A small fish with bony plates covering the body and large pectoral fins which spread out horizontally like wings. It lives in the warmer waters of the Indo-Pacific.
海蛾鱼
Family Pegasidae: several genera and species, including the widely distributed Eurypegasus draconis
Example sentencesExamples
What I failed to spot were pegasus sea-moths or any mimic octopuses, but they were there.
Definition of sea-moth in US English:
sea-moth
nounˈsēmôTH
A small fish with bony plates covering the body and large pectoral fins which spread out horizontally like wings. It lives in the warmer waters of the Indo-Pacific.
海蛾鱼
Family Pegasidae: several genera and species, including the widely distributed Eurypegasus draconis
Example sentencesExamples
What I failed to spot were pegasus sea-moths or any mimic octopuses, but they were there.