NOUN | animal | Balistidae, family Balistidae | triggerfishes |
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Meaning | triggerfishes. | |
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Synonym | family Balistidae | |
Member of | Plectognathi, order Plectognathi, order Tetraodontiformes | boxfishes |
Members | Balistes, genus Balistes | type genus of the Balistidae |
filefish | Narrow flattened warm-water fishes with leathery skin and a long file-like dorsal spine | |
triggerfish | Any of numerous compressed deep-bodied tropical fishes with sandpapery skin and erectile spines in the first dorsal fin | |
Broader | fish family | Any of various families of fish |
Spanish | Balistidae, balístidos, familia Balistidae | |
Catalan | Balistidae, Balístid, balístids |
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