English > family Sciaenidae: 1 sense > noun 1, animalMeaning | warm-water marine fishes including the drums and grunts and croakers and sea trout. |
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Synonym | Sciaenidae |
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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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Members | Bairdiella, genus Bairdiella | drumfish |
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Cynoscion, genus Cynoscion | sea trout |
Equetus, genus Equetus | drumfish |
Genyonemus, genus Genyonemus | A genus of Sciaenidae |
Menticirrhus, genus Menticirrhus | kingfishes |
Micropogonias, genus Micropogonias | croakers |
Sciaena, genus Sciaena | type genus of the Sciaenidae |
Sciaenops, genus Sciaenops | A genus of Sciaenidae |
Seriphus, genus Seriphus | A genus of Sciaenidae |
Umbrina, genus Umbrina | croakers |
sciaenid fish, sciaenid | widely distributed family of carnivorous percoid fishes having a large air bladder used to produce sound |
Broader | fish family | Any of various families of fish |
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