snailfish

[ sneyl-fish ]

noun

, plural (especially collectively) snail·fish, (especially referring to two or more kinds or species) snail·fish·es.

1. any of several elongate, smooth-skinned fishes of the family Liparididae, inhabiting cold seas, having the ventral fins modified to form a sucking disk.

snailfish

/ ˈsneɪlˌfɪʃ /

noun

1. See sea snail
   another name for sea snail

Word History and Origins

Origin of snailfish¹

First recorded in 1830–40; snail + fish

Example Sentences

For snailfish and other animals living in these meadows, xenophyophores may provide structure to an otherwise-flat habitat.

From Nautilus

The new study took notes from the snailfish, engineering a similar robot with the ability to withstand tremendous pressure while swimming autonomously.

From Singularity Hub 

Gerringer, one of the researchers who first described the deep-sea snailfish in 2014, constructed a 3-D printed soft robot version of it several years later to better understand how it swims.

From Science News