Definition & Meaning | English word RIBBONFISH

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Definitions of RIBBONFISH

1. Any of several lampriform fish, of the family Trachipteridae, having long, ribbon-like bodies.

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Examples of Using RIBBONFISH in a Sentence

• Marine life seen at Rollover Pass, and the bay and gulf surrounding it, includes blacktip sharks, red drum, black drum, speckled sea trout, flounder, sheephead, ladyfish or skipjacks, gafftop sail catfish, hardhead catfish, ribbonfish, needlefish, tripletail, Spanish mackerel, jack crevale, tarpon, pompano, croaker, sand trout, whiting, mullet, mud minnows, shad or menhaden, dogfish, brown shrimp, white shrimp, sea otters, blue crabs, stone crabs, and fiddler crabs.
• The perciform fish known as the red bandfish (Cepola macrophthalma) is sometimes referred to as ribbonfish, but it is unrelated to any ribbonfish in the Trachipteridae.
• Trachipterus trachypterus, the Mediterranean dealfish, is a ribbonfish of the family Trachipteridae, found in tropical and subtropical seas worldwide.
• King-of-the-salmon (Trachipterus altivelis), is a species of ribbonfish in the family Trachipteridae.
• Zu cristatus, the scalloped ribbonfish, is a ribbonfish of the family Trachipteridae found circumglobally in all oceans at tropical latitudes, at depths down to 90 m.
• The spotted drum or spotted ribbonfish (Eques punctatus), is a species of marine ray-finned fish belonging to the family Sciaenidae, the drums and croakers.
• The first fossil ribbonfish (Teleostei, Lampridiformes, Trachipteridae) by Giorgio Carnevale, Istituto di Geoscienze e Georisorse, Pisa, Italy.
• Pareques acuminatus, commonly known as the high-hat, donkeyfish, cubbyu, Steindachner's ribbonfish, streaked ribbonfish, striped ribbonfish or striped drum, is a species of marine ray-finned fish belonging to the genus Pareques in the family Sciaenidae, the drums and croakers.
• Benthic varieties include the marine jewfish, croakers, grunters, snappers, groupers, ribbonfish and pomfrets.
• Desmodema polystictum, also called the deal fish, polka-dot ribbonfish, or spotted ribbonfish, is a fish in the family Trachipteridae.
• This species is commonly referred to as the dealfish to differentiate it from the six other ribbonfish species in the family Trachipteridae.
• The remaining members of Neoteleostei are marine: The populous clade of the Acanthopterygii which consist of the Beryciformes, Holocentridae and the aforementioned Percomorpha (which include families such as the tuna, seahorses, gobies, cichlids, flatfish, wrasse, perches, anglerfish, pufferfish), the Ateleopodidae (jellynoses), the Lampriformes (oarfish, opah, ribbonfish), the Zeiformes (dories), the Polymixiiformes (beardfish), the Stylephorus, the Myctophiformes (lanternfish), and the Aulopiformes (lizardfish) which include some brackwater species (also the marine order Stomiiformes was once included in the Neoteleostei as part of the superorder Stenopterygii, but have since been placed in Stomiati outside the Neoteleostei).
• Trachipterus fukuzakii, the tapertail ribbonfish, is a species of ray-finned fish within the family Trachipteridae, found in the Eastern Pacific Ocean from southern California to northern Peru.

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