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n. - Small tadpole-shaped cold-water aquatic animal with pelvic fins forming a sucker.

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  • In each trench we explore, there seems to be a different species of snailfish.
  • That little snailfish was merely a sampler, a single sushi bite on a far grander platter.
  • Despite the insane pressure, there it swims, this bizarre little snailfish, cool as an albino cucumber.
  • Hordes of ghostly white snailfish, which resemble foot-long tadpoles with suckers on their bellies, appeared when one lander released bait in front of its onboard camera.
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