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Icthyophobia
Fear of fish or ichthyophobia ranges from cultural phenomena such as fear of eating fish, fear of touching raw fish, or fear of dead fish, up to Phobia, irrational fear (specific phobia). Selachophobia, or galeophobia, is the specific Galeophobia, fear of sharks.Galeophobia in medical dictionary. Etymology The term ''ichthyophobia'' comes from the Greek language, Greek ἰχθῦς - ''ichthus'', meaning "fish" and φόβος - ''phobos'', "fear". ''Galeophobia'' comes from the Greek γαλεός - ''galeos'', "small shark".Phobia Ichthyophobia is described in ''Psychology: An International Perspective'' as an "unusual" specific phobia.Michael W. Eysenck. ''Psychology: An International Perspective'', Psychology Press, 2004, p839, Bot ...[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Whale Shark
The whale shark (''Rhincodon typus'') is a slow-moving, filter-feeding carpet shark and the largest known extant fish species. The largest confirmed individual had a length of .McClain CR, Balk MA, Benfield MC, Branch TA, Chen C, Cosgrove J, Dove ADM, Gaskins LC, Helm RR, Hochberg FG, Lee FB, Marshall A, McMurray SE, Schanche C, Stone SN, Thaler AD. 2015. "Sizing ocean giants: patterns of intraspecific size variation in marine megafauna". ''PeerJ'' 3:e715 . The whale shark holds many records for size in the animal kingdom, most notably being by far the largest living nonmammalian vertebrate. It is the sole member of the genus ''Rhincodon'' and the only extant member of the family Rhincodontidae, which belongs to the subclass Elasmobranchii in the class Chondrichthyes. Before 1984 it was classified as ''Rhiniodon'' into Rhinodontidae. The whale shark is found in open waters of the tropical oceans and is rarely found in water below . Studies looking at vertebral growth bands and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
