Nasus

Nasus coming from Nasus Externus in Latin meaning nostril, is the designated term for nose on fishes.

Biology

Medicine

• Nasus externus, the external nose.
• Auris Nasus Larynx, a medical journal ("Ear Nose Throat")

Zoology

Fish species

• Gogonasus, a Devonian fish and link to early tetrapods
• Barbus nasus, a Cyprinid fish
• Bassozetus nasus, a cusk-eel
• Chondrostoma nasus, nase
• Coilia nasus, an anchovy
• Coregonus nasus, broad whitefish
• Lamna nasus, porbeagle, a shark
• Menticirrhus nasus, highfin king croaker, (see kingcroaker)
• Nematalosa nasus, Bloch's gizzard shad (see Clupeidae)
• Ostracion nasus, shortnose boxfish (see boxfish)
• Parodon nasus (syn: Parodon tortuosus), freshwater fish (see Characidae)
• Typhlonus nasus, a cusk-eel (see Ophidiidae)
• Xenotilapia nasus, a Cichlid

Other species

• Brookesia nasus, a small chameleon
• Conopsis nasus, a snake
• Hylodes nasus, Santa Catarina Tree Toad, (synonyms include: Hyla nasus, Elosia nasuta, Elosia nasus, Enydrobius nasus, Elosia nasus nasus)

Morphology

• Nasus or fontanellar gun, the hornlike frontal projection of some termites

Other uses

Fictional characters

• Nasus, the Curator of the Sands, a playable champion character in the multiplayer online battle arena video game League of Legends

Geography

• Nasus (Greece), a town of ancient Acarnania, Greece