killifish
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English
Etymology
From killie (“killifish”, perhaps from kill (“channel, creek”)) or kill, + fish.
Pronunciation
Noun
killifish (plural killifishes or killifish)
- Any of a number of tiny fish in the Cyprinodontiformes order of ray-finned fish.
Hyponyms
- (tiny fish): Aplocheilidae, Cyprinodontidae, Fundulidae, Nothobranchiidae, Profundulidae, Rivulidae, Valenciidae - families in Cyprinodontiformes with species called killifish
Derived terms
terms derived from killifish
- Ash Meadows killifish (Empetrichthys merriami)
- banded killifish (Fundulus diaphanus)
- Bermuda killifish (Fundulus bermudae)
- California killifish (Fundulus parvipinnis)
- caprivi killifish (Nothobranchius kafuensis)
- Ceylon killifish (Aplocheilus dayi)
- golden wonder killifish (Aplocheilus lineatus)
- Gulf killifish (Fundulus grandis)
- Japanese killifish (Oryzias latipes)
- least killifish (Heterandria formosa)
- goldspotted killifish
- mangrove killifish (Kryptolebias marmoratus)
- Mediterranean killifish (Aphanius fasciatus)
- rainwater killifish (Lucania parva)
- Raycraft Ranch killifish (Empetrichthys latos concavus)
- riceditch killifish (Chologaster cornuta)
- scaleless killifish (Aphanius asquamatus)
- spotfin killifish (Fundulus luciae)
- spotted killifish (Nothobranchius orthonotus)
- striped killifish (Fundulus majalis)
- Tanganyika killifish (Lamprichthys tanganicanus)
- Waccamaw killifish (Fundulus waccamensis)
- Werner's killifish (Aplocheilus werneri)
Translations
fish in the order Cyprinodontiformees
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References
- ^ “killifish”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.
- ^ “killifish”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
Further reading
killifish on Wikipedia.Wikipedia 
Cyprinodontiformes on Wikispecies.Wikispecies - Species named killifish at Wikipedia
- Species named killifish at Wikispecies
