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bluefin tuna) bluefin tuna is the common name for three of the eight species of tuna in the thunnus genus (family scombridae): the pacific bluefin tuna (thunnus orientalis), the northern bluefin tuna or atlantic bluefin tuna (t. thynnus), and the southern bluefin tuna (t. maccoyii). they share with other
world's oceans, mainly between °s and °s, to nearly °s. bluefin tuna are important both ecologically and commercially. ecologically, they are an integral part of marine food chains , preying (depending on whether young larvae, juveniles, or adults) on such organisms such as rotifers , crustaceans , other...
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worm-like larva (caterpillar), then an immobile pupal stage, and finally the winged adult emerges. likewise, a tadpole, with gills, a fish-like tail, and no legs, metamorphosizes into an adult, airbreathing, legged, and tailless frog . while some crustaceans simply increase in size with each molt, in other
crustaceans the larval stage looks so different from the adult that at times the two forms have been erroneously classified as different species. on the other hand, after a grasshopper egg hatches, the emerging nymph looks similar to the adult, but lacks wings and has underdeveloped reproductive organs...
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