Definition of spiny-finned fish Spiny-finned fish
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| spiny-finned fish - a teleost fish with fins that are supported by sharp inflexible rays | ||
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| malacopterygian, soft-finned fish any fish of the superorder Malacopterygii | ||
| teleost, teleost fish, teleostan a bony fish of the subclass Teleostei | ||
| acanthopterygii, superorder acanthopterygii teleost fishes having fins with sharp bony rays | ||
| squirrelfish very small, brightly colored (especially red) nocturnal fishes of shallow waters or tropical reefs; they make sounds like a squirrel's bark | ||
| anomalops, flashlight fish fish having a luminous organ beneath eye; of warm waters of the western Pacific and Puerto Rico | ||
| photoblepharon palpebratus, flashlight fish fish of deep dark waters having a light organ below each eye | ||
| dory marine fishes widely distributed in mid-waters and deep slope waters | ||
| capros aper, boarfish fish with a projecting snout | ||
| boarfish fish with a projecting snout | ||
| stickleback, prickleback small (2-4 inches) pugnacious mostly scaleless spiny-backed fishes of northern fresh and littoral waters having elaborate courtship; subjects of much research | ||
| batfish bottom-dweller of warm western Atlantic coastal waters having a flattened scaleless body that crawls about on fleshy pectoral and pelvic fins | ||
| allmouth, angler fish, anglerfish, goosefish, lophius americanus, lotte, angler, monkfish fishes having large mouths with a wormlike filament attached for luring prey | ||
| opsanus tau, toadfish bottom-dwelling fish having scaleless slimy skin and a broad thick head with a wide mouth | ||
| frogfish fish having a frog-like mouth with a lure on the snout | ||
| sargassum fish small fantastically formed and colored fishes found among masses of sargassum | ||
| percoid, percoid fish, percoidean any of numerous spiny-finned fishes of the order Perciformes | ||
| remora, suckerfish, sucking fish marine fishes with a flattened elongated body and a sucking disk on the head for attaching to large fish or moving objects | ||
| silverside, silversides small fishes having a silver stripe along each side; abundant along the Atlantic coast of the United States | ||
| barracuda any voracious marine fish of the genus Sphyraena having an elongated cylindrical body and large mouth with projecting lower jaw and long strong teeth | ||
| launce, sand eel, sand lance, sand launce very small silvery eellike schooling fishes that burrow into sandy beaches | ||
| dragonet small often brightly colored scaleless marine bottom-dwellers; found in tropical and warm temperate waters of Europe and America | ||
| scorpaenoid, scorpaenoid fish fishes having the head armored with bony plates | ||
| plectognath, plectognath fish tropical marine fishes having the teeth fused into a beak and thick skin covered with bony plates or spines | ||
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