Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A name of the gobioid fishes of the genus Periophthalmus, from their remarkable ability to hop about on mud-flats, and even to climb trees and bushes growing near the shore. The generic name, Periophthalmus, refers to the prominent eyes, set close together, capable of protrusion and retraction, and furnished with a well-developed eyelid. See cut at Periophthalmus.
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Examples
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Yet just as we should greatly misjudge our own race if we confined our attention to everyday routine, so in our total, as distinguished from our average, estimate of fishes, we must remember the salmon surmounting the falls, the wary trout eluding the angler's skill, the common mud-skipper (Periophthalmus) of many tropical shores which climbs on the rocks and the roots of the mangrove-trees, or actively hunts small shore-animals.
The Outline of Science, Vol. 1 (of 4) A Plain Story Simply Told J. Arthur Thomson 1897
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Sea turtles, manatees, crab-eating monkeys, fishing cats, monitor lizards and mud-skipper fish all use the mangrove wetlands for their survival.
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