单词 | ballan wrasse |
释义 | > as lemmasballan wrasse In full ballan wrasse. A marine fish, Labrus bergylta (family Labridae), found among rocks and seaweeds in the north-eastern Atlantic, and highly variable in colour though often green or red-brown with white mottling.The largest wrasse of British and Irish waters, the ballan wrasse is one of the few species in which all are born female, with some mature individuals becoming males. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > fish > superorder Acanthopterygii (spiny fins) > order Perciformes (perches) > suborder Labrioidei (wrasse) > [noun] > family Labridae > genus Labrus > member of breama1475 thrush-fish1601 ballana1705 yellowfish1734 comber1769 sea-swine1803 cuckoo-fish1884 hogfish1898 a1705 J. Ray Itineraries in Select Remains (1760) 243 Great Variety of Fish taken near to this Town [sc. Tenby], viz. Cod, Ling,..Ballon, Smelts, Lobsters. 1769 T. Pennant Brit. Zool. (new ed.) III. App. 343 Ballan. This is a kind of Wrasse, sent from Scarborough by Mr. Travis. 1839 Penny Cycl. XIII. 261/1 The Ballan Wrasse..is about eighteen inches long, of a red colour above, pale orange beneath. 1863 Proc. Royal Physical Soc. Edinb. 1859–52 2 150 The ballan wrasse was a rare fish in our Firth, and was found generally on rocky coasts. 1912 W. Tibbles Foods viii. 222 The British wrasses are the striped wrasse (Labrus mixtus), the ballan (L. maculatus), connor (Crenilabrus melops), [etc.]. 1992 Q. Rev. Biol. 67 438/2 (caption) Pipefish..preyed upon by a guild of predators, including sculpins, ballan wrasses, and cod. < as lemmas |
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