family carangidae

1. Large family of narrow-bodied marine food fishes with widely forked tails;
   Chiefly of warm seas (synset 102578397)
   is a type of: fish family - any of various families of fish
   member holonym:

   • carangid, carangid fish - a percoid fish of the family Carangidae
   • caranx, genus caranx - type genus of the Carangidae
   • jack - any of several fast-swimming predacious fishes of tropical to warm temperate seas
   • elagatis, genus elagatis - a genus of Carangidae
   • genus oligoplites, oligoplites - leatherjackets
   • alectis, genus alectis - a genus of Carangidae
   • genus selene, selene - a genus of Carangidae
   • genus seriola, seriola - a genus of Carangidae
   • genus trachinotus, trachinotus - a genus of Carangidae
   • genus naucrates, naucrates - a genus of Carangidae
   • scad - any of a number of fishes of the family Carangidae
   • genus trachurus, trachurus - the scads (particularly horse mackerels)
   • genus selar, selar - big-eyed scad
   • decapterus, genus decapterus - scads especially mackerel scad; cosmopolitan in distribution
   belongs to: order perciformes, order percomorphi, perciformes, percomorphi - one of the largest natural groups of fishes of both marine and fresh water: true perches; basses; tuna
   same as: carangidae

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