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Cosa (chi) è grunion - definizione

FISH SPECIES
Leuresthes; Gruniun; Grunion run

grunion         
['gr?nj?n]
¦ noun a small, slender Californian fish that swarms on to beaches to spawn. [Leuresthes tenuis.]
Origin
early 20th cent.: prob. from Sp. grunon 'grunter'.
USS Grunion         
SUBMARINE OF THE UNITED STATES
SS-216; USS Grunion (SS-216)
USS Grunion (SS-216) was a Gato-class submarine that sank at Kiska, Alaska, during World War II. She was the only ship of the United States Navy to be named for the grunion.

Wikipedia

Grunion

Grunion are two fish species of the genus Leuresthes: the California grunion, L. tenuis, and the Gulf grunion, L. sardinas. They are sardine-sized teleost fishes of the New World silverside family Atherinopsidae, found only off the coast of California, USA, and Baja California, Mexico, where the species are found on both the Pacific Ocean and Gulf of California coasts. Many people enjoy catching grunion at events called "grunion runs."

Grunion are known for their unusual mating ritual wherein at very high tides, the females come up on to sandy beaches where they dig their tails into the sand to lay their eggs. The male then wraps himself around the female to deposit his sperm, and for the next 10 days the grunion eggs remain hidden in the sand. At the next set of high tides, the eggs hatch and the young grunion are washed out to sea.

A related species, the false grunion (Colpichthys regis) lives in the Gulf of California. Although the fish looks and acts similarly, it does not have the same breeding method.

Esempi dal corpus di testo per grunion
1. "If our target is not the Grunion, where is she?" Wright said.
2. The Grunion is the only known sunken vessel in the area, and the sonar captured the distinct outline of a submarine conning tower, he said.
3. They knew Dutch Harbor responded with an order to return to the base, but they don‘t know if Grunion ever received it.
4. One site held an entirely new clue, a note from a Japanese model ship builder who said he thought he knew what had happened to the Grunion.
5. They knew the Grunion had sunk two Japanese submarine chasers and heavily damaged a third in July 1'42 near Kiska, one of two Aleutian islands occupied by the Japanese.