moonfish
English
editEtymology
editmoon + fish, from the silvery colour, parallel to the synonymous Dutch cognate maanvis.
Noun
editmoonfish (plural moonfish or moonfishes)
- Any of various flat, oval marine fish species.
- Family Monodactylidae (fingerfishes, silver angelfishes)
- Mene maculata, of tropical coastal waters of the Indo-Pacific
- Most species of genus Selene
- Atlantic spadefish (Chaetodipterus faber)
- Family Molidae (ocean sunfish)
- The opahs in the family Lamprididae.
- The cusk (Brosme brosme), a North Atlantic cod-like fish in the ling family Lotidae, the only species in its genus.
- The southern platyfish (Xiphophorus maculatus)
Synonyms
edit- (Brosme brosme): brismak, brosmius, torsk, tusk
- (Xiphophorus maculatus): common platy
Translations
editany of various flat, oval marine fish species