English > family Sciaenidae: 1 sense > noun 1, animal| Meaning | 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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