Meaning | small mostly marine warm-water carp-like schooling fishes; used as bait or aquarium fishes or in mosquito control. |
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Narrower | flagfish, American flagfish, Jordanella floridae | A fish with a dark-blue back and whitish sides with red stripes |
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mummichog, Fundulus heteroclitus | silver-and-black killifish of saltwater marshes along the Atlantic coast of the United States |
rivulus | Found in small streams of tropical America |
striped killifish, mayfish, may fish, Fundulus majalis | black-barred fish of bays and coastal marshes of the Atlantic and Gulf Coast of the United States |
Broader | cyprinodont | Any member of the family Cyprinodontidae |
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