Nasus
Appearance
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Nasus coming from Nasus Externus in Latin meaning nostril, is the designated term for nose on fishes.
Biology
[edit]Medicine
[edit]- Nasus externus, the external nose.
- Auris Nasus Larynx, a medical journal ("Ear Nose Throat")
Zoology
[edit]Fish species
[edit]- Gogonasus, a Devonian fish and link to early tetrapods
- Barbus nasus, a Cyprinid fish
- Bassozetus nasus, a cusk-eel
- Chondrostoma nasus, nase
- Coilia nasus, an anchovy
- Coregonus nasus, broad whitefish
- Lamna nasus, porbeagle, a shark
- Menticirrhus nasus, highfin king croaker, (see kingcroaker)
- Nematalosa nasus, Bloch's gizzard shad (see Clupeidae)
- Ostracion nasus, shortnose boxfish (see boxfish)
- Parodon nasus (syn: Parodon tortuosus), freshwater fish (see Characidae)
- Typhlonus nasus, a cusk-eel (see Ophidiidae)
- Xenotilapia nasus, a Cichlid
Other species
[edit]- Brookesia nasus, a small chameleon
- Conopsis nasus, a snake
- Hylodes nasus, Santa Catarina Tree Toad, (synonyms include: Hyla nasus, Elosia nasuta, Elosia nasus, Enydrobius nasus, Elosia nasus nasus)
Morphology
[edit]- Nasus or fontanellar gun, the hornlike frontal projection of some termites
Other uses
[edit]Fictional characters
[edit]- Nasus, the Curator of the Sands, a playable champion character in the multiplayer online battle arena video game League of Legends
Geography
[edit]- Nasus (Greece), a town of ancient Acarnania, Greece