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English
Etymology
From sand + fish.
Noun
sandfish (plural sandfishes or sandfish)
- Any of genus Gonorynchus (also called beaked sandfishes), long, thin ray-finned fishes (family Gonorychidae)
- Any of several marine fishes that burrow into sandy seabeds
- in Trichodontidae, a family of perch-like fish
- of species Awaous tajasica, usually sand fish, a species of goby fish (family Gobiidae)
- of species Malacanthus plumieri (sand tilefish, family Malacanthidae)
- of species Diplectrum formosum (sand perch, family Serranidae)
- Other animals that notably burrow in sand:
- sandfish skink (Scincus scincus), a land-dwelling lizard that swims in sand
- a sea cucumber of species Holothuria scabra or Thelenota ananas.
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