“Mermaids” and “batfish” were favourites, as I recall.    From Wordnik.com.  [Cautionary tales from the front lines of science - The Panda's Thumb] Reference

Lots of big fish, eels, some nudibranches, batfish, and even devil rays.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2008-10-01] Reference

One of them, a pancake batfish, is a new species that he helped discover.    From Wordnik.com.  [Scientists: Dispersants Compounded Oil Spill] Reference

The shortnosed batfish is also odd looking, and it uses its nose as a shovel and a fishing lure.    From Wordnik.com.  [EXTRALIFE – By Scott Johnson - Rosy-Lipped Batfish] Reference

The Lacondans ignored them, paying drifting tuna and trevally, bannerfish and batfish no more mind than they would have stray dogs or cats.    From Wordnik.com.  [Into the Thinking Kingdoms]

Also saw the giant trevallys and batfish, but no sharks!.    From Wordnik.com.  [TravelPod.com TravelStream? ? Recent Entries at TravelPod.com] Reference

Louisiana pancake batfish lives 1,500 feet below surface.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN.com] Reference

They are called pancake batfish, by the way, how great is that?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Critical Section] Reference

A flying batfish and a new contender for the world's tallest man.    From Wordnik.com.  [Telegraph.co.uk: news, business, sport, the Daily Telegraph newspaper, Sunday Telegraph] Reference

Little-known pancake batfish could prove to be oil-spill guinea pig.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN.com] Reference

Little-known pancake batfish could be one of oil spill's early victims.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN.com] Reference

For deep-water denizens like pancake batfish, threat is from underwater oil plumes.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN.com] Reference

For deep-water denizens like pancake batfish, threat is from underwater plumes of oil.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN.com] Reference

In 2009, LSU's Chakrabarty discovered two new species of bottom-dwelling pancake batfish about.    From Wordnik.com.  [KDKA - Pittsburgh's Source for Breaking News, Weather and Sports] Reference

The Louisiana pancake batfish lives 1,500 feet below the surface and plays an important role in the food chain.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN.com] Reference

Introducing the strange Louisiana pancake batfish, which, after being discovered recently, may be imperiled by the oil spill.    From Wordnik.com.  [Letters in Bottles] Reference

The pancake batfish (a sub species of batfish) is believed to be rare sometimes turning up in commercial and shrimp and fish catches.    From Wordnik.com.  [The News is NowPublic.com - NowPublic.com: The News is Now Public] Reference

Pancake batfish eat small invertebrates, which Chakrabarty said will be "hit hardest by the oil and dispersant mix" washing around in the Gulf.    From Wordnik.com.  [Raw Story] Reference

Two new species of pancake batfish, which walk using their arm-like fins, have been found at the site of the Gulf oil spill, according to a study published in the.    From Wordnik.com.  [Signs of the Times] Reference

At the sea's bottom, no one knows what the oil will do to species like the newly discovered bottom-dwelling pancake batfish - and others that remain unknown but just as threatened.    From Wordnik.com.  [Fore, right!] Reference

At the sea's bottom, no one knows what the oil will do to species like the newly discovered bottom-dwelling pancake batfish -- and others that remain unknown but just as threatened.    From Wordnik.com.  [WSBTV.com - Local News] Reference

A 10 times larger-than-life sculpture of a polka-dot batfish and then the 2,300-gallon open-topped aquarium of snapper, snook and catfish on the floor nearby are bigger eye-catchers.    From Wordnik.com. Reference

At the sea's bottom, no one knows what the oil will do to species such as the newly discovered bottom-dwelling pancake batfish -- and others that remain unknown but just as threatened.    From Wordnik.com.  [News for Richmond Times-Dispatch] Reference

Tallahassee to preserve more than 350 different specimens - everything from sharks to starfish, shrimp and batfish - in an environment that includes a grassland and duplicates high and low tides.    From Wordnik.com.  [KTVZ.com - Local Headlines] Reference

The sanctuary has allowed only one other marine invader to be removed from its preservation areas -- the orbicular batfish native to the Pacific Ocean and probably dumped into Keys waters by an aquarium owner.    From Wordnik.com.  [PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories] Reference

Rudloe has launched Operation Noah's Ark. He is using his four-acre laboratory an hour south of Tallahassee to preserve more than 350 different specimens, everything from sharks to starfish, shrimp and batfish.    From Wordnik.com.  [WHSV - HomePage - Headlines] Reference

The polka-dot batfish, decked out in a baseball cap and turtle-figured cravat, drew admirers who mingled while enjoying welcoming batfish Brew, which tasted amazingly like dark rum cocktails, and passed hors d'oeuvres.    From Wordnik.com.  [marconews.com Stories] Reference

(SS/AGSS-479), a Tench-class submarine, was the only ship of the United States Navy to be named for the diablo, a member of the batfish family, common in the West Indies and along the southern coast of the United states.    From Wordnik.com.  [Planet Atheism] Reference

It’s amusing to hear a creationist who claims there are huge, unbridgeable gaps between humans and chimps, lump guppies, hammerhead sharks, batfish and flounder into the same kind without any qualms.    From Wordnik.com.  [Birdwatching for creationists - The Panda's Thumb] Reference

"We know the oil and dispersant are toxic, and these batfish are low on the food chain, so.    From Wordnik.com.  [Raw Story] Reference

The rise and (maybe) fall of the batfish.    From Wordnik.com.  [chron.com Chronicle] Reference

New batfish species found under oil spill.    From Wordnik.com.  [WN.com - Business News] Reference