BALISTIDAE


Meaning of BALISTIDAE in English

-_stəˌdē noun plural

Usage: capitalized

Etymology: New Latin, from Balistes, type genus + -idae

: a family of long-snouted small-eyed marine fishes having a deep compressed body and rough spinose scales, comprising the triggerfishes and sometimes the filefishes, and a few related forms consisting a suborder of Plectognathi

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