Definition, Meaning, Synonyms & Anagrams | English word CUSK

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Definitions of CUSK

1. A marine cod-like fish in the ling family Lotidae, Brosme brosme.

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Examples of Using CUSK in a Sentence

• The species is closely related to marine fish such as the common ling and cusk, all of which belong to the family Lotidae (rocklings).
• Lovewell Pond supports many species of warm water fish, including smallmouth bass, largemouth bass, white perch, yellow perch, chain pickerel, pumpkinseed sunfish, minnows, brown trout, lake whitefish, rainbow smelt, burbot (cusk), hornpout (bullhead), golden shiner, common shiner, fallfish (chub), white sucker, and American eel.
• The longtail cusk (Brosmolus longicaudus) is a species of viviparous brotula native to the reefs around Australia.
• The spinyhead cusk (Hastatobythites arafurensis) is a species of viviparous brotula found in the western Pacific Ocean where it occurs from the Arafura Sea to New South Wales, Australia.
• The whiptail cusk (Hypopleuron caninum) is a species of cusk-eel found in the Indian and western Pacific Oceans where it occurs at depths of from.
• The Parabrotulidae, the false brotulas, are a small family of bathypelagic cusk eels that currently contains two genera.
• The brighteye cusk-eel (Ophidion iris) or rainbow cusk eel, is a fish species in the family Ophidiidae.
• The Maine Department of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife considers Eagle Lake ideal habitat for togue, squaretail, cusk, and lake whitefish, and has endeavored to protect the lake from the introduction of competing species like yellow perch.
• Animal species observed on the seamounts by remotely operated vehicles include amphipods, anemones, anglerfish, arrow worms, bristlemouths, brittle stars, cephalopods, chirons, codling fish, ctenophores, crinoids, cusk eels, fangtooth fish, halosaurs, jellyfish, larvaceans, piglet squid, polychaetes, ribbon worms, sea cucumbers, sea elephants, sea pens, sea spiders, sea stars, shrimp, siphonophores, spider crabs, squat lobsters, urchins and zoanthids.
• Ophidioidei is one of two suborders in the order Ophidiiformes, the cusk eels, viviparous brotulas and pearlfishes.
• 10 species of fishes are named in honor of Robins, including a shark, a moray eel, a grenadier, a cusk eel, a cardinalfish, a basslet, a jawfish, a goby, a flounder, and a sea robin.
• The Pacific bearded brotula (Brotula clarkae) also known as the pink bearded cusk-eel or the red bearded cusk-eel is a species of cusk eel found in the Pacific Ocean.
• In 2013 a further iteration of the OceanLab project using the Kaharoa led to the discovery of a new species of eelpout, as well as new depth records for species of deep sea cusk eel and rattail.

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