Word: killifish
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...belongs in that company. Like Blake seeing a world in a grain of sand, Professor Janovy discerns universes in the creeks, bogs and fields of the Sandhills country. He makes the reader care for creatures as large as the great blue heron, as small as the inch-long plains killifish, and as obscure as the parasites of the genus Trich-odina that live in the minnow's gills. "Early on," writes Janovy, "the killifish was shown to be not a fish but a community, and the community itself encompasses both the artist and the laborer, both the classic...
...FISH. Shortnose sturgeon, longjaw cisco, Piute, greenback and Montana west-slope cutthroat trout, Gila and Apache trout, the desert and Moapa dace, humpback chub, Colorado River squawfish, Cui-ui, Devils Hole, Comanche Springs and Owens River pupfish, Pahrump killifish, Gila top minnow, Maryland darter and blue pike...
...John T. Nichols, of the American Museum of Natural History of New York, will be the guest of honor of the Natural History Society at 52 Mt. Auburn street tonight at 8 o'clock. He will speak on the subject of "Killifish in Cuba, Florida, and elsewhere." Mr. Nichols has had wide experience in the southern seas, North Atlantic and Pacific, and is especially noted for his investigations of tropical fishes. At hearty invitation is extended to all members of the University...
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