Fw: V--2nd, Chap 9 Mondaugen
alice wellintown
alicewellintown at gmail.com
Thu Oct 14 01:46:18 CDT 2010
Are you a man or a fish? The Tempest tossed on Poe's Red Masque.
On Wed, Oct 13, 2010 at 8:10 PM, Mark Kohut <markekohut at yahoo.com> wrote:
> Mondaugen is a fish!....check wikipedia, German edition and translate (if you
> don't know German). It is below.
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> slang: sucker in poker...a virgin....a wimp....
> verb: seek information...
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> http://onlineslangdictionary.com/definition+of/fish
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> Moon eyes
> Moon eye (Hiodon tergisus)
> System
> Class: Ray-finned fishes (Actinopterygii)
> Subclass: True bony fishes (Teleostei)
> Superorder: Knochenzünglerähnliche(Osteoglossomorpha)
> Procedure: Hiodontiformes
> Family: Hiodontidae
> Genre: Moon eyes
> Scientific Name
> Hiodon
> Lesueur 1818
> The members of the family of the moon eyes (Hiodontidae) herring are similar,
> frequent, up to 50 cm long fish in North Americanlakes and rivers east of the
> great Rocky Mountains live. The dorsal fin has nine to twelve rays, the anal
> fin is long, with 23-33 rays, the tail fin is split, the pelvic fin has seven
> rays.
> Fossil, the Hiodontidae with Plesiolycoptera and Yanbiana from
> the Cretaceous and from China. Eohiodon lived in the Eocene in western North
> America.
> The family consists of one genus and 2 species.
> Species [Edit]
> * Goldeye (Hiodon alosoides)
> * Moon eye (Hiodon tergisus)
> Sources [Edit]
> * Joseph S. Nelson, Fishes of the World, John Wiley & Sons, 2006, ISBN
> 0-471-25031-7
> * Family Hiodontidae -. Mooneyes Fishbase (English)
> * Li, Guo-Qing and Wilson, Mark VH 1998: Hiodontiformes. Mooney, Goldeye.
> The
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> Tree of Life Web Project (English)
> Web Links [Edit]
> Commons: Hiodon - collection of images, videos and audio files
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