单词 | silver batfish |
释义 | > as lemmassilver batfish a. Any of various fishes of the Indo-Pacific region with deep, laterally compressed bodies, often with vertically expanded fins, esp. (a) a reef fish of the genus Platax (family Ephippidae); (b) (originally Australian) the moonfish Monodactylus argenteus (family Monodactylidae), of mainly brackish waters (also more fully silver batfish). ΘΚΠ the world > animals > fish > superorder Acanthopterygii (spiny fins) > order Perciformes (perches) > suborder Percoidei > [noun] > family Ephippidae (spade-fishes) > member of light horseman1827 batfish1851 sea-bat1880 angelfish1888 1851 T. C. Jerdon in Madras Jrnl. Lit. & Sci. 16 133 Platax... Both called by the same name which means bat fish. 1864 Reader 10 Dec. 745/1 Mr. Moore also exhibited a stuffed specimen of the bat-fish, Platax vespertilio. 1882 J. E. Tenison-Woods Fish & Fisheries New S. Wales ii. 18 Psettus argenteus, Linn. ‘Bat-fish’. 1905 D. S. Jordan Guide Study of Fishes II. 401 The best-known species is the tsuzume or batfish (Platax orbicularis). 1925 Austral. Encycl. I. 144/1 The Silver Batfish (Monodactylus argenteus)..is common on Australian coasts, extending southward to Sydney. 1987 Queensland Naturalist 28 18 During a visit to Fraser Island, on 27th April 1987, seven batfish (M. argenteus) were caught on a 3.0kg line. 2004 D. Dalton Rough Guide Philippines 312 Most of the Philippines' 450 species of coral can be found here..along with hundreds of species of smaller reef fishes such as angelfish, batfish, surgeonfish and jacks. < as lemmas |
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