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ˈsnake-fish
[snake n.]
One or other of certain fishes (see quots.) having some resemblance to a snake.
1796Stedman Surinam II. xviii. 60 The snake-fish takes its name from its resemblance to that reptile: this is a black eel with a white belly. 1836Yarrell Brit. Fishes I. 195 The red Bandfish, or Red Snakefish, cepola rubescens. 1876Goode Fishes of Bermudas 68 Synodus Lacerta,..Snake-Fish. 1896Lydekker Roy. Nat. Hist. V. 438 Snake⁓fishes. The typical genus Ophidium..has the pelvic fins replaced by a pair of barbel-like filaments. 1899Proc. Zool. Soc. Nov. 985 The two Snake-Fishes (Polypterus senegalus) from the River Gambia.
attrib.1884Goode Nat. Hist. Aquat. Anim. 548 The Snake-fish family, Synodontidæ. |