English > order Percomorphi: 1 sense > noun 1, animal| Meaning | One of the largest natural groups of fishes of both marine and fresh water: true perches / perches / perches; basses / basses / basses; tuna / tuna. |
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| Synonyms | Perciformes, order Perciformes, Percomorphi |
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| Member of | Acanthopterygii, superorder Acanthopterygii | teleost fishes having fins with sharp bony rays |
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| Members | Acanthuridae, family Acanthuridae | surgeonfishes |
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| Ammodytidae, family Ammodytidae | sand lances |
| Anabantidae, family Anabantidae | small freshwater spiny-finned fishes of Africa and southern Asia |
| Apogonidae, family Apogonidae | bright-colored marine fishes that incubate eggs in the mouth |
| Blennioidea, suborder Blennioidea | blennies |
| 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 |
| Carangidae, family Carangidae | large family of narrow-bodied marine food fishes with widely forked tails |
| Carapidae, family Carapidae | pearlfishes |
| Centrarchidae, family Centrarchidae | sunfish family |
| Centropomidae, family Centropomidae | A family of fish or the order Perciformes including robalos |
| Chaetodontidae, family Chaetodontidae | butterfly fishes |
| Cichlidae, family Cichlidae | cichlids |
| Coryphaenidae, family Coryphaenidae | large active pelagic percoid fish |
| Eleotridae, family Eleotridae | sleepers |
| Embiotocidae, family Embiotocidae | viviparous percoid fishes comprising the surf fishes |
| Ephippidae, family Ephippidae | small family comprising the spadefishes |
| Esocidae, family Esocidae | pikes |
| Gempylidae, family Gempylidae | snake mackerels |
| Gerreidae, family Gerreidae, Gerridae, family Gerridae | mojarras |
| Gobiesocidae, family Gobiesocidae | clingfishes |
| Gobiidae, family Gobiidae | gobies |
| Haemulidae, family Haemulidae | grunts |
| Kyphosidae, family Kyphosidae | sea chubs |
| Labridae, family Labridae | wrasses |
| Lobotidae, family Lobotidae | tripletails |
| Lutjanidae, family Lutjanidae | snappers |
| Malacanthidae, family Malacanthidae | short-headed marine fishes |
| Microdesmidae, family Microdesmidae | worm fish |
| Mugiloidea, suborder Mugiloidea | fishes distinguished by abdominal pelvic fins |
| Mullidae, family Mullidae | goatfishes or red mullets |
| Ophidiidae, family Ophidiidae | eellike marine fishes |
| Opisthognathidae, family Opisthognathidae | jawfishes |
| Percidae, family Percidae | active freshwater fishes |
| Percoidea, suborder Percoidea | In some classifications nearly or exactly equivalent to the Perciformes which are considered a suborder |
| Percophidae, family Percophidae | percoid flatheads |
| Polynemidae, family Polynemidae | threadfins |
| 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 |
| Rachycentridae, family Rachycentridae | family of pelagic fishes containing solely the cobia |
| Scaridae, family Scaridae | parrotfishes |
| Sciaenidae, family Sciaenidae | warm-water marine fishes including the drums and grunts and croakers and sea trout |
| Scombroidea, suborder Scombroidea | mackerels |
| Serranidae, family Serranidae | marine fishes |
| Sparidae, family Sparidae | porgies |
| Stromateidae, family Stromateidae | butterfishes |
| Toxotidae, family Toxotidae | archerfishes |
| Trichiuridae, family Trichiuridae | cutlassfishes |
| Trichodontidae, family Trichodontidae | Two species of elongate compressed scaleless large-eyed fishes that live in sand or mud |
| Uranoscopidae, family Uranoscopidae | stargazers |
| freshwater bream, bream | Any of various usually edible freshwater percoid fishes having compressed bodies and shiny scales |
| perch | Any of numerous spiny-finned fishes of various families of the order Perciformes |
| percoid fish, percoid, percoidean | Any of numerous spiny-finned fishes of the order Perciformes |
| sea bream, bream | Any of numerous marine percoid fishes especially (but not exclusively) of the family Sparidae |
| Broader | animal order | The order of animals |
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| Spanish | perciformes |
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| Catalan | Perciforme, perciformes, Perciformes |
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