batfish
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any of the flat-bodied marine fishes of the family Ogcocephalidae found worldwide in tropical and subtropical oceans, including Ogcocephalus vespertilio Brazilian batfish of the coastal western Atlantic Ocean, especially along the coast of Brazil.
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Also called bat ray. an eagle ray, Myliobatis californicus, found off the coast of California and southward to the Galapagos Islands.
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Those keys have enabled him to breed fish that no one else has, including striped regal angelfish and frilly black-bodied, orange-rimmed pinnatus batfish.
From Seattle Times ● Oct. 19, 2022
Instead I go for an hourlong snorkel, spotting butterfly and batfish among the coral, then hop into a four-wheel drive jeep with a guide to explore the 400-square-kilometer island.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 21, 2013
The other newly identified pancake batfish has a somewhat broader range.
From US News ● Jul. 15, 2010
Louisiana pancake batfish grow only about “that big,” Chakrabarty says, making a circle of his thumb and forefinger.
From US News ● Jul. 15, 2010
Like a great bird—or a huge batfish leaping from the sea—the ice boat shot out on a long curve from the summit of the hard-packed snowdrift.
From Janice Day at Poketown by Long, Helen Beecher
Pancake batfishes have a lure too, a stubby projection that twitches where a nose would be on a mammal face.
From US News ● Jul. 15, 2010
Pancake batfishes are just one example of the rich life beneath the surface of the Gulf of Mexico.
From US News ● Jul. 15, 2010
Yet all pancake batfishes, now three species in total, live in water that could be fouled if Gulf oil heavily taints the Loop Current off Florida’s west coast.
From US News ● Jul. 15, 2010
Researchers identified new species of pancake batfishes, a flat fish rarely seen because of the dark depths they favor.
From Reuters ● Jul. 8, 2010
Pancake batfishes have round, flat bodies with giant heads and mouths they can thrust forward.
From Reuters ● Jul. 8, 2010
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