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名詞

moonfish (plural moonfish or moonfishes)

1. Any of various flat, oval marine fish of numerous species in several families:
   1. in family Monodactylidae (fingerfishes, silver angelfishes).
   2. Mene maculata, of tropical coastal waters of the Indo-Pacific area.
   3. Most species of the genus Selene.
   4. Atlantic spadefish (Chaetodipterus faber).
   5. in family Molidae (ocean sunfish).
   6. opahs in the family Lamprididae.
   7. cusk (Brosme brosme), a North Atlantic cod-like fish in the ling family Lotidae, the only species in its genus.

      Synonyms: tusk; more at cusk

   8. southern platyfish (Xiphophorus maculatus).

      Synonym: common platy

派生語

• African moonfish (Selene dorsalis)
• Atlantic moonfish (Selene setapinnis)
• Brown's Caribbean moonfish (Selene brownii)
• mariposa moonfish (Lampris guttatus)
• Mexican moonfish (Paraselene orstedii)
• ocean moonfish (Lampris guttatus)
• Pacific moonfish, Peruvian moonfish (Selene peruviana)
• razor moonfish (Mene maculata)
• sailfin moonfish (Veliferidae spp.)
• silver moonfish (Neosilurus hyrtlii, Drepane punctata)
• southern moonfish (Lampris immaculatus)
• spotted moonfish (Lampris guttatus)

Further reading

• “moonfish”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
• moonfish on Wikipedia.Wikipedia