Fierasfer

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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Fierasfer \Fi`e*ras"fer\, n. [NL.] (Zool.)
     A genus of small, slender fishes, remarkable for their habit
     of living as commensals in other animals. One species
     inhabits the gill cavity of the pearl oyster near Panama;
     another lives within an East Indian holothurian.
     [1913 Webster]