blennioid fish

Noun
  1. Elongated mostly scaleless marine fishes with large pectoral fins and reduced pelvic fins (synset 102615287)
    is a type of: percoid, percoid fish, percoidean - any of numerous spiny-finned fishes of the order Perciformes
    subtypes:
    • blenny, combtooth blenny - small usually scaleless fishes with comb-like teeth living about rocky shores; are territorial and live in holes between rocks
    • clinid, clinid fish - mostly small blennioid fishes of coral reefs and seagrass beds
    • pikeblenny - tropical American fishes; males are aggressively defensive of their territory
    • bracketed blenny, gunnel - small eellike fishes common in shallow waters of the northern Atlantic
    • prickleback - small elongate fishes of shallow northern seas; a long dorsal fin consists entirely of spines
    • cryptacanthodes maculatus, ghostfish, wrymouth - eellike Atlantic bottom fish with large almost vertical mouth
    • catfish, wolf fish, wolffish - large ferocious northern deep-sea food fishes with strong teeth and no pelvic fins
    • eelpout, pout - marine eellike mostly bottom-dwelling fishes of northern seas
    belongs to: blennioidea, suborder blennioidea - blennies; butterfishes; gunnels
    same as: blennioid

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