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n. - Narrow flattened warm-water cold-blooded aquatic vertebrates with leathery skin and a long dorsal spine.

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  • Between 1955 and 1975, there were observed fluctuations in catch for yellowtail, horse mackerel, filefish, parrot bass and sea robin, in Sagami Bay.
  • Some were truly incredible — from the impossibly tiny-mouthed filefish (No. 32), to the blue parrotfish (No. 35) that looked like wet sapphire, to the 2-foot-long remora...
  • Parrotfish, filefish and sergeant major fish prowled as starfish lurked on the bottom.
  • Species include gulf menhaden, scaled sardine, cowfish, filefish, moharra, penfish, ladyfish, catfish, mullet, pompano, tarpon, spadefish, triggerfish, tripletail,...
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