Polyodon

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Noun1.Polyodon - type genus of the PolyodontidaePolyodon - type genus of the Polyodontidae  
fish genus - any of various genus of fish
duckbill, paddlefish, Polyodon spathula - primitive fish of the Mississippi valley having a long paddle-shaped snout
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The February 2017 annual meeting of the Southern Division of the American Fisheries Society in Oklahoma City, included a special symposium on the management of the North American paddlefish (Polyodon spathula.
transmontanus [20], Bester hybrid (Huso female x Acipenser ruthenus male) [21], and Polyodon spathula [22] even though there is no direct evidence from karyotype morphology [23].
Xiong, "Comparative study on muscle nutritional composition of juvenile bighead carp (Aristichthys nobilis) and paddlefish (Polyodon spathula) fed live feed," Turkish Journal of Zoology, vol.
Tag-recovery methods for estimating mortality have been used for yellowtail flounder (Limanda ferruginea) in New England (Wood and Cadrin, 2013), walleye (Sander vitreus) in Lake Erie (Vandergoot and Brenden, 2014) and paddlefish (Polyodon spathula) in a South Dakota lake (Pierce et al., 2015).
Hoover, "Swimming enhancement induced by the rostrum of the paddlefish (polyodon spathula) in laminar flows: A multiphysica, fluid-structure interaction analysis," Applied Mathematical modelling, In Review.
Extirpation of Polyodon spatula, Alosa sapidissima, Moxostoma lacerum, and Sander glacum occurred; however, A.
[9.] Barton BA, Rahn AB, Feist G, Bolling H, Schreck CB (1998) Physiological stress response of the freshwater chondrostean paddlefish (Polyodon spathula) to acute physical disturbances.
Such was Rutter's first introduction to the paddlefish, Polyodon spathula, a species he would later study in depth while employed as an Assistant with the USFC.
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