What is "sandfish"

Sandfish \Sand"fish`\, n. (Zo["o]l.) A small marine fish of the Pacific coast of North America ( Trichodon trichodon) which buries itself in the sand.

1. n. either of two small silvery scaleless fishes of the northern Pacific that burrow into sand

2. fish of sandy areas of western Pacific and Indian oceans having an angular snout for burrowing into sand [syn: beaked salmon, Gonorhynchus gonorhynchus]

Sandfish is a common name of:

• Scincus scincus, a skink
• Holothuria scabra, a sea cucumber
• Beaked sandfish, a genus of fish, see Gonorynchus
• Southern sandfish, a family of fish
• Belted sandfish, a species of fish
• Clanwilliam sandfish, a species of fish
• Awaous tajasica, a fish of the Gobiidae family
• Arctoscopus japonicus, the sailfin sandfish of the Trichodontidae family, known in Japan as hatahata
• Trichodon trichodon, the Pacific sandfish, Japanese name ezo hatahata
• Trichonotus, a genus of fish