squirrelfish - very small brightly colored (especially red) nocturnal fishes of shallow waters of tropical reefs; they make sounds like a squirrel's bark

anomalops, flashlight fish - fish having a luminous organ beneath eye; of warm waters of the western Pacific and Puerto Rico

flashlight fish, Photoblepharon palpebratus - fish of deep dark waters having a light organ below each eye

dory - marine fishes widely distributed in mid-waters and deep slope waters

Capros aper, boarfish - fish with a projecting snout

boarfish - fish with large eyes and long snouts

stickleback, prickleback - small (2-4 inches) pugnacious mostly scaleless spiny-backed fishes of northern fresh and littoral waters having elaborate courtship; subjects of much research

teleost, teleost fish, teleostan - a bony fish of the subclass Teleostei

batfish - bottom-dweller of warm western Atlantic coastal waters having a flattened scaleless body that crawls about on fleshy pectoral and pelvic fins

angler fish, anglerfish, goosefish, Lophius Americanus, lotte, allmouth, monkfish, angler - fishes having large mouths with a wormlike filament attached for luring prey

Opsanus tau, toadfish - bottom-dwelling fish having scaleless slimy skin and a broad thick head with a wide mouth

frogfish - fish having a frog-like mouth with a lure on the snout

sargassum fish - small fantastically formed and colored fishes found among masses of sargassum

Acanthopterygii, superorder Acanthopterygii - teleost fishes having fins with sharp bony rays

percoid, percoid fish, percoidean - any of numerous spiny-finned fishes of the order Perciformes

remora, suckerfish, sucking fish - marine fishes with a flattened elongated body and a sucking disk on the head for attaching to large fish or moving objects

silverside, silversides - small fishes having a silver stripe along each side; found along the Atlantic coast of the United States

barracuda - any voracious marine fish of the genus Sphyraena having an elongated cylindrical body and large mouth with projecting lower jaw and long strong teeth

launce, sand eel, sand lance, sand launce - very small silvery eellike schooling fishes that burrow into sandy beaches

dragonet - small often brightly colored scaleless marine bottom-dwellers; found in tropical and warm-temperate waters of Europe and America

scorpaenoid, scorpaenoid fish - fishes having the head armored with bony plates

plectognath, plectognath fish - tropical marine fishes having the teeth fused into a beak and thick skin covered with bony plates or spines

flatfish - any of several families of fishes having flattened bodies that swim along the sea floor on one side of the body with both eyes on the upper side