lizard fish

British

noun

any small teleost fish of the family Synodontidae, having a slender body and a lizard-like head and living at the bottom of warm seas

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Despite the challenges, it managed to explore and map large parts of the Siang Valley region, cataloguing every plant, frog, lizard, fish, bird & mammal and insects they found, with the discoveries published in several volumes from 1912 to 1922 in the Records of the Indian Museum.

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It's a slim, long-jawed, fine-toothed "lizard fish" measuring 16 inches long.

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Deep-sea lizard fish grow to be roughly two feet in length.

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Food can be hard for these lizard fish to find at the bottom of the ocean, and mates are even more sparse.

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