NOUN
- small usually brilliantly colored tropical marine fishes having narrow deep bodies with large broad fins; found worldwide
How To Use butterfly fish In A Sentence
- A manta ray flashed, scattering a school of butterfly fish, silver and striped with dark gold, each moving like the pulse of a wing.
- Adult emperor angels, coral groupers and shoals of sweepers mingle in the little overhangs, while overhead swim great shoals of pencilled surgeonfish, yellow butterfly fish and brilliantly coloured Moorish idols.
- Almost every day, we snorkel off a different island, dazzled by the brilliant, seemingly abundant sea life: angelfish, butterfly fish, damselfish, parrot fish, trumpetfish, schools of golden rays flying through the water.
- A few of her endemic favorites: the saddle wrasse, the bluestripe butterfly fish, and the whitesaddle goatfish.
- A manta ray flashed, scattering a school of butterfly fish, silver and striped with dark gold, each moving like the pulse of a wing.
- Would it cope with more sensitive species such as butterfly fish and anemones?
- A big toe of her can crush Woods to death", the butterfly fish said.
- In certain areas of the tropics where clownfish, sea anemone, and butterfly fish exist, clownfish scare off butterflyfish from their host anemone.
- Occasionally one sees butterfly fish, although they are mere visitors from the still distant Indian Ocean.
- The Pantodontidae or Butterfly fish family consists of a single species which is distributed in tropical West Africa.