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batfish noun (plural same or batfishes)1A fish of tropical and temperate seas with a flattened body that is round or almost triangular when viewed from above.- Family Ogcocephalidae: several genera and species.
We saw crabs, eels, batfish, unicornfish, pufferfish, boxfish, lionfish, squirrelfish, racoonfish, butterflyfish, parrotfish and angelfish, to name just a few....- It is a relative easy, shallow dive with a maximum depth of about 45 ft, with nice hard coral formation and friendly batfish and moray eels.
- The legs (they're pectoral fins, really) allow batfish to crawl about the seafloor.
2A deep-bodied, laterally compressed marine fish of the Indo-Pacific region, resembling an angelfish.- Genus Platax, family Ephippidae: several species.
These include the flashlight fish in the Indo-Pacific, the rosy-lipped batfish of the Galapagos and Cocos islands, and unbelievably vividly coloured Spanish dancers....- Unfortunately the visibility is a milky 5m, though this doesn't detract from the huge shoals of snapper and the angelfish, batfish and giant grouper that call this oasis home.
- Soft corals sway with the current, while schools of striped and spotted groupers, angelfish, batfish and lionfish dart between them.
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