moonfish

Etymology

moon + fish, from the silvery colour, parallel to the synonymous Dutch cognate maanvis.

noun

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