noun

• Any of a number of serranid fish that can secrete a toxic soaplike mucus
• Rypticus spp.
• Rypticus bicolor (mottled soapfish)
• Rypticus bistrispinus (freckled soapfish)
• Rypticus bornoi (largespotted soapfish)
• Rypticus carpenteri (slope soapfish)
• Rypticus courtenayi (Socorran soapfish)
• Rypticus maculatus (whitespotted soapfish)
• Rypticus nigripinnis (blackfin soapfish, twice-spotted soapfish)
• Rypticus randalli (plain soapfish)
• Rypticus saponaceus (greater soapfish, three-spined soapfish, soapy jack)
• Rypticus subbifrenatus (spotted soapfish)
• Grammistes sexlineatus (golden stripe soapfish, goldenstriped soapfish, six-lined soapfish, skunkfish
• Aulacocephalus temminckii (goldribbon soapfish, goldstripe grouper)
• Pogonoperca ocellata (Indian soapfish)
• Pogonoperca punctata (leaflip soapfish, spotted soapfish, snowflake soapfish, leaflip grouper)
• Diploprion bifasciatum (barred soapfish, two-banded soapfish)
• Diploprion drachi (yellowfin soapfish)
• A species of lizardfish (Synodus foetens)