How to use in-sentence of “dorsal”:
+ In more advanced species, the first five abdominal segments are often fused into a dorsal shield called the scutum, which is normally fused with the carapace.
+ The first dorsal fin is quite wide, and is located at the back of the pectoral fins.
+ The first dorsal fin has a bluntly-pointed tip, and is located above or behind the pectoral fins.
+ The Colombian weasel has a dark dorsal color.
+ The first dorsal fin is very large with a rounded tip, and is just in front of the pectoral fins.
+ The first dorsal fin is low and positioned at the back of the pectoral fins, and the second dorsal is of similar shape and size and positioned at the front of the anal fin.
+ Nudibranchs that feed on hydroids can store the hydroids’ nematocysts in the dorsal body wall.
+ The dorsal surface is a dark blue colour, and the belly is white.
Example sentences of “dorsal”:
+ The Atlantic sailfish is a metallic blue fish with a large sail-like dorsal fin and a long and pointed bill-like snout.
+ The first dorsal fin is located about halfway between the pectoral fins and the pelvic fins.
+ There is no dorsal fin.
+ The one on the side of the belly is called ventral body cavity, the one on the back dorsal body cavity.
+ In brachiopods, the two valves are on the dorsal and ventral surfaces of the body, while in bivalves, they are on the left and right sides.
+ It is secreted by the tips of the female’s two greatly expanded dorsal tentacles before egg laying.
+ Both species are large and stocky, have a wide, blunt snout, and have two large dorsal fins of similar size.
+ The first dorsal fin is large with a pointed apex.
+ The Atlantic sailfish is a metallic blue fish with a large sail-like dorsal fin and a long and pointed bill-like snout.
+ The first dorsal fin is located about halfway between the pectoral fins and the pelvic fins.
+ There is no dorsal fin.
+ And on its back, like a shark, there was a dorsal fin.
+ The gill slits are quite long but can not reach the dorsal surface of the head.
+ The dorsal fin is tall.
+ It is possible to work out the difference between a trout and any other fish, by looking for a second dorsal fin.
+ The male has a bright silvery-blue dorsal wing outlined in a narrow line of black, while the female’s dorsal wing is a more brownish-gray color.
+ To defend itself, the dogfish curls into a ball, and strikes at predators with its spines on the dorsal fins.
More in-sentence examples of “dorsal”:
+ There are two dorsal fins, no anal fin.
+ They have two dorsal fins, an anal fin, and five gill slits.
+ There are two dorsal fins, no anal fin.
+ They have two dorsal fins, an anal fin, and five gill slits.
+ The pelvic fins are closer to the second dorsal fin than to the first dorsal fin.
+ On the front end of the fish, there are two dorsal fins.
+ The first dorsal fin is large and widely triangular with a pointed tip.
+ The blood that now carries oxygen goes through the dorsal artery, which divides into smaller and smaller vessels and go all over the body to then distribute the oxygen and gets carbon dioxide and waste.
+ The dorsal surface of the body, the pectoral and pelvic fins, the dorsal fins, the center of the anal fin, and the caudal fin are blackish-brown.
+ They have a venompoisonous spine on their backs between the head and the dorsal fin.
+ Bignose sharks are similar in looks to the Night sharks, however the Night sharks have a second dorsal fin which has a free rear tip that is at least twice as long as the height, while the Bignose shark’s second dorsal fin has a short free rear tip.
+ One of the most striking features of turtles, both modern and prehistoric alike, are their dorsal shells, forming an armored carapace over the body of the animal.
+ The German fossils also featured the outline of “Ichthyosaurus” skin, showing it had a fleshy dorsal fin on its back and a large caudal fin.
+ The blue shark’s name comes from its distinct dark blue dorsal surface, and bright blue sides.
+ The first dorsal fin is much larger than the second dorsal fin, and is located at the back of the body.
+ Adaptive evolution of cryptic coloration: the shape of host plants and dorsal stripes in “Timema” walking-sticks.
+ Bites are normal, so much so that a female Silvertip shark has been found without a part of the dorsal fin after mating.
+ The dorsal surface of the tiger shark is bluish-green to dark grey or black, and the belly is yellowish-white to pure white in colour.
+ Both dorsal fins are low.
+ However, the silvertip shark is a much heavier species, and has a large first dorsal fin and a much smaller second dorsal fin.
+ White crappies have 5 or 6 dorsal spines while Black crappies have 7 or 8.
+ Tadpoles are pond type larvae with large dorsal fins on the tail.
+ He did this by scaling up from dorsal vertebrae, after he determined a relationship between dorsal vertebrae length and total body length.
+ The dorsal surface of an organism refers to the back, or upper side, of an organism.
+ Gharials have an outer row of soft, smooth or feebly-keeled scutes in addition to the bony dorsal scutes.
+ The whitetip reef shark earns its common name for the white tips on the first dorsal fin and upper caudal fins.
+ The second dorsal fin is noticeably smaller.
+ Family members are distinguished by having from five to 13 dorsal spines in extreme cases.
+ The fins are bluish-black and the front dorsal fin is speckled with small black spots.
+ The base of the dorsal fin and the gills of the shark showed signs of the whales’ attack.
+ The appendage, which resembles a fishing pole, is attached to the end of the dorsal fin’s front spine, which is separated from the rest of the fin.
+ All species of requiem sharks have a head of normal shape, eyes with a nictitating membranes, caudal fins with the upper lobe being quite larger than the lower but not very long, 2 spineless dorsal fins, the first one usually much larger than the second in most of the Atlantic OceanAtlantic species, an anal fin, a caudal peduncle which doesn’t have lateral keels, and sharp, bladelike teeth with a single cusp.
+ During tonic immobility, the dorsal fin straighten, and both breathing and muscle contractions become more steady and relaxed.
+ The Galapagos shark resembles the Grey reef shark, but can be distinguished by its more slender body, and by the slightly rounded tip on the first dorsal fin.
+ Although both shark species have white markings on the dorsal and caudal fins, the whitetip reef shark doesn’t have these markings on the tips of the pectoral fins.
+ These segments are formed by a dorsal plate, called a tergite, and a ventral plate, called a sternite.
+ They have well-developed eyes, one or two dorsal fins, a tail fin, a single nostril on top of the head, and seven gill openings on each side of the body.
+ They are joined together by a strong and flexible ligament on the hinge line at the dorsal edge of the shell.
+ The dorsal and anal fins are divided into front spiny and back soft-rayed portions, which may be partially or completely separated.
+ It has a large, rounded first dorsal fin, and very long, wide, paddle-like pectoral fins.
+ The first dorsal fin is located over the free margins of the pectoral fins, and the second dorsal fin is over or slightly infront of the anal fin.
+ It had a very long dorsal fin, which ran all along the sharks back, giving it an eel-like appearance.
+ The second dorsal fin is about two-thirds the size of the first one and is located behind the pelvic fins.
+ The CNS is protected by bone in the dorsal cavity: the brain in the cranial subcavity, and the spinal cord in the spinal cavity.
+ It can be identified by the shape of its “hammer which is wide and has an almost straight margin at the front, and by its first dorsal fin which is tall, and is sickle-shaped.
+ The whitetip reef shark gets its name because of the white tips on its first dorsal fin and caudal fin.
+ Most of the back, including dorsal fin and blowholes, appears at once when the whale comes to the surface to breathe.
+ A large, slim shark, the Silky shark has a fairly stretched, rounded snout, a relatively slanting first dorsal fin with a blunt top that is located behind the edges of the pectoral fins, a small second dorsal fin with an extremely long free rear tip.
+ The first dorsal fin is located over the pelvic fins.
+ The first dorsal fin is located well behind the pectoral fins.
+ The second dorsal fin originates over or just behind the origin of the anal fin.
+ The anal fin is round and smaller than the dorsal fins, while the pelvic fins are larger than the dorsals.