A small eel-like fish with a tapering body and fins that form a pointed tail, typically found in deep water.
Family Ophidiidae: numerous genera
Example sentencesExamples
- We believe that our observations suggest widespread spawning of striped cusk-eels within estuaries of both the north and south shores of Cape Cod.
- Courtenay describes the sound producing mechanism of adult striped cusk-eels, and which is found only in the males.
- Calling was often initiated while cusk-eels were still partially or entirely burrowed.
- This is the only cusk-eel sound that has been identified to the species level.
- A cusk eel takes refuge in a crevice, under an umbrella of gorgonian corals.