iridio radiatus

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iridio radiatus - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  Pudding fish \Pud"ding fish\, Pudding wife \Pudding wife\ [Prob.
     corrupted fr. the Sp. name in Cuba, pudiano verde.] (Zool.)
     A large, handsomely colored, blue and bronze, labroid fish
     (Iridio radiatus, syn. Platyglossus radiatus) of Florida,
     Bermuda, and the West Indies. Called also pudiano,
     doncella, and, at Bermuda, bluefish.
     [Webster 1913 Suppl.]