Protrusible
adapted or able to be protruded (protractile).
Pyloric Ceacae
Spaghetti-like extensions located at the base of the intestine which stores essential nutrients from food.
The slingjaw wrasse gets its name from its highly protrusible jaws, which can extend out to over half the fish's total body length. Unlike most other bony fishes, the lower jaw is not firmly attached to the skull.
In some species, the jaw is protrusible, enabling the fishes to use suction pressure to capture prey.
All characins are egg-layers and except for the species within the Mimagoniates which have internal fertilization, all use external fertilization.
Other than being terminal rather than superior (as in other gourami families), the kissing gourami's mouth is highly protrusible; as its family name suggests, the lips are lined with horny teeth.
gill arch with the infrapharyngobranchial of the second gill arch) small or absent; small second and third epibranchials; interhyal absent; lower caudal fin lobe with more principal rays than the upper lobe. Presence of a fixed or nonprotrusible ...
 See also: Fish, Water, Plants, Dorsal, Substrate
  
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