English > percoidean: 1 sense > noun 1, animal| Meaning | Any of numerous spiny-finned fishes of the order Perciformes. |
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| Synonyms | percoid fish, percoid |
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| Member of | Perciformes, order Perciformes, Percomorphi, order Percomorphi | One of the largest natural groups of fishes of both marine and fresh water |
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| Narrower | archerfish, Toxotes jaculatrix | Any of several small freshwater fishes that catch insects by squirting water at them and knocking them into the water |
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| bass | nontechnical name for any of numerous edible marine and freshwater spiny-finned fishes |
| bigeye | Red fishes of American coastal tropical waters having very large eyes and rough scales |
| blanquillo, tilefish | Important marine food fishes |
| blennioid fish, blennioid | elongated mostly scaleless marine fishes with large pectoral fins and reduced pelvic fins |
| bluefish, Pomatomus saltatrix | bluish warm-water marine food and game fish that follow schools of small fishes into shallow waters |
| brotula | Deep-sea fishes |
| butterfish, stromateid fish, stromateid | small marine fish with a short compressed body and feeble spines |
| butterfly fish | small usually brilliantly colored tropical marine fishes having narrow deep bodies with large broad fins |
| carangid fish, carangid | A percoid fish of the family Carangidae |
| cardinalfish | small red fishes of coral reefs and inshore tropical waters |
| catalufa, Priacanthus arenatus | brightly colored carnivorous fish of western Atlantic and West Indies waters |
| cichlid, cichlid fish | freshwater fishes of tropical America and Africa and Asia similar to American sunfishes |
| clingfish | Very small (to 3 inches) flattened marine fish with a sucking disc on the abdomen for clinging to rocks etc. |
| cobia, Rachycentron canadum, sergeant fish | large dark-striped tropical food and game fish related to remoras |
| cusk-eel | elongate compressed somewhat eel-shaped fishes |
| cutlassfish, frost fish, hairtail | long-bodied marine fishes having a long whiplike scaleless body and sharp teeth |
| damselfish, demoiselle | small brilliantly colored tropical marine fishes of coral reefs |
| dolphinfish, dolphin, mahimahi | large slender food and game fish widely distributed in warm seas (especially around Hawaii) |
| flathead | pallid bottom-dwelling flat-headed fish with large eyes and a duck-like snout |
| gempylid | snake mackerels |
| 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 |
| grunt | medium-sized tropical marine food fishes that utter grunting sounds when caught |
| jawfish | small large-mouthed tropical marine fishes common along sandy bottoms |
| mojarra | small silvery schooling fishes with protrusible mouths found in warm coastal waters |
| mullet | bottom dwelling marine warm water fishes with two barbels on the chin |
| mullet, grey mullet, gray mullet | Freshwater or coastal food fishes a spindle-shaped body |
| parrotfish, polly fish, pollyfish | gaudy tropical fishes with parrotlike beaks formed by fusion of teeth |
| pearlfish, pearl-fish | Found living within the alimentary canals of e.g. sea cucumbers or between the shells of pearl oysters in or near shallow seagrass beds |
| perch | spiny-finned freshwater food and game fishes |
| perch | Any of numerous spiny-finned fishes of various families of the order Perciformes |
| pike | Any of several elongate long-snouted freshwater game and food fishes widely distributed in cooler parts of the northern hemisphere |
| robalo | A kind of percoid fish |
| sand stargazer | small pallid fishes of shoal tropical waters of North America and South America having eyes on stalks atop head |
| sandfish | Either of two small silvery scaleless fishes of the northern Pacific that burrow into sand |
| sciaenid fish, sciaenid | widely distributed family of carnivorous percoid fishes having a large air bladder used to produce sound |
| scombroid, scombroid fish | Important marine food and game fishes found in all tropical and temperate seas |
| sea bream, bream | Any of numerous marine percoid fishes especially (but not exclusively) of the family Sparidae |
| sea chub | schooling fishes mostly of Indian and western Pacific oceans |
| serranid fish, serranid | marine food sport fishes mainly of warm coastal waters |
| sleeper, sleeper goby | Tropical fish that resembles a goby and rests / rests quietly on the bottom in shallow water |
| snapper | Any of several large sharp-toothed marine food and sport fishes of the family Lutjanidae of mainly tropical coastal waters |
| spadefish, angelfish, Chaetodipterus faber | Deep-bodied disk-shaped food fish of warmer western Atlantic coastal waters |
| sparid, sparid fish | spiny-finned food fishes of warm waters having well-developed teeth |
| stargazer | Heavy-bodied marine bottom-lurkers with eyes on flattened top of the head |
| sunfish, centrarchid | small carnivorous freshwater percoid fishes of North America usually having a laterally compressed body and metallic luster |
| surfperch, surffish, surf fish | small to medium-sized shallow-water fishes of the Pacific coast of North America |
| surgeonfish | brightly colored coral-reef fish with knifelike spines at the tail |
| threadfin | Mullet-like tropical marine fishes having pectoral fins with long threadlike rays |
| tilefish, Lopholatilus chamaeleonticeps | yellow-spotted violet food fish of warm deep waters |
| tripletail | large food fish of warm waters worldwide / worldwide having long anal and dorsal fins that with a caudal fin suggest a three-lobed tail |
| whiting | A small fish of the genus Sillago |
| worm fish | poorly known family of small tropical shallow-water fishes related to gobies |
| wrasse | chiefly tropical marine fishes with fleshy lips and powerful teeth |
| Broader | spiny-finned fish, acanthopterygian | A teleost fish with fins that are supported by sharp inflexible rays |
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| Spanish | perciforme, percóideo, pez percóideo |
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| Catalan | perciforme |
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