pisci chitarra

/PEE-shee kee-TAHR-rah/
[Sicilian]

"Guitar fish." A name in Sicily for the guitar fish or violin fish. Named, as one might expect, from the elongated ray shape, resembling a string instrument. Found around Crete and the southern Mediterranean. Treated in the same way as angel fish.

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