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a fish that walks the seabed on finger-legs and growls like it owns the place
means A marine fish with a large bony head and spiny fins, distinguished by finger-like pectoral rays it uses to crawl along the seabed and a swim bladder it can vibrate to produce grunting sounds.
from From Old French 'gornart', built on 'grogner', to grunt — itself from Latin 'grunnire', that imitative word for the noise a pig makes. So the name is the fish's voice written down: a creature christened, quite literally, the grunter.
- leg fins
- Uses modified fin rays to walk and taste
- audible grunts
- Drums its swim bladder to growl underwater
- wing bluff
- Flares neon pectoral fins to startle attackers
- taste feet
- Its leg-rays detect prey buried in sand
- flying name
- Some species called sea robins for fanned wings
red gurnard — common edible fish (chelidonichthys lucerna) throughout northeast atlantic and mediterranean
tub gurnard — species (chelidonichthys lucerna) found from norway to senegal, prized in european fisheries
grey gurnard — eutrigla gurnardus, abundant bottom-dwelling fish in north atlantic commercial catches