percoidean

Noun
  1. Any of numerous spiny-finned fishes of the order Perciformes (synset 102557361)
    is a type of: acanthopterygian, spiny-finned fish - a teleost fish with fins that are supported by sharp inflexible rays
    subtypes:
    • perch - any of numerous spiny-finned fishes of various families of the order Perciformes
    • perch - spiny-finned freshwater food and game fishes
    • sandfish - either of two small silvery scaleless fishes of the northern Pacific that burrow into sand
    • cusk-eel - elongate compressed somewhat eel-shaped fishes
    • brotula - deep-sea fishes
    • pearl-fish, pearlfish - found living within the alimentary canals of e.g. sea cucumbers or between the shells of pearl oysters in or near shallow seagrass beds
    • robalo - a kind of percoid fish
    • pike - any of several elongate long-snouted freshwater game and food fishes widely distributed in cooler parts of the northern hemisphere
    • centrarchid, sunfish - small carnivorous freshwater percoid fishes of North America usually having a laterally compressed body and metallic luster: crappies; black bass; bluegills; pumpkinseed
    • bass - nontechnical name for any of numerous edible marine and freshwater spiny-finned fishes
    • serranid, serranid fish - marine food sport fishes mainly of warm coastal waters
    • surf fish, surffish, surfperch - small to medium-sized shallow-water fishes of the Pacific coast of North America
    • bigeye - red fishes of American coastal tropical waters having very large eyes and rough scales
    • catalufa, priacanthus arenatus - brightly colored carnivorous fish of western Atlantic and West Indies waters
    • cardinalfish - small red fishes of coral reefs and inshore tropical waters
    • lopholatilus chamaeleonticeps, tilefish - yellow-spotted violet food fish of warm deep waters
    • bluefish, pomatomus saltatrix - bluish warm-water marine food and game fish that follow schools of small fishes into shallow waters
    • cobia, rachycentron canadum, sergeant fish - large dark-striped tropical food and game fish related to remoras; found worldwide in coastal to open waters
    • carangid, carangid fish - a percoid fish of the family Carangidae
    • dolphin, dolphinfish, mahimahi - large slender food and game fish widely distributed in warm seas (especially around Hawaii)
    • blanquillo, tilefish - important marine food fishes
    • cichlid, cichlid fish - freshwater fishes of tropical America and Africa and Asia similar to American sunfishes; some are food fishes; many small ones are popular in aquariums
    • snapper - any of several large sharp-toothed marine food and sport fishes of the family Lutjanidae of mainly tropical coastal waters
    • grunt - medium-sized tropical marine food fishes that utter grunting sounds when caught
    • sparid, sparid fish - spiny-finned food fishes of warm waters having well-developed teeth
    • bream, sea bream - any of numerous marine percoid fishes especially (but not exclusively) of the family Sparidae
    • sciaenid, sciaenid fish - widely distributed family of carnivorous percoid fishes having a large air bladder used to produce sound
    • mullet - bottom dwelling marine warm water fishes with two barbels on the chin
    • gray mullet, grey mullet, mullet - freshwater or coastal food fishes a spindle-shaped body; found worldwide
    • sea chub - schooling fishes mostly of Indian and western Pacific oceans; two species in western Atlantic
    • angelfish, chaetodipterus faber, spadefish - deep-bodied disk-shaped food fish of warmer western Atlantic coastal waters
    • butterfly fish - small usually brilliantly colored tropical marine fishes having narrow deep bodies with large broad fins; found worldwide
    • damselfish, demoiselle - small brilliantly colored tropical marine fishes of coral reefs
    • wrasse - chiefly tropical marine fishes with fleshy lips and powerful teeth; usually brightly colored
    • parrotfish, polly fish, pollyfish - gaudy tropical fishes with parrotlike beaks formed by fusion of teeth
    • threadfin - mullet-like tropical marine fishes having pectoral fins with long threadlike rays
    • jawfish - small large-mouthed tropical marine fishes common along sandy bottoms; males brood egg balls in their mouths; popular aquarium fishes
    • stargazer - heavy-bodied marine bottom-lurkers with eyes on flattened top of the head
    • sand stargazer - small pallid fishes of shoal tropical waters of North America and South America having eyes on stalks atop head; they burrow in sand to await prey
    • blennioid, blennioid fish - elongated mostly scaleless marine fishes with large pectoral fins and reduced pelvic fins
    • goby, gudgeon - small spiny-finned fish of coastal or brackish waters having a large head and elongated tapering body having the ventral fins modified as a sucker
    • sleeper, sleeper goby - tropical fish that resembles a goby and rests quietly on the bottom in shallow water
    • flathead - pallid bottom-dwelling flat-headed fish with large eyes and a duck-like snout
    • archerfish, toxotes jaculatrix - any of several small freshwater fishes that catch insects by squirting water at them and knocking them into the water; found in Indonesia and Australia
    • worm fish - poorly known family of small tropical shallow-water fishes related to gobies
    • surgeonfish - brightly colored coral-reef fish with knifelike spines at the tail
    • gempylid - snake mackerels; elongated marine fishes with oily flesh; resembles mackerels; found worldwide
    • cutlassfish, frost fish, hairtail - long-bodied marine fishes having a long whiplike scaleless body and sharp teeth; closely related to snake mackerel
    • scombroid, scombroid fish - important marine food and game fishes found in all tropical and temperate seas; some are at least partially endothermic and can thrive in colder waters
    • butterfish, stromateid, stromateid fish - small marine fish with a short compressed body and feeble spines
    • clingfish - very small (to 3 inches) flattened marine fish with a sucking disc on the abdomen for clinging to rocks etc.
    • tripletail - large food fish of warm waters worldwide having long anal and dorsal fins that with a caudal fin suggest a three-lobed tail
    • mojarra - small silvery schooling fishes with protrusible mouths found in warm coastal waters
    • whiting - a small fish of the genus Sillago; excellent food fish
    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: percoid, percoid fish

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