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Chilo mycterus geometricus
Bur fish Bur" fish` (Zo["o]l.) A spinose, plectognath fish of the Allantic coast of the United States (esp. Chilo mycterus geometricus) having the power of distending its body with water or air, so as to resemble a chestnut bur; -- called also ball fish, balloon fish, and swellfish.

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- Xenerodiops is a genus of extinct birds, containing one species, Xenerodiops mycter. Its fossil remains were found in Egypt by Elwyn L. Simons and first formally...
- diverged from other herons at least 31 million years ago. Xenerodiops X. mycter Upper Sequence Quarry I & M A nearly complete rostrum and a humerus lacking...
- glauconiticus Xenerodiopus Valid Gen et sp nov. Rasmussen, Olson, & Simons Early Oligocene Jebel Qatrani Formation  Egypt A Xenerodiopid, monotypic with X. mycter...
- oxymycterus is derived from the Ancient Gr**** ὀξύς oxy "sharp" and μυκτήρ mycter "nose". The holotype was recovered from an unspecified location in the sea...
- Eocene) †Xenerodiopidae Rasmussen 1987 (Early Oligocene) †Xenerodiopus mycter Rasmussen, Olson & Simons 1987 Ardeidae – herons †Ardeagrandis arborea Kurockin...
- individual. The generic name refers to the location of the taxon in Europe, and “mycter” = nose, refers to the enlarged external naris that characterizes the caseids...