Noun: sandfish 'sand,fish
- Either of two small silvery scaleless fishes of the northern Pacific that burrow into sand
"The sandfish disappeared quickly into the seafloor as we approached"
- Fish of sandy areas of western Pacific and Indian oceans having an angular snout for burrowing into sand
"The sandfish uses its distinctive snout to dig into sandy seafloors";
- beaked salmon, Gonorhynchus gonorhynchus
Derived forms: sandfishes
Type of: malacopterygian, percoid, percoid fish, percoidean, soft-finned fish
Part of: family Trichodontidae, genus Gonorhynchus, Gonorhynchus, Trichodontidae
Encyclopedia: Sandfish