butterfish

1. is a type of: saltwater fish - flesh of fish from the sea used as food
   is a part of:

   • butterfish, pholis gunnellus, rock gunnel - slippery scaleless food fish of the northern Atlantic coastal waters
   • butterfish, stromateid, stromateid fish - small marine fish with a short compressed body and feeble spines
2. is a type of: percoid, percoid fish, percoidean - any of numerous spiny-finned fishes of the order Perciformes
   subtypes:

   • dollarfish, poronotus triacanthus - small food fish of Atlantic coast
   • california pompano, palometa, palometa simillima - smaller than Florida pompano; common in West Indies
   • harvestfish, paprilus alepidotus - butterfish up to a foot long of Atlantic waters from Chesapeake Bay to Argentina
   • driftfish - small (6 inches) tropical butterfishes found worldwide
   • driftfish - larger butterfishes of the western Atlantic from the New York area to the northern Gulf of Mexico
   • barrelfish, black rudderfish, hyperglyphe perciformis - blackish fish of New England waters
   belongs to: family stromateidae, stromateidae - butterfishes: harvest fishes; dollar fishes
   has: butterfish - any of numerous small flat Atlantic food fish having smooth skin
   same as: stromateid, stromateid fish
3. is a type of: bracketed blenny, gunnel - small eellike fishes common in shallow waters of the northern Atlantic
   belongs to: genus pholis, pholis - type genus of the Pholidae: gunnels
   has: butterfish - any of numerous small flat Atlantic food fish having smooth skin
   same as: pholis gunnellus, rock gunnel

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