Ophidiidae

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Noun1.Ophidiidae - eellike marine fishes
family Ophidiidae
fish family - any of various families of fish
order Perciformes, order Percomorphi, Perciformes, Percomorphi - one of the largest natural groups of fishes of both marine and fresh water: true perches; basses; tuna
cusk-eel - elongate compressed somewhat eel-shaped fishes
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galathea is an ophidiid (cusk eel) and was trawled from the Puerto Rico Trench from a depth of 8370 m in 1970.
On the validity of the Trieste Flatfish: dispelling the myth
At Los Islotes, the most important prey were cusk eel (Aulopus bajacali), bigeye bass Pronotogrammus eos), threadfin bass Pronotogrammus multifasciatus), and splitail bass (Hemanthias sp.) (Aurioles-Gamboa et al., 1984; Garcia-Rodriguez, 1995).
Spatial and temporal variation in the diet of the California sea lion (Zalophus californianus) in the Gulf of California, Mexico

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