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Answer for the clue "Fish with long tubular snout and slim body covered with bony plates ", 8 letters:
pipefish

Word definitions for pipefish in dictionaries

WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
n. fish with long tubular snout and slim body covered with bony plates [syn: needlefish ] [also: pipefishes (pl)]

Wikipedia Word definitions in Wikipedia
Pipefishes or pipe-fishes ( Syngnathinae ) are a subfamily of small fishes , which, together with the seahorses and seadragons, form the family Syngnathidae .

The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Pipefish \Pipe"fish`\, n. (Zo["o]l.) Any lophobranch fish of the genus Siphostoma , or Syngnathus , and allied genera, having a long and very slender angular body, covered with bony plates. The mouth is small, at the end of a long, tubular snout. The male ...

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. a small fish from the seahorse family

Usage examples of pipefish.

According to my theory it's cladistically associated with the Krullian pipefish, sir, which of course is also yellow and goes around in bunches or shoals.