type of catfish and its Latin name is Pangasius bocourti. ... Basa, also called swai and a few other names, is native to Southeast Asia.
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The terms shrimp and prawn originated in Britain. In the use of common names for species, shrimp is applied to smaller species, particularly species that are dorsoventrally depressed (wider than deep) with a shorter rostrum.
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Lampreys and hagfish, which together are known as the cyclostomes or 'agnathans', are the only surviving lineages of jawless fish. They diverged early in vertebrate evolution, before the origin of the hinged jaws that are characteristic of gnathostome (jawed) vertebrates and before the evolution of paired appendages.
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Betta, /ˈbɛtə/ is a large genus of small, often colorful, freshwater ray-finned fishes, known as "bettas", in the gourami family (Osphronemidae). The best known Betta species is B. splendens, commonly known as the Siamese fighting fish.
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Bats, although sometimes demonized in horror movies and on Halloween, are actually of considerable benefit to humanity. Nature magazine explains that we need bats because they eat insects, pollinate crops and even help to fertilize crops with their guano.
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FAMILY DINNER. Mobula rays tend to swim in schools of a hundred or more fish, especially while feeding. These marine animals snack on tiny fish and small sea creatures called zooplankton. They eat by scooping prey into their mouths with the floppy lobes that hang from either side of their heads.