Meaning | widely distributed family of carnivorous percoid fishes having a large air bladder used to produce sound. |
---|
Synonym | sciaenid |
---|
Member of | Sciaenidae, family Sciaenidae | warm-water marine fishes including the drums and grunts and croakers and sea trout |
---|
Narrower | croaker | Any of several fishes that make a croaking noise |
---|
drum, drumfish | small to medium-sized bottom-dwelling food and game fishes of shallow coastal and fresh waters that make a drumming noise |
maigre, maiger, Sciaena aquila | large European marine food fish |
mulloway, jewfish, Sciaena antarctica | large important food fish of Australia |
sea trout | Any of several sciaenid fishes of North American coastal waters |
whiting | Any of several food fishes of North American coastal waters |
Broader | percoid fish, percoid, percoidean | Any of numerous spiny-finned fishes of the order Perciformes |
---|
Spanish | sciaenid |
---|