anabas
/an-uh-bas/US // ˈæn əˌbæs //UK // (ˈænəˌbæs) //
阿纳巴斯,阿那巴,安纳巴斯
Definitions
n.名词 noun
- 1
- : any small fish of the genus Anabas, of ponds and swamps in Africa and southeastern Asia.
Examples
The most celebrated example of this faculty, however, is the climbing perch (Anabas scandens) of India.
These labyrinthal water-chambers are particularly numerous and complicated in the Anabas just mentioned.
Like Anabas, the climbing perch, it possesses a suprabranchial accessory respiratory organ.
Thus, certain fishes related to the wonderful Anabas—the perch that climbs trees!
The fish which the moodliar sent to me proved to be an Anabas, and closely resembles the Perca scandens of Daldorf.
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