Meaning | spiny-finned food fishes of warm waters having well-developed teeth. |
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Synonym | sparid fish |
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Member of | Sparidae, family Sparidae | porgies |
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Narrower | pinfish, sailor's-choice, squirrelfish, Lagodon rhomboides | Similar to sea bream |
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sheepshead, Archosargus probatocephalus | large (up to 20 lbs) food fish of the eastern coast of the United States and Mexico |
snapper, Chrysophrys auratus | Australian food fish having a pinkish body with blue spots |
Broader | percoid fish, percoid, percoidean | Any of numerous spiny-finned fishes of the order Perciformes |
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