pearlfish


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Noun1.Pearlfish - found living within the alimentary canals of e.g. sea cucumbers or between the shells of pearl oysters in or near shallow seagrass bedspearlfish - found living within the alimentary canals of e.g. sea cucumbers or between the shells of pearl oysters in or near shallow seagrass beds
percoid, percoid fish, percoidean - any of numerous spiny-finned fishes of the order Perciformes
Carapidae, family Carapidae - pearlfishes: related to the Brotulidae
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It feeds on detritus algae, as well as on larger preys such as worms, small crustaceans, and small fish such as gobies and pearlfish (Hazlett & Winn 1962, Herberholz & Schmitz 1998).
Morphological adaptations of pearlfish (Carapidae) to their various habitats.
Carapus bermudensis (Jones 1874), Pearlfish. The first specimen collected in Bermuda (Fig.