goatfish

[ UK /ɡˈə‍ʊtfɪʃ/ ]
NOUN
  1. brightly colored tropical fishes with chin barbels
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  • The effects of eating ichthyoallyeinotoxic fishes, such as certain mullet, goatfish, tangs, damsels and rabbitfish, are believed to be similar to LSD, and may include vivid and terrifying auditory and visual hallucinations. Boing Boing: April 16, 2006 - April 22, 2006 Archives
  • The same goes for bannerfish, one-spot grunts, snappers, goatfish and jacks.
  • And while my identification skills are at the "purple one with yellow stripes" level, I do also enjoy the evocative names: three-stripe fusilier, diagonal-banded sweetlips, filamented flake, oblong silver biddy and freckled goatfish, not to mention the charming category of odd-shaped bottom dwellers. Dive Time
  • It is nonetheless a beautiful shallow reef with huge areas of elk and staghorn coral sheltering shoals of grunt, snapper and goatfish.
  • Group foraging is so ingrained in goatfish that individuals kept in separate (but adjacent) tanks will synchronize their movements even if they have never hunted. In Sync
  • On the morning dives we drifted in crystal currents, passing over orange gorgonians and red soft corals, and among schools of goatfish, snappers and surgeonfish.
  • Commercial fisheries and fish survey data reveal the catch rate for goatfishes (moano kali and weke nono) have declined, correlating with diminishing numbers seen. Starbulletin Headlines
  • Like I said before, you will see a lot of very friendly blue gropers, mados, goatfish, stingrays and bullseyes.
  • In the shallower water gather surgeonfish, triggerfish, scorpionfish, goatfish and giant clams.
  • A few of her endemic favorites: the saddle wrasse, the bluestripe butterfly fish, and the whitesaddle goatfish.
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