NOUN
- large wrasse of western Atlantic; head of male resembles a pig's snout
- found from Long Island southward
How To Use hogfish In A Sentence
- At one point, a huge puffer vied for attention with an even bigger hogfish, while an eagle ray dug into the sand beneath an overhang of soft corals.
- A Spanish hogfish poses in its zebra-striped nightclothes, but every time I bring it into my lamp beam to frame up its portrait, it instantly changes back to its drab daylight guise.
- Cleaning is not limited to the Labroides genus however; young bluehead and young Spanish hogfish in the Bahamas have also been observed cleaning larger fishes.
- ‘On our last dive we saw a bunch of juvenile hogfish,’ reports Haskell, a species he describes as a snapper with markings around its eyes and a rooster-tail fin.
- Longfin damselfish aggressively defend their territory from all intruders and are therefore rarely cleaned by facultative cleaners such as juvenile bluehead wrasse and Spanish hogfish.
- I did, however, enjoy an ancient loggerhead turtle festooned with remoras and a hogfish in its distinctive night camouflage.
- At one point, a huge puffer vied for attention with an even bigger hogfish, while an eagle ray dug into the sand beneath an overhang of soft corals.
- Around the two Piton sites we shared the ocean with parrotfish, trumpetfish, smooth trunkfish, cornetfish, tiger grouper, a trio of barracuda, rock beauties, Spanish hogfish and many more exotic species.
- A hogfish had been ‘cleaning’ me, nibbling at my equipment and at my fingers.
- Fishes with pectoral fins and obvious scales: parrotfishes, wrasses, hogfishes, razorfishes. Recently Uploaded Slideshows