Tuesday, May 25, 2010

The Way We Live. Home in Sea Street, Colombo.

2 comments:

JP said...

an Arowana . a Beauty

Dominic Sansoni said...

Hello JP, I wasn't sure what all this Arowana business was so I looked it up. Thanks to you and to Wikipedia...
Arowanas are freshwater bony fish of the family Osteoglossidae, sometimes known as "bonytongues". In this family of fishes, the head is bony and the elongate body is covered by large, heavy scales, with a mosaic pattern of canals. The dorsal and the anal fins have soft rays and are long based, while the pectoral and ventral fins are small. The name "bonytongues" is derived from a toothed bone on the floor of the mouth, the "tongue", equipped with teeth that bite against teeth on the roof of the mouth. The fish can obtain oxygen from air by sucking it into the swim bladder, which is lined with capillaries like lung tissue. The arapaima is an "obligatory air breather".