an American freshwater sturgeon, Scaphirhynchus platorynchus, having a broad shovel-like snout
Examples of 'shovelnose' in a sentence
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A strong link between the annual flood pulse and opaque zone formation was confirmed in tiger shovelnose catfish.
Alfredo Pérez, Nidia Noemí Fabré 2018, 'Life-history characteristics of Pseudoplatystoma metaense (Teleostei: Siluriformes:Pimelodidae) from the northwestern Orinoco River Basin', Neotropical Ichthyologyhttp://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1679-62252018000100209&lng=en&tlng=en. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)
The response behaviours used by sawfish and shovelnose rays depended on the location of the dipoles.
Barbara E Wueringer, Lyle Squire, Stephen M Kajiura, Ian R Tibbetts, Nathan S Hart,Shaun P Collin 2012, 'Electric field detection in sawfish and shovelnose rays.', PLoS ONEhttp://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3404968?pdf=render. Retrieved from PLOS CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)
The aim of this study was to obtain age, growth and population parameters of the of tiger shovelnose catfish.
Alfredo Pérez, Nidia Noemí Fabré 2018, 'Life-history characteristics of Pseudoplatystoma metaense (Teleostei: Siluriformes:Pimelodidae) from the northwestern Orinoco River Basin', Neotropical Ichthyologyhttp://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1679-62252018000100209&lng=en&tlng=en. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)