scorpaenoid fish

Noun
  1. Fishes having the head armored with bony plates (synset 102644737)
    is a type of: acanthopterygian, spiny-finned fish - a teleost fish with fins that are supported by sharp inflexible rays
    subtypes:
    • lingcod, ophiodon elongatus - food fish of the northern Pacific related to greenlings
    • scorpaenid, scorpaenid fish - any of numerous carnivorous usually bottom-dwelling warm-water marine fishes found worldwide but most abundant in the Pacific
    • sculpin - any of numerous spiny large-headed usually scaleless scorpaenoid fishes with broad mouths
    • cyclopterus lumpus, lumpfish - clumsy soft thick-bodied northern Atlantic fish with pelvic fins fused into a sucker; edible roe used for caviar
    • liparis liparis, sea snail, seasnail, snailfish - small tadpole-shaped cold-water fishes with pelvic fins forming a sucker; related to lumpfish
    • poacher, sea poacher, sea poker - small slender fish (to 8 inches) with body covered by bony plates; chiefly of deeper northern Pacific waters
    • greenling - food fish of the northern Pacific
    • flathead - food fish of the Indonesian region of the Pacific; resembles gurnards
    • gurnard - bottom-dwelling coastal fishes with spiny armored heads and fingerlike pectoral fins used for crawling along the sea bottom
    • butterflyfish, flying gurnard, flying robin - tropical fish with huge fanlike pectoral fins for underwater gliding; unrelated to searobins
    belongs to: scorpaenoidea, suborder scorpaenoidea - mail-cheeked fishes: scorpionfishes; gurnards
    same as: scorpaenoid

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