batfish

Even compared to other batfish they are known for being fragile.

We were finally so low, I even saw a batfish being chased by a whole school of toothers.

Curious batfish, like polished silver dinner plates, immediately cluster around me.

Their motion on the ocean floor, like other batfish, is described as being like a bat crawling.

Although numbers are not precisely known, in the initial trawl which led to their discovery out of around 100,000 fish only three were pancake batfish.

I recalled the batfish with sick horror.

Divers can even see schools of barracuda, jacks and batfish, then during the right season whale sharks appear.

They are closely allied to the extant genus, Platax, more commonly known as "batfish."

That ocean down there is full of toothers, some of them fifty feet long and if they don't get you, the airborne flying batfish will.

On 22 January 1973 Batfish ran hard aground at Charleston while proceeding to sea.

Damage to the ocean floor especially endangered the Louisiana pancake batfish whose range is entirely contained within the spill-affected area.

He stared down a batfish, then released it gently, before plucking a slimy sea cucumber from the brine.

They are commonly called "batfish".

The Chaetodipterus genus belongs to the Ephippidae family, which includes spadefish and batfish.

The Shore Zone displays spiny lobsters, hermit crabs, and batfish.

The pancake batfish, Halieutichthys aculeatus, belongs to the family Ogcocephalidae of batfishes.

Halieutichthys intermedius, the Louisiana pancake batfish.

Large numbers of turtles, reef fish, white/black tip reef sharks, eagle rays, batfish and lobsters.

On 13 March, Batfish was partially secured to the barges by lifting straps, but no cables had been placed to bind them together.

On 4 July 1972, while still at Muskogee Terminal, Batfish was unofficially opened to the public.

The freshwater angelfish, of course is not as closely related to the marine batfish as to warrant classification in the same genus.

Pancake batfish are so named from their body shape, which is flattened with an enlarged head and trunk giving a rounded disc shape.

The California batfish or sting ray (Myliobatis californicus)

Divers frequently see schools of barracudas, snappers, fusiliers, angelfish, groupers, and batfish.

Longfin Batfish are omnivores.