plectognath fish

Noun
  1. Tropical marine fishes having the teeth fused into a beak and thick skin covered with bony plates or spines (synset 102655298)
    is a type of: acanthopterygian, spiny-finned fish - a teleost fish with fins that are supported by sharp inflexible rays
    subtypes:
    • triggerfish - any of numerous compressed deep-bodied tropical fishes with sandpapery skin and erectile spines in the first dorsal fin
    • filefish - narrow flattened warm-water fishes with leathery skin and a long file-like dorsal spine
    • boxfish, trunkfish - any of numerous small tropical fishes having body and head encased in bony plates
    • blowfish, globefish, puffer, pufferfish - any of numerous marine fishes whose elongated spiny body can inflate itself with water or air to form a globe; several species contain a potent nerve poison; closely related to spiny puffers
    • spiny puffer - puffers having rigid or erectile spines
    • headfish, mola, ocean sunfish, sunfish - among the largest bony fish; pelagic fish having an oval compressed body with high dorsal and anal fins and caudal fin reduced to a rudder-like lobe; worldwide in warm waters
    belongs to: order plectognathi, order tetraodontiformes, plectognathi - boxfishes; filefishes; globefishes; ocean sunfishes; triggerfishes; puffers
    same as: plectognath

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