spadefish

Any of several marine food and game fishes of the family Ephippidae, especially Chaetodipterus faber of warm western Atlantic coastal waters, having a deep, laterally compressed body with a short snout.

Chætodipterus faber: same as moonfish . See angel-fish, 3, and cut under Chætodipterus.

Same as paddle-fish.

An American market fish (Chætodipterus faber) common on the southern coasts; — called also angel fish, moonfish, and porgy.

Any of several marine fish of the family Ephippidae

deep-bodied disk-shaped food fish of warmer western Atlantic coastal waters