A small tropical marine fish found chiefly in the Indo-Pacific region. It typically lives in shallow water and adopts a distinctive perching or ‘hovering’ position just above coral.
䱵科鱼
Family Cirrhitidae: three genera and several species
Example sentencesExamples
From the cooler water morwong, to a splendid angelfish and the brightly speckled hawkfish, this oceanic haven in the middle of a vast sea vibrates to the rhythm of the Pacific's currents.
Hidden in one sea fan I spotted an old favourite, the long-nosed hawkfish.
Among pendant black coral lurked those photographers' delights, tiny orange and red long-nosed hawkfish.
I was delighted to see long-nosed hawkfish on the black coral: the first I had seen east of Fiji.
We noticed hawkfish, blennies, gobies and a variety of crustaceans, often camouflaged with bits of sponge and soft coral for protection.
A hawkfish was lying motionless in a spot with a good overview.
There is also a surprisingly good population of pixie hawkfish skittering between the corals and they all seem to want to pose for the camera.
Definition of hawkfish in US English:
hawkfish
nounˈhôkˌfiSH
A small tropical marine fish found chiefly in the Indo-Pacific region. It typically lives in shallow water and adopts a distinctive perching or “hovering” position just above coral.
䱵科鱼
Family Cirrhitidae: three genera and several species
Example sentencesExamples
I was delighted to see long-nosed hawkfish on the black coral: the first I had seen east of Fiji.
A hawkfish was lying motionless in a spot with a good overview.
Hidden in one sea fan I spotted an old favourite, the long-nosed hawkfish.
Among pendant black coral lurked those photographers' delights, tiny orange and red long-nosed hawkfish.
From the cooler water morwong, to a splendid angelfish and the brightly speckled hawkfish, this oceanic haven in the middle of a vast sea vibrates to the rhythm of the Pacific's currents.
We noticed hawkfish, blennies, gobies and a variety of crustaceans, often camouflaged with bits of sponge and soft coral for protection.
There is also a surprisingly good population of pixie hawkfish skittering between the corals and they all seem to want to pose for the camera.