elephant fish
Gnathonemus numenius latin

Elephant fish are hard to find in the restaurants of the nearest city, Siem Reap.

Elephant fish may refer to:

Duty "Elephant Fish Mix"

Of bread and elephant fish, which were offered them, they refused to taste, but showed that they were fond of birds, as an article of food.

These included: long-nosed elephant fish, hairy-nosed wombat, Gloucester old spot pig; one unfortunate individual even voted for the thylacine, probably now extinct.

Catfish (one species of which grows up to 2 m in length), a kind of carp, tiger fish, elephant fish and sardine-like fish are also caught.

Fragments found in midderns include turban shells, abalone, periwinkle, elephant fish, chiton, beaked mussel and limpets.

Alternative names of the elephant shark include: Australian ghost shark, Makorepe, whitefish, plownose chimaeras or elephant fish.

Other names in English include elephantnose fish, long-nosed elephant fish, and Ubangi mormyrid, after the Ubangi River.

Many small species do so - knife fish in South America, elephant fish in West Africa, so called because they have an elongated lip like a small probing trunk.

They discovered that almost all the reported drownings of dolphins occurred between November and February, when commercial fishermen bring their nets closer to shore, following the breeding dogfish and elephant fish.

You may find elephant fish from Chile one day (or any of the other Chilean fish mentioned in the accompanying article) and dourade royale from Israel the next.

This includes over 30 species of Cyprinidae, Mormyridae (also known as freshwater elephant fish), Barbus, Alestidae, Mochokidae and Cichlids.

People commonly think that the electric eel and the Mediterranean moray must be very similar but in fact bony tongues, butterfly fish, elephant fish and featherbacks are closer on the tree of life.

Mr. Men is a broker, gathering the catch of his fellow fishermen and selling it on periodic trips south to Phnom Penh for export to Hong Kong, where elephant fish are an expensive delicacy.

Out came the limpet-like mollusks known as locos (crazies) and a crate of sea urchins that looked like large, perfectly formed divots - but alas, no elephant fish, a large-headed specimen with a big schnoz that, when threatened, stands bolt upright and spins like a dervish.

The rocking may be gentle, but like other scenes of serenity in Cambodia, it belies the turmoil that lies beneath it - in this case, the energy of more than a ton of fat, silver elephant fish trapped inside a gigantic wooden cage that is the underbelly of Mr. Men's houseboat.