toadfish

How To Use toadfish In A Sentence

• There were plenty of unusual sightings - I came across dwarf lionfish, stonefish, toadfish, frogfish and a six-striped soapfish, which I later discovered to be quite a toxic species.
• What it is: One of a family of marine or estuarine fish known as Tetraodontidae whichincludesmany familiar species variously called puffers, puffer fish, balloonfish, blowfish, bubblefish, globefish, swellfish and toadfish. The Best Stuff on Earth?!
• Clams and skates and croakers and jellyfish and fluke and toadfish and anything else with gills surrounded by water are all wild. Wild clams
• Tetrodotoxin is a powerful neurotoxin found in the skin, liver, ovary, intestine and muscle of the pufferfish species (globefish, blowfish, balloon fish, toadfish). Fish poisonings and envenomations
• Mr. Jackson turned to turtles only when a toadfish failed to suit an experiment he'd designed to measure its metabolic rate in the absence of oxygen. The Beating Heart Beneath the Shell
• It was a reasonably large toadfish, as far as toadfish go, and it was ugly and fearsome and it growled. A (true) fish story
• While toadfish and their swimbladder muscles continue to grow throughout life, the cells appear to continue to divide and remain relatively small.
• Accordingly, the swimbladder itself is the source of the most complex forms of sound production in many groups (e.g. toadfishes, searobins and flying gurnards).
• Some of the fish orders with both fresh and saltwater species are the toadfish order, garpike order, bowfin, sturgeon, herring/anchovy, salmon/trout/pike, catfish, clingfish, stickleback, scorpionfish, and flatfish orders.
• In addition to crabs, watermen found croaker and oyster toadfish, as well as rarities, such as stargazer and cunner. The Shad Plank