Meanings
nounsoapfish (plural soapfishes or soapfish)
plural soapfishes
- Any of a number of serranid fish that can secrete a toxic soaplike mucus
- 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)
- Grammistes sexlineatus (golden stripe soapfish, goldenstriped soapfish, six-lined soapfish, skunkfish
- Aulacocephalus temminckii (goldribbon soapfish, goldstripe grouper)
- Pogonoperca ocellata (Indian soapfish)
- Pogonoperca punctata (leaflip soapfish, spotted soapfish, snowflake soapfish, leaflip grouper)
- Diploprion bifasciatum (barred soapfish, two-banded soapfish)
- Diploprion drachi (yellowfin soapfish)
- A species of lizardfish (Synodus foetens)
Origin
Cite this entry
APA
soapfish. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/soapfish
MLA
“soapfish.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/soapfish. Accessed November 2, 2026.
Chicago
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “soapfish,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/soapfish.
Source: soapfish on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.