Moon·fish n. Zool. (a) An American marine fish (Vomer setipennis); -- called also bluntnosed shiner, horsefish, and sunfish. (b) A broad, thin, silvery marine fish (Selene vomer); -- called also lookdown, and silver moonfish. (c) The mola. See Sunfish, 1.
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Horse·head n. Zool. The silver moonfish (Selene vomer).
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Selene vomer
n : similar to moonfish but with eyes high on the truncated
forehead [syn: lookdown, lookdown fish]