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.
sandfish n 1: 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}]