| This could also affect fish like the grunion, which spawn according to tidal changes. |
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| Along with the grunion, these are the only marine fish known to fully emerge from water solely for the purpose of spawning. |
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| She is here competing with other piscivorous birds in search of anchovy, shiner perch and grunion to eat. |
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| The atheriniform is the best known of the spiny-finned group, including flying fishes, guppies, mollies, swordtails, and California grunion. |
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| A similar set of tradeoffs may explain why surf smelt, which spawn in fine gravel, can spawn successfully lower in the intertidal zone than grunion, spawning in sand. |
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| No other creature displays so exquisite an adaptation to the tidal rhythm as the grunion, a shimmering fish about as long as a man's hand. |
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| Their waves wash over the places where the masses of the grunion eggs were buried, the swirl and rush of the surf stirring the sand deeply. |
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| The periodicity of spawning by the grunion, Leuresthes tenuis, an atherine fish. |
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| Grunion runs occur at predictable times and dates associated with the highest night-time tides from April to July. |
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| Moe is the owner and proprietor of Grunion Bay Imports, a retailer of the Mako car company of Japan. |
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| In the estuarine areas it can be confused with small Topsmelt, Jacksmelt, Atherinopsis californiensis, and California Grunion, Leuresthes tenuis. |
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| On his first day at school, his adopted son Sherman antagonises class swot Penny and bites his nemesis, causing Child protection officer Mrs Grunion to insist on a home visit. |
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