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- noun Plural form of
swordtail .
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Examples
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Molly Morris, associate professor of biological sciences, found that older female swordtails spent more time with asymmetrically striped males than symmetrical males when offered a choice.
dustbury.com » It helps if they aren’t working for scale 2007
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Of course, I don't have room for 20 or so swordtails in my tanks, so I'm going to have to find a home for some of them ...
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Mollies are considered brackish fish, and they grow big! why does platys, mollies and swordtails rub there bodies across others & why they sit at the bottom of the tank? en Español
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The fish are confined to relatively few varieties: betas, tetras, gouramis, swordtails, rainbow fish and goldfish, for the most part.
SFGate: Top News Stories Glen Martin 2009
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Xiphophorus spp. fishes (platyfishes and swordtails) have been investigated since the
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences current issue 2008
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After this poor fellow gives me empirical data by dying, I’ll morbidly move on to swordtails, goldfish and other more delicate and expensive species.
deathwatch: guppy Dean Francis Alfar 2005
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