NOUN
- small bottom-dwelling fish of warm seas having a compressed body and a long snout with a toothless mouth
How To Use snipefish In A Sentence
- Some snipefish, such as the ones on the cover, also have a long, pointed spine stretching back from the dorsal fin.
- Also featured here are species which live at great depth, on sandy or muddy seabeds: rays, sole, crayfish and snipefish.
- In most cases the snipefish are pink, silver or red in coloration and grow to be about twelve inches long.
- Many of the species at this level, such as the snipefish, dragnets, spinefish, and bottom dwelling rockfish, are ‘lunch’ for larger predators.
- The reasons for discarding were mainly of low market value, no readily available market (e.g. snipefish) and damaged or poor quality fish.
- When a snipefish was recovered from the belly of a rockfish off the coast of Southern California, it was the first found in that region for more than 40 years.
