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silverside Body plans of Lampridiformes and Atheriniformes.
Quizzes
Sea otter (Enhydra lutris), also called great sea otter, rare, completely marine otter of the northern Pacific, usually found in kelp beds. Floats on back. Looks like sea otter laughing. saltwater otters
Animal Group Names
Lion (panthera leo)
Deadliest Animals Quiz
Young chimpanzee dressed in a shirt and sweater vest, scratching his head thinking. (primates)
Wild Words from the Animal Kingdom Vocabulary Quiz
Mute swan with cygnet. (birds)
Match the Baby Animal to Its Mama Quiz
vulture. An adult bearded vulture at a raptor recovery center. The Gypaetus barbatus also known as the Lammergeier or Lammergeyer, is a bird of prey and considered an Old World vulture.
Animal Factoids
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Spider monkey swinging in a tree. (primate, jungle animal)
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Malayan Leaf Frog - Megophrys nasuta
9 Animals That Look Like Leaves
A large school of mano (sharks) called Galapagos sharks at Maro Reef in the Papahanaumokuakea Marine National Monument. Galapagos shark (Carcharhinus galapagensis)a worldwide species of requiem shark, family Carcharhinidae.
Saving Sharks in the 2020s
Big beaver gnawing on limb at river's edge
6 Animal Species that Mate for Life
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World Data Locator Map: Australia
Is Australia an Island?
Secret Service Agent Listens To Earpiece
Secret Service Code Names of 11 U.S. Presidents
United States Presidential Election of 2012. Mitt Romney. Official portrait of President Barack Obama in the Oval Office, Dec. 6, 2012 after his reelection Nov. 6, 2012. Official portrait Obama
10 Democrats Who Made History
Hemp (Cannabis sativa).
9 Mind-Altering Plants
Andrew Jackson delivering a speech while on his way to Washington, D.C., for his inauguration in 1829. From Harper's Weekly, 1881.
5 Remarkably Close U.S. Presidential Elections
The Lost Colony of Roanoke, North Carolina, where 115 people mysteriously disappeared c. 1590. John White discovers the word Croatoan carved onto a tree upon his return to the deserted Roanoke Colony in 1590
The Lost Colony of Roanoke

silversides: References & Edit History

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Invalidated site: British Broadcasting Corporation - Hardyhead silversides. Jan 10, 2018
Add new Web site: Food and Agriculture Organisation of the United Nations - Order Atherinifirmes - Atherinidae. Nov 07, 2016
Illustration of the Landia silverside (Membras gilberti) added. Apr 10, 2014
Added new Web site: British Broadcasting Corporation - Hardyhead silversides. Nov 24, 2008
Added new Web site: Gulf of Maine Research Institute - Silverside. Nov 24, 2008
Article revised and updated. Oct 08, 2008
Article added to new online database. Jul 20, 1998
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