[shrimp-fish] 
) -fish, (especially referring to two or more kinds or species) -fish⋅es. | any of several fishes of the family Centriscidae, inhabiting shallow waters from eastern Africa to Hawaii, having a compressed body covered with transparent plates. |
| shrimp·fish (shrĭmp'fĭsh') n. pl. shrimpfish or shrimp·fish·es Any of various small, slender tropical marine fishes of the family Centriscidae, related to the sea horses and pipefish. |
shrimpfish
any of four species of small, tropical marine fishes of the family Centriscidae (order Gasterosteiformes), found in the Indo-Pacific. The name razor fish derives from the shrimpfishes' characteristic sharp-edged belly. Shrimpfishes are nearly transparent, long-snouted, shrimplike fishes, flattened from side to side and covered with a cuirass of fused, transparent armour plates. The armour ends in a long spine (one of the dorsal fin spines), beneath which are the tail and the rest of the dorsal fins.
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