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Sunfish vs. Moonfish

Sunfish and Moonfish Definitions

Sunfish

Any of various North American freshwater fishes of the family Centrarchidae, having laterally compressed, often brightly colored bodies and including the crappies, black bass, bluegill, and pumpkinseed.

Moonfish

Any of several carangid fishes chiefly of the genus Selene, found in warm coastal waters of North and South America and having a short silvery compressed body.

Sunfish

Any of several large marine fishes of the family Molidae, especially the ocean sunfish.

Moonfish

See opah.

Sunfish

Any of various small freshwater fishes of the family Centrarchidae, often with iridescent colours and having a laterally compressed body.

Moonfish

Any of various flat, oval marine fish species.
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Sunfish

Any of various large marine fishes of the family Molidae that have an oval compressed body.

Moonfish

Family Monodactylidae (pl=es, pl=es)

Sunfish

(intransitive) Of an animal such as a bull or a horse: to twist the body into a crescent shape and roll back and forth.

Moonfish

Mene maculata, of tropical coastal waters of the Indo-Pacific

Sunfish

A very large oceanic plectognath fish (Mola mola, Mola rotunda, or Orthagoriscus mola) having a broad body and a truncated tail.

Moonfish

Most species of genus Selene
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Sunfish

The lean flesh of any of numerous American perch-like fishes of the family Centrarchidae

Moonfish

(Chaetodipterus faber)

Sunfish

Among the largest bony fish; pelagic fish having an oval compressed body with high dorsal and anal fins and caudal fin reduced to a rudder-like lobe; worldwide in warm waters

Moonfish

Family Molidae (ocean sunfish)

Sunfish

Small carnivorous freshwater percoid fishes of North America usually having a laterally compressed body and metallic luster: crappies; black bass; bluegills; pumpkinseed

Moonfish

The opahs in the family Lamprididae.
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Moonfish

The cusk (Brosme brosme), a North Atlantic cod-like fish in the ling family Lotidae, the only species in its genus.

Moonfish

The southern platyfish (Xiphophorus maculatus)

Moonfish

An American marine fish (Vomer setipennis); - called also bluntnosed shiner, horsefish, and sunfish.

Moonfish

Any of several silvery marine fishes with very flat bodies

Moonfish

Large elliptical brightly colored deep-sea fish of Atlantic and Pacific and Mediterranean

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