moonfish

English

a moonfish ("ocean sunfish", Mola mola)

Etymology

From moon +‎ fish, from the silvery color, parallel to the synonymous Dutch cognate maanvis.

Noun

moonfish (plural moonfish or moonfishes)

1. Any of various flat, oval marine fish species.
   1. The family Monodactylidae (fingerfishes, silver angelfishes).
   2. Mene maculata, of tropical coastal waters of the Indo-Pacific area.
   3. Most species of the genus Selene.
   4. Atlantic spadefish (Chaetodipterus faber).
   5. The family Molidae (ocean sunfish).
   6. The opahs in the family Lamprididae.
   7. The cusk (Brosme brosme), a North Atlantic cod-like fish in the ling family Lotidae, the only species in its genus.
   8. The southern platyfish (Xiphophorus maculatus).

Synonyms

• (Brosme brosme): brismak, brosmius, torsk, tusk
• (Xiphophorus maculatus): common platy

Translations

any of various flat, oval marine fish species

• Bulgarian: риба-луна f (riba-luna)
• Cebuano: bilongbilong (Mene maculata)
• Dutch: maanvis (nl) m
• French: sélène (fr) f
• Tagalog: tabas (Mene maculata)

M. maculata

• Cebuano: bilongbilong
• Chinese:
  • Mandarin: 眼眶魚／眼眶鱼 (yǎnkuàngyú)
• Tagalog: tabas

Further reading

• moonfish on Wikipedia.Wikipedia