toadfish

Meanings

Plural: toadfish, toadfishes

Noun

• bottom-dwelling fish having scaleless slimy skin and a broad thick head with a wide mouth
• Any fish thought to resemble a toad
• Any of the ray-finned fishes of family Batrachoididae of benthic ambush predators.
• Any fish thought to resemble a toad
• Certain species in family Tetraodontidae
• banded toadfish, of Australia (Torquigener pleurogramma)
• Any fish thought to resemble a toad
• Certain species in family Tetraodontidae
• blackspotted toadfish, of the tropical Indian and Pacific Oceans (Arothron nigropunctatus)
• Any fish thought to resemble a toad
• Certain species in family Tetraodontidae
• common toadfish (or toadfish), of Australia and New Zealand (Tetractenos hamiltoni)
• Any fish thought to resemble a toad
• Certain species in family Tetraodontidae
• prickly toadfish, of Australia and New Zealand (Contusus richei)
• Any fish thought to resemble a toad
• Certain species in family Tetraodontidae
• red striped toadfish, of Indonesia and Papua New Guinea (Dichotomyctere erythrotaenia, syn. Tetraodon erythrotaenia)
• Any fish thought to resemble a toad
• Certain species in family Tetraodontidae
• smooth toadfish, of Australia (Tetractenos glaber)
• Any fish thought to resemble a toad
• Certain species in family Psychrolutidae
• dark toadfish (Neophrynichthys latus)
• Any fish thought to resemble a toad
• Certain species in family Psychrolutidae
• frilled toadfish, of Macquarie Island (Ambophthalmos magnicirrus)
• Any fish thought to resemble a toad
• Certain species in family Psychrolutidae
• pale toadfish of New Zealand (Ambophthalmos angustus)

Synonyms

Opsanus tau

Related Words

frogfish