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Arapaima



[CITIES-listed Endangered Species]
ADW: Arapaima gigas: Information: Arapaima gigas (giant arapaima). ... Suborder: Osteoglossoidei. Family: Osteoglossidae.
http://animaldiversity.ummz.umich.edu/site/accounts/pictures/Arapaima_gigas.html

ADW: Arapaima gigas: Pictures: Arapaima gigas (giant arapaima). Information; Pictures; Classification. giant arapaima
http://nationalzoo.si.edu/Animals/Amazonia/Facts/arapaimafacts.cfm

Arapaima Facts - National Zoo| FONZ: Arapaima Facts. Order: Osteoglossiformes Family: Osteoglossidae Genus and
http://nationalzoo.si.edu/Animals/Amazonia/Facts/

Amazonia Species Facts - National Zoo| FONZ: Fact Sheets. Amazon Basin. Arapaima. Geoffroy's Marmoset. Golden-headed Lion
http://pdacrsp.oregonstate.edu/aquanews/fall2002/p13.html

PD/A CRSP Aquanews-Summer 2002: Arapaima Pond Culture by the Small-Scale Fish Producers of the Peruvian Amazon.
http://machaut.uchicago.edu/cgi-bin/WEBSTER.sh?WORD=Arapaima

ARTFL Project: Webster Dictionary, 1913: ARTFL Project: Webster Dictionary, 1913. Searching for: "arapaima" Found
http://elib.cs.berkeley.edu/cgi/img_query?where-lifeform=Fish&where-namesoup=Arapaima&rel-namesoup=matchphrase

elib.cs.berkeley.edu/cgi/img_query?where-lifeform=Fish&where-namesoup=Arapaima&rel-namesoup=matchphrase: Similar pages Size
http://www.rsmas.miami.edu/support/lib/seas/seasQA/QAs/s/size.html

Species, freshwater: The arapaima, (Arapaima gigas) which is reported to reach a length of 15 feet and
http://www.unu.edu/unupress/unupbooks/80877e/80877E0i.htm

Ch18: Already large catfishes are rare, and choice species like Arapaima gigas and Mylossoma
http://eol.sdsc.edu/perl/tax_beta.pl?type=down&val=7898

PAT NCBI Taxonomy Browser: 91720, Heterotis niloticus, species. *****27723, Arapaima,
http://www.umich.edu/~bio440/TOLEDOTRIP.HTML

TOLEDO AQUARIUM VISIT: Lepisosteus platostomus. Teleostei: Osteoglossomorpha: Osteoglossidae--bonytongues,
http://www.umich.edu/~bio440/lecture3movies.html

Movies from Lecture 3, Actinopterygian Diversity: Polyodon the paddlefish small large. Sturgeon barbels small large. Sturgeon
http://people.hofstra.edu/faculty/christopher_p_sanford/Arapaima_film.html

Sanford Web Page: Osteoglossomorpha. This is a strike of a South American pirarucu (Arapaima gigas).
http://texinfo.library.unt.edu/texasregister/html/1996/Sep-17/PROPOSED/natural-resources-and-conservation.html

TITLE natural-resources-and-conservation: ...gagei; (B) Freshwater Stingrays Family: Potamotrygonidae–all species;
http://biology.unm.edu/biology/fishes/people/lectures/lecture13.htm

lecture13: Family Osteoglossidae. (7 spp.) found in tropical rivers; Physostomous swim bladder,
http://www.math.toronto.edu/jjchew/software/qz/notes.txt

aa +"bghlmnsvw" +"i"#<p>aa: bm#=hls b+l(s) b+s h+f(s) h+r(s) -hs k ...: ...n the Old World as a biological region aaaaikmn +"s" +""#p>kamaaina: =s<p>KAMAAINA*
http://www.nbb.cornell.edu/neurobio/hopkins/eodrecog/mormyrid_phylogeny.htm

mormyrid_phylogeny: Osteoglossomorpha - (bony tongues: Arawana, Arapaima, Heterotis, African Butterfly
http://www.sp.uconn.edu/~eschultz/System5.html

Systematics of major fish groups V: Class Actinopterygii, Division Teleostei, Subdivision Osteoglossomorpha: O.
http://www.natzoo.si.edu/Animals/Amazonia/Exhibit/animals.cfm

Animals in the Amazonia Exhibit - National Zoo| FONZ: Related Resources, Tropical Ecosystems Research. ADOPT an Arapaima! Travel with
http://www.flmnh.ufl.edu/fish/tropical/JSA/field.htm

Field Collections and Species Inventories, Tropical Ichthyology ...: The depletion of populations from commercial fishing is a serious problem for larger
http://www.flmnh.ufl.edu/gymnotus/gymnotus.htm

Gymnotus - Gymnotus: New Species: TS, BF. B. G. stenoleucus Mago-Leccia, 1994. EA, GU. TS, BF. C. G. arapaima Albert
http://www.esf.edu/efb/stewart/graduate.htm

Dr. Donald Stewart: Faculty of Environmental and Forest Biology: Castello, Leandro; Ph.D. (co-advisor w/ C. Hall); Ecology and conservation
http://golab.unl.edu/projects/actinopterygii/actino.html

Ray-finned Fish Systematics: Division Teleostei ----. Osteoglossomorpha. 5. Order Osteoglossiformes: Osteoglossum,
http://www.blaine.wednet.edu/bes/class/berg/Endangered%20Species.htm

Endangered Species: Tiger Beetle. Tooth Cave Spider. Fish. Chinese Paddlefish. Silver Shark. Arapaima.
http://collections.ucsd.edu/mv/fish_collection/osteo.html

Class Myxini: Order Amiiformes. Amiidae. Amia calva Linnaeus [c]. Order Osteoglossiformes.
http://lsvl.la.asu.edu/bio370/jfouquette/outlines2/vz2.08.rayfins.html

Outlines Part 2: Ray finned fishes: See a photo and read about one of these large, primitive Pirarucu (or Arapaima);
http://biodiversity.uno.edu/~neodat/MZUSPgen.html

List of Genera from MZUSP: Aphanotorulus Aphos Aphredoderus Aphyocharax Apistogramma Apistoloricaria Apogon
http://biodiversity.uno.edu/~neodat/UMMZgen.html

List of Genera from UMMZ: Anthias Apareiodon Aphanotorulus Aphyocharax Aphyodite Apistogramma Aplodactylus
http://www.d.umn.edu/~amensing/Animal%20Physiology%202002/2001ExamI.htm

Name_____: Foramen ovale. Ductus arteriosus. Arapaima. Na+/K+ ATPase pump. Protopterus. Pacemaker.
http://www.d.umn.edu/~amensing/Animal%20Physiology%202002/2000examI.htm

Given a muscle with the following properties ( all in mm ): ...(Hint: it may be helpful to draw the circulatory flow in the mammal) (8 pts). Explain
http://www.columbia.edu/cu/cup/catalog/data/023105/0231051565.HTM

Man, Fishes, and the Amazon; ; Nigel JH Smith: The largest of tropical rivers, the Amazon is also home to more species of fish -
http://www.news.harvard.edu/gazette/2000/03.23/efficient.html

Fish Gotta Swim -- But only George Lauder can tell us how: George Lauder studies fish to understand their locomotion. Here he looks at the
http://www.auburn.edu/academic/classes/zy/0301/final/Final.html.BAK.txt

Part I: Distribution of characteristics: For example, in the Amazon, several species of catfish, the Arapaima (the largest
http://faculty.insead.edu/parker/dictionarybrowse/indexar.html

Webster's Online Dictionary - The Rosetta Edition: ARANEIDA ARANEIDAL ARANEIDAN ARANEIFORM ARANEINA ARANEOIDEA ARANEOSE ARANEOUS ARANEUS
http://www.siu.edu/~perspect/03_fall/amazon.html

Fins for Forests: ...streams and rivers. Recently they've been experimenting with raising a
http://www.bio.sdsu.edu/pub/eb/brauner/brauner.html

SDSU - Evolutionary Biology - Dr. Colin Brauner: The interaction between O2 and CO2 exchange in the obligate air breather, Arapaima
http://www.an.psu.edu/jxm57/explore/peru/itinerary.html

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