sandfish

English

Etymology

sand +‎ fish

Noun

sandfish (plural sandfishes or sandfish)

1. Genus spp. (also called beaked sandfishes), long, thin ray-finned fishes (family )
2. Any of several marine fishes that burrow into sandy seabeds
   1. , a family of perch-like fish
   2. , usually sand fish, a species of goby fish (family Gobiidae)
   3. (sand tilefish, family )
   4. (sand perch, family Serranidae)
3. Other animals that notably burrow in sand:
   1. sandfish skink (), a land-dwelling lizard that swims in sand
   2. certain sea cucumbers ( and )

Derived terms

• belted sandfish ( in family Serranidae)
• broad sandfish ()
• clanwilliam sandfish ( in family Cyprinidae)
• Japanese sandfish ()
• obtuse sandfish ()
• Pacific sandfish ()
• sailfin sandfish ()
• southern sandfish (family )

References

• sandfish on Wikipedia.Wikipedia