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