filefish

NOUN
  1. narrow flattened warm-water fishes with leathery skin and a long file-like dorsal spine
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  • Some were truly incredible — from the impossibly tiny-mouthed filefish (No. 32), to the blue parrotfish (No. 35) that looked like wet sapphire, to the 2-foot-long remora (No. 34) that Adler insisted could adhere to my belly and hang there (it did, and the sensation was like having a vacuum-cleaner hose with a thousand tiny needles at its end stuck to your skin). The Mid-Life Slam
  • Sponges constituted the majority of stomach contents of angelfishes and the filefish.
  • Some Tetraodonts are square or triangular (boxfishes), others are spherical (pufferfishes), and the filefishes are laterally compressed. CreationWiki - Recent changes [en]
  • Some were truly incredible — from the impossibly tiny-mouthed filefish (No. 32), to the blue parrotfish (No. 35) that looked like wet sapphire, to the 2-foot-long remora (No. 34) that Adler insisted could adhere to my belly and hang there (it did, and the sensation was like having a vacuum-cleaner hose with a thousand tiny needles at its end stuck to your skin). The Mid-Life Slam
  • Filefishes and triggerfishes have spines on their backs that they can extend to make themselves more difficult to swallow. Coral reef fish feeding behavior in the Caribbean
  • Pufferfishes, filefishes, triggerfishes, and butterflyfishes (Family Chaetodonidae) actively consume individual coral polyps. Coral reef fish feeding behavior in the Caribbean
  • Filefishes (Family Monacanthidae), triggerfishes (Family Balistidae), trunkfishes (Family Ostraciidae), and porcupinefishes (Family Diodontidae), have evolved interesting solutions to this problem. Coral reef fish feeding behavior in the Caribbean
  • Every sort of reef fish competed for meals, the oddest being the boxfish, trunkfish and filefish, all trying to feed through pursed lips.
  • The grass provides protection from predators, like the parrotfish and filefish that would cruise by.
  • It's simple to get close to animals like scrawled filefish and spiny puffers which prove too timid to approach in the daytime.
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