killifish

killifish

English

Etymology

From killie (“killifish”, perhaps from kill (“channel, creek”))[1] or kill, + fish.[2]

Noun

killifish (plural killifishes or killifish)

1. Any of a number of tiny fish in the Cyprinodontiformes order of ray-finned fish.

Hyponyms

• (tiny fish): Aplocheilidae, Cyprinodontidae, Fundulidae, Nothobranchiidae, Profundulidae, Rivulidae, Valenciidae - families in Cyprinodontiformes with species called killifish

Derived terms

terms derived from killifish

• Ash Meadows killifish (Empetrichthys merriami)
• banded killifish (Fundulus diaphanus)
• Bermuda killifish (Fundulus bermudae)
• California killifish (Fundulus parvipinnis)
• caprivi killifish (Nothobranchius kafuensis)
• Ceylon killifish (Aplocheilus dayi)
• golden wonder killifish (Aplocheilus lineatus)
• Gulf killifish (Fundulus grandis)
• Japanese killifish (Oryzias latipes)
• least killifish (Heterandria formosa)
• mangrove killifish (Kryptolebias marmoratus)
• Mediterranean killifish (Aphanius fasciatus)
• rainwater killifish (Lucania parva)
• Raycraft Ranch killifish (Empetrichthys latos concavus)
• riceditch killifish (Chologaster cornuta)
• scaleless killifish (Aphanius asquamatus)
• spotfin killifish (Fundulus luciae)
• spotted killifish (Nothobranchius orthonotus)
• striped killifish (Fundulus majalis)
• Tanganyika killifish (Lamprichthys tanganicanus)
• Waccamaw killifish (Fundulus waccamensis)
• Werner's killifish (Aplocheilus werneri)

Translations

fish in the order Cyprinodontiformees

Finnish: hammaskarppikala Hungarian: fogasponty

References

1. “killifish”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary
2. “killifish”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.

Further reading

• killifish on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Cyprinodontiformes on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
• Species named killifish at Wikipedia
• Species named killifish at Wikispecies