butterfly fish
Noun 1. small usually brilliantly colored tropical marine fishes having narrow deep bodies with large broad fins; found worldwide (hypernym) percoid fish, percoid, percoidean (hyponym) chaetodon (member-holonym) Chaetodontidae, family Chaetodontidae | ||||
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Butterfly fish Definition from Language, Idioms & Slang Dictionaries & Glossaries
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butterfly fish
butterfly fish
(zo?l.), the ocellated blenny (blennius ocellaris) of europe. see blenny. the term is also applied to the flying gurnard...
see also butterfly
butterfly fish
(zo?l.), the ocellated blenny (blennius ocellaris) of europe. see blenny. the term is also applied to the flying gurnard...
see also butterfly
Butterfly fish Definition from Encyclopedia Dictionaries & Glossaries
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Butterflyfish
The butterflyfish are a group of conspicuous tropical marine fish of the family Chaetodontidae. Found mostly on the reefs of the Atlantic, Indian and Pacific Oceans, butterflyfish are fairly small, most from 12 to 22 cm in length. The largest species, the lined butterflyfish, Chaetodon lineolatus, grows to 30 cm. There are approximately 127 species in eleven genera. They should not be confused with the freshwater butterflyfish of the family Pantodontidae.
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