shrimp fish (English spelling) shrimpfish

Japanese: shrimp fish(英語表記)shrimpfish
shrimp fish (English spelling) shrimpfish

...A marine fish of the family Hemiscyllidae in the order Syngnathidae (illustration). It is commonly called a shrimp fish in English because it likes to eat small shrimp. Its body is long and slender, extremely compressed, and its sides are covered with a hard deck like a turtle's.

*Some of the terminology that mentions "shrimp fish" is listed below.

Source | Heibonsha World Encyclopedia 2nd Edition | Information

Japanese:

…ヨウジウオ目ヘコアユ科の海産魚(イラスト)。小エビを好んで食べるところから,英語では一般にshrimp fishという。体は細長くて極端に側扁し,体側がカメのように堅い甲板で覆われる。…

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