filefishes in English

noun
1
a fish with a dorsal spine and rough scales, related to the triggerfishes and occurring in tropical and sometimes temperate seas.
Sponges constituted the majority of stomach contents of angelfishes and the filefish .

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1. Boxfishes / Filefishes / Mola Sunfish / Puffers / Porcupinefishes / Triggerfishes

2. Balistid, TRIGGERFISHES, AND MONACANTHID FILEFISHES (TETRAODONTIFORMES) OF NORTH CAROLINA FRANK J

3. Florent's Guide To The South Florida Reefs Fish, Corals and Creatures - Triggerfishes - Filefishes - Boxfishes - Porcupinefishes - Pufferfishes - Drums - Goatfishes - Trumpetfishes - Sweepers - Remoras

4. SCHWARTZ Institute of Marine Sciences University of North Carolina More head City, NC 28557-3209 Abstract: Six Balistids (triggerfishes) and eight Monocanthids (filefishes) occur in North Carolina's inland and ocean waters

5. Definition of Balistidae : a family of long-snouted small-eyed marine fishes having a deep compressed body and rough spinose scales, comprising the triggerfishes and sometimes the filefishes, and a few related forms consisting a suborder of Plectognathi