sandfish
English
Etymology
sand + fish
Noun
sandfish (plural sandfishes or sandfish)
- Genus Gonorynchus spp. (also called beaked sandfishes), long, thin ray-finned fishes (family Gonorychidae)
- Any of several marine fishes that burrow into sandy seabeds
- Trichodontidae, a family of perch-like fish
- Awaous tajasica, usually sand fish, a species of goby fish (family Gobiidae)
- Malacanthus plumieri (sand tilefish, family Malacanthidae)
- Diplectrum formosum (sand perch, family Serranidae)
- Other animals that notably burrow in sand:
- sandfish skink (Scincus scincus), a land-dwelling lizard that swims in sand
- certain sea cucumbers (Holothuria scabra and Thelenota ananas)
Derived terms
- belted sandfish (Serranus subligarius in family Serranidae)
- broad sandfish (Enigmapercis reducta)
- clanwilliam sandfish (Labeo seeberi in family Cyprinidae)
- Japanese sandfish (Trichodon trichodon)
- obtuse sandfish (Squamicreedia obtusa)
- Pacific sandfish (Trichodon trichodon)
- sailfin sandfish (Arctoscopus japonicus)
- southern sandfish (family Leptoscopidae)
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