"finger fish" meaning in English

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          "text": "Finger fish are very plentiful in this country. They are of the length of a man's finger, and lie in the bottom of the water about one or two feet deep. They are very good.",
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          "text": "The sponge, the coral, and the madrepore will remain as indifferent to the fury of the elements as the rock on which they are incrusted, or as the shingle on which the finger-fish spreads his four marble arms.",
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          "text": "Polynemus lineatus, the lineated finger-fiſh: appendages five, reaching to the anus; twelve brown longitudinal ſtripes on each ſide.",
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