sea snail

British  

noun

1. Also called: snailfish.  any small spiny-finned fish of the family Liparidae, esp Liparis liparis, of cold seas, having a soft scaleless tadpole-shaped body with the pelvic fins fused into a sucker

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Example Sentences

The molecule came from the Conus magus, a sea snail found in the deep sea.

From Salon • May 21, 2025

The presence of the organism — thought to be a sea snail — kept the 14-deck Viking Orion adrift 16 miles off the coast of Adelaide, Australia.

From New York Times • Jan. 2, 2023

Now scientists are trying to save this mysterious sea snail.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 8, 2019

They are attached to it “comme une vignette sur son caillou” — “like a sea snail on its pebble.”

From Washington Post • Oct. 25, 2018

It is sometimes called the sea snail, and is found on the marine grass in harbours, as well as in the open sea.

From Beautiful Shells of New Zealand An Illustrated Work for Amateur Collectors of New Zealand Marine Shells, with Directions for Collecting and Cleaning them by Moss, E. G. B.