NOUN
- small tadpole-shaped cold-water fishes with pelvic fins forming a sucker; related to lumpfish
How To Use snailfish In A Sentence
- The diminutive inquiline snailfish (Liparis inquilinus Warren Ellis
- This showy snailfish lacks the purple stripes displayed by other specimens.
- Many snailfishes have large eggs and very low fecundities which would suggest some form of parental care.
- There are various species of snailfish, some of which can be found in shallower waters, but the hadal is found almost exclusively in depths exceeding 6000 meters, where they feed on small shrimp who scavenge the carcasses of dead marine life. Warren Ellis
- In these extreme northern latitudes of Baffin Bay, bycatch consisted primarily of gelatinous snailfish, Arctic skate, and four-beard rockling.
- A single-eyed immature male round snailfish Careproctus roseofuscus with length of 331 mm and weight of 650 g was caught in the Pacific waters off the northern Kurile Islands in September 2000.
- Liparid snailfish in the genus Careproctus extrude eggs through an anteriorly positioned ovipositor into the branchial chambers of large lithodid crabs.
- Hordes of ghostly white snailfish, which resemble foot-long tadpoles with suckers on their bellies, appeared when one lander released bait in front of its onboard camera. The Guardian World News
- Despite the insane pressure, there it swims, this bizarre little snailfish, cool as an albino cucumber. SFGate: Top News Stories
- In each trench we explore, there seems to be a different species of snailfish. The Guardian World News