snakefish

(ˈsneɪkˌfɪʃ)

n, pl -fish or -fishes

(Animals) a term for any fish resembling a snake

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Noun

snakefish - tropical fishes with large mouths in lizard-like heads; found worldwide

lizardfish, snake-fish

malacopterygian, soft-finned fish - any fish of the superorder Malacopterygii

family Synodontidae, Synodontidae - soft-finned bottom-dwelling fishes

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Waist-HIGH in muddy waters, Sam Phoeun plunges his woven bamboo trap into Boeung Krom Lake, before sticking his arm through the mouth of the basket with childlike glee in hopes of snagging a snakefish.

A return to cultural roots in Tbong Khmum's traditional fishing festival

synodus (Red Lizardfish), Saurida brasiliensis, and Trachinocephalus myops (Snakefish) and species-level genetic structure within Synodus poeyi (Offshore Lizardfish).

A new species of western Atlantic lizardfish (Teleostei: Synodontidae: Synodus) and resurrection of Synodus bondi Fowler, 1939, as a valid species from the Caribbean with redescriptions of S. bondi, S. foetens (Linnaeus, 1766), and S. intermedius (Agassiz, 1829)

This accommodating fish has been called "snakefish," "eel fish," and far more disturbing adjectives in loud voices on boats by haughty and arrogant anglers and in soft voices at seedy bait shops for far too long.

Defending "ugly" fish

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