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bonefish
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bone·fish  (bnfsh)
n. pl. bonefish or bone·fish·es
A marine game fish (Albula vulpes) of warm shallow waters, having silvery scales.
[From its many small bones.]
bonefish [ˈbəʊnˌfɪʃ]
n pl -fish, -fishes
1. (Life Sciences & Allied Applications / Animals) a silvery marine clupeoid game fish, Albula vulpes, occurring in warm shallow waters: family Albulidae
2. (Life Sciences & Allied Applications / Animals) a similar related fish, Dixonina nemoptera, of the Pacific Ocean
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Noun1.bonefish - slender silvery marine fish found in tropical mud flats and mangrove lagoonsbonefish - slender silvery marine fish found in tropical mud flats and mangrove lagoons
Albula vulpes
malacopterygian, soft-finned fish - any fish of the superorder Malacopterygii
Albula, genus Albula - type and sole genus of the family Albulidae
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Otoliths were rare in the bulk samples of the Coon Creek, but did produce four more species of fishes: an albulid, a pterothrissid, a chlorophthalmid, and a pempherid.
Abstracts of papers presented at the 1999 annual meeting of the ... by The Proceedings of the Louisiana Academy of Sciences
Important faunal components include a crustacean referable to nephropid decapods of the subfamily Homarinae, sharks of the genera Pseudohypolophus, Leptostyrax, and Rhinobatos, the albulid fish Casierius, pycnodont fishes of the genera Nonaphalagodus, Macromesodon, and Callodus, the semionotid Lepidotes, amiid fishes, and a eucryptodire turtle.
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