Definition of "snailfish" []

• Any member of the Liparidae, a family of scorpaeniform marine fish. (noun)

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• "Expedition leader Alan Jamieson said: The moment the traps came on deck, we were elated at the sight of the snailfish as we have been after these fish for years."
• "The team was hoping to find specimens of deep-sea snailfish which have been photographed before but have not been seen since the 1950s."
• "In each trench we explore, there seems to be a different species of snailfish."