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- noun Plural form of
filefish .
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Examples
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Pufferfishes, filefishes, triggerfishes, and butterflyfishes (Family Chaetodonidae) actively consume individual coral polyps.
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Some Tetraodonts are square or triangular (boxfishes), others are spherical (pufferfishes), and the filefishes are laterally compressed.
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