We called them "sallygrowlers"--we thought toadfish was the official name.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2009-01-01] Reference

It was a reasonably large toadfish, as far as toadfish go, and it was ugly and fearsome and it growled.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2009-01-01] Reference

Clams and skates and croakers and jellyfish and fluke and toadfish and anything else with gills surrounded by water are all wild.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2008-09-01] Reference

Tetrodotoxin is a powerful neurotoxin found in the skin, liver, ovary, intestine and muscle of the pufferfish species (globefish, blowfish, balloon fish, toadfish).    From Wordnik.com.  [Fish poisonings and envenomations] Reference

But the most strange fish is a small one so like the picture of St. George's dragon as possibly can be, except his legs and wings; and the toadfish which will swell till it be like to burst when it comes into the air.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Bounty of the Chesapeake Fishing in Colonial Virginia] Reference

" "Nay," declared a dumpy figure with big ears and the frenzied face of a maniacal toadfish, "we must work together to defeat the likes of the late and unlamented Susnam Evyndd, may his pure and noble soul lie corrupted and befouled forever.    From Wordnik.com.  [Kingdoms of Light]

In addition to crabs, watermen found croaker and oyster toadfish, as well as rarities, such as stargazer and cunner.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Shad Plank] Reference

Houseboat residents on the east coast of the US have fallen victim to another fish that likes to sing to its mates - the toadfish.    From Wordnik.com.  [Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph] Reference

Visitors will explore the natural history and acoustic world of the toadfish while also visiting with the Sciencenter's own toadfish.    From Wordnik.com.  [theithacajournal.com -] Reference

Studies on the labyrinth fish Trichopsis vittata and the toadfish Halobatrachus didactylus show that the ability to detect conspecific sounds develops during growth.    From Wordnik.com.  [BioMed Central - Latest articles] Reference

"Sonic Seas," a special Sciencenter Showtime! presentation, is planned for 2 p.m. and features the chance to eavesdrop on the noisy lives of toadfish with Tine Rubow and Andy Bass of Cornell University.    From Wordnik.com.  [theithacajournal.com -] Reference

Gilmore's hydrophones picked up the pattering rain noise made by snapping shrimp; the pistons of silver perch; the percolator sounds of catfish; the ba-bump heartbeat sound of sea trout; and the occasional burp of a toadfish.    From Wordnik.com.  [UnderwaterTimes.com News of the Underwater World] Reference

Using the the toadfish (Opsanus tau) as their model, scientists tested whether hair cells amplify stimuli from very small head movements, and if so, can the brain regulate this enhanced sensitivity and shift this function on or off?.    From Wordnik.com.  [PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories] Reference

"Now, if they'd said bull-terriers," he said, "I might have had my doubts, but a bulldog's no more dangerous than a toadfish.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Spread Eagle and Other Stories] Reference

The toadfish was used for this study.    From Wordnik.com.  [PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories] Reference

A toadfish.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2009-01-01] Reference

"A toadfish, son.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2009-01-01] Reference

Those which I remember to have seen there of the kinds that are not eaten are the whale, porpoise, shark, dogfish, gar, stingray, thornback, sawfish, toadfish, frogfish, land crabs, fiddlers, and periwinkle.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Bounty of the Chesapeake Fishing in Colonial Virginia] Reference