sciaenid fish

Noun
  1. Widely distributed family of carnivorous percoid fishes having a large air bladder used to produce sound (synset 102596880)
    is a type of: percoid, percoid fish, percoidean - any of numerous spiny-finned fishes of the order Perciformes
    subtypes:
    • drum, drumfish - small to medium-sized bottom-dwelling food and game fishes of shallow coastal and fresh waters that make a drumming noise
    • jewfish, mulloway, sciaena antarctica - large important food fish of Australia; almost indistinguishable from the maigre
    • maiger, maigre, sciaena aquila - large European marine food fish
    • croaker - any of several fishes that make a croaking noise
    • whiting - any of several food fishes of North American coastal waters
    • sea trout - any of several sciaenid fishes of North American coastal waters
    belongs to: family sciaenidae, sciaenidae - warm-water marine fishes including the drums and grunts and croakers and sea trout
    same as: sciaenid

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