toadfish

plural toadfishes

1. Any fish thought to resemble a toad.
   1. countableuncountableAny fish of the genus Lophius.

      Synonyms: fishing frog, frogfish, monkfish, sea devil, sea frog

   2. countableuncountableAny of the ray-finned fishes of family Batrachoididae of benthic ambush predators.
   3. countableuncountableBanded toadfish, of Australia (Torquigener pleurogramma).
   4. countableuncountableBlackspotted toadfish, of the tropical Indian and Pacific Oceans (Arothron nigropunctatus).
   5. countableuncountableCommon toadfish (or toadfish), of Australia and New Zealand (Tetractenos hamiltoni).
   6. countableuncountablePrickly toadfish, of Australia and New Zealand (Contusus richei).
   7. countableuncountableRed striped toadfish, of Indonesia and Papua New Guinea (Dichotomyctere erythrotaenia, syn. Tetraodon erythrotaenia).
   8. countableuncountableSmooth toadfish, of Australia (Tetractenos glaber).
   9. countableuncountableDark toadfish (Neophrynichthys latus).
   10. countableuncountableFrilled toadfish, of Macquarie Island (Ambophthalmos magnicirrus).
   11. countableuncountablePale toadfish of New Zealand (Ambophthalmos angustus).