English > fish family: 1 sense > noun 1, animal| Meaning | Any of various families of fish. |
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| Member of | Vertebrata, subphylum Vertebrata, Craniata, subphylum Craniata | fishes |
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| Narrower | Acanthuridae, family Acanthuridae | surgeonfishes |
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| Acipenseridae, family Acipenseridae | sturgeons |
| Agonidae, family Agonidae | poachers |
| Albulidae, family Albulidae | bonefish |
| Alopiidae, family Alopiidae | thresher sharks |
| Ameiuridae, family Ameiuridae | North American catfishes |
| Amiidae, family Amiidae | Only the bowfins |
| Ammodytidae, family Ammodytidae | sand lances |
| Anabantidae, family Anabantidae | small freshwater spiny-finned fishes of Africa and southern Asia |
| Anarhichadidae, family Anarhichadidae | wolffishes |
| Anguillidae, family Anguillidae | eels that live in fresh water as adults but return to the sea to spawn |
| Anomalopidae, family Anomalopidae | A family of fish including |
| Antennariidae, family Antennariidae | frogfishes |
| Apogonidae, family Apogonidae | bright-colored marine fishes that incubate eggs in the mouth |
| Argentinidae, family Argentinidae | small marine soft-finned fishes with long silvery bodies |
| Ariidae, family Ariidae | sea catfishes |
| Atherinidae, family Atherinidae | small spiny-finned fishes of both salt and fresh water |
| Aulostomidae, family Aulostomidae | trumpetfishes |
| Balistidae, family Balistidae | triggerfishes |
| Batrachoididae, family Batrachoididae | toadfishes |
| Belonidae, family Belonidae | ferocious fishes of warm regions resembling but unrelated to the freshwater gars |
| Blenniidae, family Blenniidae | A family of fish including |
| Bothidae, family Bothidae | A family of fish of the order Heterosomata |
| Bramidae, family Bramidae | Deep-bodied percoid fishes of the open / open seas |
| Branchiostegidae, family Branchiostegidae | small family of marine fishes having covered gills |
| Brotulidae, family Brotulidae | chiefly deep-sea fishes related to the Ophidiidae |
| Callionymidae, family Callionymidae | dragonets |
| Caproidae, family Caproidae | boarfishes |
| Carangidae, family Carangidae | large family of narrow-bodied marine food fishes with widely forked tails |
| Carapidae, family Carapidae | pearlfishes |
| Carcharhinidae, family Carcharhinidae | largest family of living sharks |
| Carchariidae, family Carchariidae, Odontaspididae, family Odontaspididae | sand sharks |
| Catostomidae, family Catostomidae | suckers |
| Centrarchidae, family Centrarchidae | sunfish family |
| Centriscidae, family Centriscidae | shrimpfishes |
| Centropomidae, family Centropomidae | A family of fish or the order Perciformes including robalos |
| Ceratodontidae, family Ceratodontidae | lungfishes having hornlike ridges on the teeth |
| Cetorhinidae, family Cetorhinidae | In some older classifications considered the family of the basking sharks |
| Chaetodontidae, family Chaetodontidae | butterfly fishes |
| Characidae, family Characidae | Tropical freshwater fishes of Africa and South America and Central America |
| Characinidae, family Characinidae | former name of the Characidae |
| Chimaeridae, family Chimaeridae | A family of Holocephali |
| Chlorophthalmidae, family Chlorophthalmidae | small family of soft-finned bottom-dwellers with large eyes |
| Cichlidae, family Cichlidae | cichlids |
| Clinidae, family Clinidae | viviparous blennies of temperate and tropical seas |
| Clupeidae, family Clupeidae | herrings |
| Cobitidae, family Cobitidae | loaches |
| Congridae, family Congridae | marine eels |
| Coregonidae, family Coregonidae | soft-finned fishes comprising the freshwater whitefishes |
| Coryphaenidae, family Coryphaenidae | large active pelagic percoid fish |
| Cottidae, family Cottidae | sculpins |
| Cyclopteridae, family Cyclopteridae | lumpfishes |
| Cynoglossidae, family Cynoglossidae | tonguefishes |
| Cyprinidae, family Cyprinidae | A family of fish including |
| Cyprinodontidae, family Cyprinodontidae | large family of small soft-finned fishes |
| Dactylopteridae, family Dactylopteridae | flying gurnards |
| Dactyloscopidae, family Dactyloscopidae | sand stargazers |
| Dasyatidae, family Dasyatidae | sting rays |
| Diodontidae, family Diodontidae | spiny puffers |
| Echeneididae, family Echeneididae, family Echeneidae | fishes having a sucking disk on the head for clinging to other fishes and to ships |
| Electrophoridae, family Electrophoridae | small family comprising the electric eels |
| Eleotridae, family Eleotridae | sleepers |
| Elopidae, family Elopidae | tarpons and ladyfishes |
| Embiotocidae, family Embiotocidae | viviparous percoid fishes comprising the surf fishes |
| Engraulidae, family Engraulidae | anchovies |
| Ephippidae, family Ephippidae | small family comprising the spadefishes |
| Esocidae, family Esocidae | pikes |
| Exocoetidae, family Exocoetidae | flying fishes |
| Fistulariidae, family Fistulariidae | cornetfishes |
| Gadidae, family Gadidae | large family of important mostly marine food fishes |
| Gasterosteidae, family Gasterosteidae | sticklebacks |
| Gempylidae, family Gempylidae | snake mackerels |
| Gerreidae, family Gerreidae, Gerridae, family Gerridae | mojarras |
| Gobiesocidae, family Gobiesocidae | clingfishes |
| Gobiidae, family Gobiidae | gobies |
| Gonorhynchidae, family Gonorhynchidae | coextensive with the genus Gonorhynchus |
| Haemulidae, family Haemulidae | grunts |
| Hemiramphidae, family Hemiramphidae | halfbeaks |
| Hexagrammidae, family Hexagrammidae | greenlings |
| Hexanchidae, family Hexanchidae | Primitive sharks |
| Holocentridae, family Holocentridae | squirrelfishes and soldierfishes |
| Istiophoridae, family Istiophoridae | sailfishes |
| Isuridae, family Isuridae | In some classifications another name for the family Lamnidae |
| Katsuwonidae, family Kasuwonidae | In some classifications considered a separate family comprising the oceanic bonitos |
| Kyphosidae, family Kyphosidae | sea chubs |
| Labridae, family Labridae | wrasses |
| Lamnidae, family Lamnidae | Oceanic sharks |
| Lampridae, family Lampridae | opahs |
| Laricariidae, family Laricariidae | armored catfish |
| Latimeridae, family Latimeridae | Extinct except for the coelacanth |
| Lepisosteidae, family Lepisosteidae | Comprises the genus Lepisosteus |
| Liparididae, family Liparididae, Liparidae, family Liparidae | snailfishes |
| Lobotidae, family Lobotidae | tripletails |
| Lophiidae, family Lophiidae | large-headed marine fishes comprising the anglers |
| Lutjanidae, family Lutjanidae | snappers |
| Luvaridae, family Luvaridae | louvars |
| Macrorhamphosidae, family Macrorhamphosidae | bellows fishes |
| Macrouridae, family Macrouridae, Macruridae, family Macruridae | grenadiers |
| Malacanthidae, family Malacanthidae | short-headed marine fishes |
| Microdesmidae, family Microdesmidae | worm fish |
| Mobulidae, family Mobulidae | large rays lacking venomous spines |
| Molidae, family Molidae | ocean sunfishes |
| Monocanthidae, family Monocanthidae | filefishes |
| Mugilidae, family Mugilidae | Grey mullets |
| Mullidae, family Mullidae | goatfishes or red mullets |
| Muraenidae, family Muraenidae | marine eels |
| Myctophidae, family Myctophidae | Deep-sea fishes comprising the lantern fishes |
| Myliobatidae, family Myliobatidae | eagle rays |
| Myxinidae, family Myxinidae | slime-producing marine animals |
| Ogcocephalidae, family Ogcocephalidae | batfishes |
| Ophidiidae, family Ophidiidae | eellike marine fishes |
| Ophiodontidae, family Ophiodontidae | fishes closely related to greenlings |
| Opisthognathidae, family Opisthognathidae | jawfishes |
| Orectolobidae, family Orectolobidae | nurse sharks and carpet sharks |
| Osmeridae, family Osmeridae | smelts |
| Osteoglossidae, family Osteoglossidae | A family of large fishes that live in freshwater |
| Ostraciidae, family Ostraciidae, family Ostraciontidae | boxfishes |
| Pempheridae, family Pempheridae | sweepers |
| Percidae, family Percidae | active freshwater fishes |
| Percophidae, family Percophidae | percoid flatheads |
| Peristediinae, subfamily Peristediinae | In some classifications considered a subfamily of Triglidae comprising the armored searobins |
| Petromyzontidae, family Petromyzontidae | lampreys |
| Pholidae, family Pholidae, family Pholididae | A family of fish of suborder Blennioidea |
| Platycephalidae, family Platycephalidae | scorpaenoid flatheads |
| Pleuronectidae, family Pleuronectidae | righteye flounders |
| Poeciliidae, family Poeciliidae | topminnows |
| Polynemidae, family Polynemidae | threadfins |
| Polyodontidae, family Polyodontidae | paddlefishes |
| Pomacentridae, family Pomacentridae | damselfishes |
| Pomatomidae, family Pomatomidae | food and game fishes related to pompanos |
| Priacanthidae, family Priacanthidae | small carnivorous percoid fishes found worldwide / worldwide in tropical seas |
| Pristidae, family Pristidae | large primitive rays with elongated snouts |
| Rachycentridae, family Rachycentridae | family of pelagic fishes containing solely the cobia |
| Rajidae, family Rajidae | bottom-dwelling tropical rays |
| Regalecidae, family Regalecidae | ribbonfishes |
| Rhincodontidae, family Rhincodontidae | small-toothed sharks comprising only one species |
| Rhinobatidae, family Rhinobatidae | Primitive rays with guitar-shaped bodies |
| Salmonidae, family Salmonidae | salmon and trout |
| Scaridae, family Scaridae | parrotfishes |
| Sciaenidae, family Sciaenidae | warm-water marine fishes including the drums and grunts and croakers and sea trout |
| Scomberesocidae, family Scomberesocidae, Scombresocidae, family Scombresocidae | Only sauries |
| Scombridae, family Scombridae | marine food fishes |
| Scorpaenidae, family Scorpaenidae | scorpionfishes |
| Scyliorhinidae, family Scyliorhinidae | small bottom-dwelling sharks |
| Serranidae, family Serranidae | marine fishes |
| Sillaginidae, family Sillaginidae | small family of small food fishes in shallow waters of the Pacific around Indonesia |
| Siluridae, family Siluridae | Old World catfishes |
| Soleidae, family Soleidae | soles |
| Sparidae, family Sparidae | porgies |
| Sphyraenidae, family Sphyraenidae | monotypic family of large active fishes of tropical and subtropical waters |
| Sphyrnidae, family Sphyrnidae | hammerhead sharks |
| Squalidae, family Squalidae | dogfishes having a spine in each dorsal fin |
| Squatinidae, family Squatinidae | bottom-dwelling ray-like sharks |
| Stichaeidae, family Stichaeidae | pricklebacks |
| Stromateidae, family Stromateidae | butterfishes |
| Syngnathidae, family Syngnathidae | pipefishes |
| Synodontidae, family Synodontidae | soft-finned bottom-dwelling fishes |
| Tetraodontidae, family Tetraodontidae | puffers |
| Torpedinidae, family Torpedinidae | electric rays |
| Toxotidae, family Toxotidae | archerfishes |
| Trachipteridae, family Trachipteridae | ribbonfishes |
| Triakidae, family Triakidae | small sharks with smooth skins and lacking spines on their dorsal fins |
| Trichiuridae, family Trichiuridae | cutlassfishes |
| Trichodontidae, family Trichodontidae | Two species of elongate compressed scaleless large-eyed fishes that live in sand or mud |
| Triglidae, family Triglidae | In some classifications restricted to the gurnards and subdivided into the subfamilies Triglinae (true sea robins) and Peristediinae (armored sea robins) |
| Triglinae, subfamily Triglinae | In some classifications considered a subfamily of Triglidae comprising searobins having ordinary scales and no barbels (true searobins) |
| Uranoscopidae, family Uranoscopidae | stargazers |
| Xiphiidae, family Xiphiidae | Comprising the common swordfishes |
| Zeidae, family Zeidae | A family of fish in the order Zeomorphi |
| Zoarcidae, family Zoarcidae | eelpouts |
| Broader | family | (biology) a taxonomic group containing one or more genera |
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| Spanish | peces |
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| Catalan | família de peixos, peixos |
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