soapfish
Meanings
noun
- Any of a number of serranid fish that can secrete a toxic soaplike mucus
- Rypticus spp.
- Rypticus bicolor (mottled soapfish)
- Rypticus bistrispinus (freckled soapfish)
- Rypticus bornoi (largespotted soapfish)
- Rypticus carpenteri (slope soapfish)
- Rypticus courtenayi (Socorran soapfish)
- Rypticus maculatus (whitespotted soapfish)
- Rypticus nigripinnis (blackfin soapfish, twice-spotted soapfish)
- Rypticus randalli (plain soapfish)
- Rypticus saponaceus (greater soapfish, three-spined soapfish, soapy jack)
- Rypticus subbifrenatus (spotted soapfish)
Word forms
Etymology
From soap + fish.
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