moonfish

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Etymology

From moon +‎ fish, from the silvery color, parallel to the synonymous Dutch cognate maanvis.

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moonfish (plural moonfish or moonfishes)

  1. Any of various flat, oval marine fish of numerous species in several families:
    1. in family Monodactylidae (fingerfishes, silver angelfishes).
    2. Mene maculata, of tropical coastal waters of the Indo-Pacific area.
    3. Most species of the genus Selene.
    4. Atlantic spadefish (Chaetodipterus faber).
    5. in family Molidae (ocean sunfish).
    6. opahs in the family Lamprididae.
    7. cusk (Brosme brosme), a North Atlantic cod-like fish in the ling family Lotidae, the only species in its genus.
    8. southern platyfish (Xiphophorus maculatus).

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