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Ricefish vs Medaka - What's the difference?

ricefish | medaka |

As nouns the difference between ricefish and medaka

is that ricefish is any of the family Adrianichthyidae of about 27 species of small ray-finned fish, many of which are found in Japanese rice paddies while medaka is species: Oryzias latipes, a small Japanese ricefish, popular for use in aquariums.

ricefish

English

(Adrianichthyidae)

Noun

(en-noun) (wikipedia ricefish)
  • Any of the family Adrianichthyidae of about 27 species of small ray-finned fish, many of which are found in Japanese rice paddies.

    • medaka

    English

    (Oryzias latipes) (Oryzias latipes) (Oryzias latipes)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • , a small Japanese ricefish, popular for use in aquariums.
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  • * 2009 , Daniel Dietrich, Heiko O. Krieger, Histological Analysis of Endocrine Disruptive Effects in Small Laboratory Fish , page 47,
    • Similar to the findings in medaka , fathead minnows treated with an intermediate concentration (10ng/L) of EE2 [18] in the ambient water at various timeranges throughout development did not result in sexreversal.(sic)
  • * 2012 , Ten-Tsao Wong, Paul Collodi, Chapter 12: Application of Fish Stem Cell Technology to Aquaculture and Marine Biotechnology'', Garth L. Fletcher, Matthew L. Rise (editors), ''Aquaculture Biotechnology , page 193,
    • Much of the research directed toward developing this technology has been done using model fish species such as medaka (Wakamatsu et al. 1994; Hong et al. 1996) and zebrafish (Sun et al. 1995; Ma et al. 2001; Kurita and Sakai 2004).

    Synonyms

    * (Oryzias latipes) (Japanese killifish), (Japanese rice fish)

    See also

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