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BITTERLING (Rhodeus amarus)

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Originally appearing in Volume V04, Page 14 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.

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BITTERLING (Rhodeus amarus)

BITTERLING (Rhodeus amarus) , a little See also:

CARP

carp-like See also:

fish of central See also:

EUROPE

Europe, belonging to the Cyprinid See also:

FAMILY

family. In it we have a remarkable instance of symbiosis. The genital papilla of the See also:

FEMALE

female acquires a See also:

GREAT

great development during the breeding See also:

SEASON (0. Fr. seson, seison, mod. saison, Lat. satio, sowing time, the spring, from serere, to sow; in Late Lat. the word is found with its present meaning, the spring being considered as particularly the season of the year)

season and becomes produced into a See also:

TUBE (Lat. tuba)

tube nearly as See also:

long as the fish itself; this acts as an ovipositor by means of which the comparatively few and large eggs (3 millimetres in See also:

DIAMETER (from the Cr. &a, through, µErpov, measure)

diameter) are introduced through the gaping valves between the branchiae of See also:

pond mussels (Unio and Anodonta), where, after being inseminated, they undergo their development, the See also:

fry leaving their See also:

HOST

host about a See also:

month later. The mollusc reciprocates by throwing off its embryos on the See also:

PARENT, SIMON NAPOLEON (1855– )

parent fish, in the skin of which they remain encysted for some See also:

time, the See also:

period of See also:

REPRODUCTION

reproduction of the fish and See also:

MUSSEL (0. Eng. muscle, Lat. musculus, diminutive of mus, mouse, applied to small sea fish and mussels)

mussel coinciding.

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