Nasus
# Nasus

Nasus is Latin for nose or snout, and appears in many related terms.

## 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
