different between silverfish vs moonfish

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Wikispecies

Wikispecies

Wikispecies

Wikispecies

Etymology

silver +? fish: from its appearance, in the case of the insect.

Noun

silverfish (plural silverfish or silverfishes)

1. Certain insects
   1. Lepisma saccharina, a small wingless insect with silvery scales, a type of bristletail.
   2. Other similar insects in the order Zygentoma, including:
      1. Ctenolepisma lineata, also called four-lined silverfish.
      2. Ctenolepisma longicaudata, or the grey silverfish.
2. Certain fish
   1. Megalops atlanticus, the Atlantic tarpon, the tarpum.
   2. The silver fish, Raiamas senegalensis.
   3. The Antarctic silverfish, Pleuragramma antarcticum.
   4. A white variety of the goldfish.
   5. Aphareus rutilans (rusty jobfish)
   6. Argentina sphyraena (a herring smelt)
   7. Argyrozona argyrozona (carpenter sea bream)
   8. Labeobarbus bynni (Niger barb, barbel, Nile barb)
   9. Enteromius mattozi (papermouth])
   10. Callorhinchus milii (elephant shark)
   11. Elops saurus (ladyfish)
   12. Leptatherina presbyteroides (hardyhead, prettyfish)
   13. Pseudocaranx dentex (white trevally)
   14. Steindachnerina argentea (a toothless characin)
   15. Trachinotus ovatus (pompano)
   16. Trichiurus lepturus (largehead hairtail)
   17. Ulaema lefroyi (mottled mojarra)

Synonyms

• (type of bristletail): fishmoth

Translations

English

Etymology

moon +? fish, parallel to the cognate, synonymous Dutch maanvis.

Noun

moonfish (plural moonfish or moonfishes)

1. Any of various flat, oval marine fish species.

   Most moonfish are silvery (hence their name), others yellowish.

   1. Family Monodactylidae (fingerfishes, silver angelfishes)
   2. Mene maculata, of tropical coastal waters of the Indo-Pacific
   3. Most species of genus Selene
   4. Atlantic spadefish (Chaetodipterus faber)
   5. Family Molidae (ocean sunfish)
   6. The opahs in the family Lamprididae.
   7. The cusk (Brosme brosme), a North Atlantic cod-like fish in the ling family Lotidae, the only species in its genus.
   8. The southern platyfish (Xiphophorus maculatus)

Synonyms

• (Brosme brosme): brismak, brosmius, torsk, tusk
• (Xiphophorus maculatus): common platy

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Further reading

• moonfish on Wikipedia.Wikipedia