noun

• A small eel-like fish with a tapering body and fins that form a pointed tail, typically found in deep water.

  Family Ophidiidae: numerous genera

  ‘Courtenay describes the sound producing mechanism of adult striped cusk-eels, and which is found only in the males.’

  More example sentences

  • ‘Calling was often initiated while cusk-eels were still partially or entirely burrowed.’
  • ‘This is the only cusk-eel sound that has been identified to the species level.’
  • ‘We believe that our observations suggest widespread spawning of striped cusk-eels within estuaries of both the north and south shores of Cape Cod.’
  • ‘A cusk eel takes refuge in a crevice, under an umbrella of gorgonian corals.’