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- Malacopterygii, superorder Malacopterygii
- an extensive group of teleost fishes having fins supported by flexible cartilaginous rays
- soft-finned fish, malacopterygian
- any fish of the superorder Malacopterygii
- Ostariophysi, order Ostariophysi
- in some classifications considered a superorder comprising the Cypriniformes and the Siluriformes
- Cypriniformes, order Cypriniformes
- an order of animals including almost entirely freshwater fishes: characins; loaches; carp; suckers; sometimes classified as a suborder of Ostariophysi
- cypriniform fish
- a soft-finned fish of the order Cypriniformes
- Cobitidae, family Cobitidae
- loaches
- loach
- slender freshwater fishes of Eurasia and Africa resembling catfishes
- Cyprinidae, family Cyprinidae
- a family of fish including: carp; tench; roach; rudd; dace
- cyprinid, cyprinid fish
- soft-finned mainly freshwater fishes typically having toothless jaws and cycloid scales
- carp
- any of various freshwater fish of the family_Cyprinidae
- Cyprinus, genus Cyprinus
- type genus of the family Cyprinidae: carp
- domestic carp, Cyprinus carpio
- large Old World freshwater bottom-feeding fish introduced into Europe from Asia; inhabits ponds and sluggish streams and often raised for food; introduced into United States where it has become a pest
- leather carp
- scaleless domestic carp
- mirror carp
- domestic carp with some large large shining scales
- Abramis, genus Abramis
- European fishes
- European bream, Abramis brama
- European freshwater fish having a flattened body and silvery scales; of little value as food
- Tinca, genus Tinca
- tench
- tench, Tinca tinca
- freshwater dace-like game fish of Europe and western Asia noted for ability to survive outside water
- Leuciscus, genus Leuciscus
- a genus of fish including: dace, chub
- dace, Leuciscus leuciscus
- small European freshwater fish with a slender bluish-green body
- chub, Leuciscus cephalus
- European freshwater game fish with a thick spindle-shaped body
- shiner
- any of numerous small silvery North American cyprinid fishes especially of the genus Notropis
- Notropis, genus Notropis
- shiners
- emerald shiner, Notropis atherinoides
- small blunt-nosed fish of Great Lakes and Mississippi valley with a greenish luster
- common shiner, silversides, Notropis cornutus
- the common North American shiner
- Notemigonus, genus Notemigonus
- golden shiners
- golden shiner, Notemigonus crysoleucas
- shiner of eastern North America having golden glints; sometimes also called `bream'
- Rutilus, genus Rutilus
- roaches
- roach, Rutilus rutilus
- European freshwater food fish having a greenish back
- Scardinius, genus Scardinius
- rudds
- rudd, Scardinius erythrophthalmus
- European freshwater fish resembling the roach
- Phoxinus, genus Phoxinus
- minnows
- minnow, Phoxinus phoxinus
- very small European freshwater fish common in gravelly streams
- Gobio, genus Gobio
- true gudgeons
- gudgeon, Gobio gobio
- small slender European freshwater fish often used as bait by anglers
- Carassius, genus Carassius
- goldfish
- goldfish, Carassius auratus
- small golden or orange-red freshwater fishes of Eurasia used as pond or aquarium fishes
- silverfish
- a silvery variety of Carassius auratus
- crucian carp, Carassius carassius, Carassius vulgaris
- European carp closely resembling wild goldfish
- Electrophoridae, family Electrophoridae
- small family comprising the electric eels
- Electrophorus, genus Electrophorus
- type genus of the family_Electrophoridae; electric eels
- electric eel, Electrophorus electric
- eel-shaped freshwater fish of South America having electric organs in its body
- Catostomidae, family Catostomidae
- suckers; closely related to the family Cyprinidae
- catostomid
- a cypriniform fish of the family Catostomidae
- sucker
- mostly North American freshwater fishes with a thick-lipped mouth for feeding by suction; related to carps
- Catostomus, genus Catostomus
- type genus of the family Catostomidae
- Ictiobus, genus Ictiobus
- buffalo fishes
- buffalo fish, buffalofish
- any of several large suckers of the Mississippi valley
- black buffalo, Ictiobus niger
- fish of the lower Mississippi
- Hypentelium, genus Hypentelium
- a genus of fish in the family Catostomidae
- hog sucker, hog molly, Hypentelium nigricans
- widely distributed in warm clear shallow streams
- Maxostoma, genus Maxostoma
- a genus of fish in the family Catostomidae
- redhorse, redhorse sucker
- North American sucker with reddish fins
- Cyprinodontidae, family Cyprinodontidae
- large family of small soft-finned fishes; killifishes; flagfishes; swordtails; guppies
- cyprinodont
- any member of the family Cyprinodontidae
- killifish
- small mostly marine warm-water carp-like schooling fishes; used as bait or aquarium fishes or in mosquito control
- Fundulus, genus Fundulus
- killifish
- mummichog, Fundulus heteroclitus
- silver-and-black killifish of saltwater marshes along the United States Atlantic coast
- striped killifish, mayfish, Fundulus majalis
- black-barred fish of bays and coastal marshes of United States Atlantic and Gulf coasts
- genus Rivulus
- killifish
- rivulus
- found in small streams of tropical America; often kept in aquariums; usually hermaphroditic
- Jordanella, genus Jordanella
- flagfishes
- flagfish, American flagfish, Jordanella floridae
- flagfish with a dark-blue back and whitish sides with red stripes; found in swamps and streams of Florida
- Xyphophorus, genus Xyphophorus
- swordtails
- swordtail, helleri, topminnow, Xyphophorus helleri
- freshwater fish of Central America having a long swordlike tail; popular aquarium fish
- Lebistes, genus Lebistes
- guppies
- guppy, rainbow fish, Lebistes reticulatus
- small freshwater fish of South America and West Indies; often kept in aquariums
- Poeciliidae, family Poeciliidae
- topminnows
- topminnow, poeciliid fish, poeciliid, live-bearer
- small usually brightly-colored viviparous surface-feeding fishes of fresh or brackish warm waters; often used in mosquito control
- Gambusia, genus Gambusia
- mosquitofish
- mosquitofish, Gambusia affinis
- silvery topminnow with rows of black spots of tropical North America and West Indies; important in mosquito control
- Platypoecilus, genus Platypoecilus
- platys
- platy, Platypoecilus maculatus
- small stocky Mexican fish; popular aquarium fish
- Mollienesia, genus Mollienesia
- mollies
- mollie, molly
- popular aquarium fish
- Berycomorphi, order Berycomorphi
- an order of spiny-finned fish in the superorder Acanthopterygii
- Holocentridae, family Holocentridae
- squirrelfishes and soldierfishes
- Holocentrus, genus Holocentrus
- type genus of the family Holocentridae; squirrelfishes
- squirrelfish
- very small brightly colored (esp. red) nocturnal fishes of shallow waters of tropical reefs; they make sounds like a squirrel's bark
- reef squirrelfish, Holocentrus coruscus
- on reefs from Bermuda and Florida to northern South America
- deepwater squirrelfish, Holocentrus bullisi
- a squirrelfish found from South Carolina to Bermuda and Gulf of Mexico
- Holocentrus ascensionis
- bright red fish of West Indies and Bermuda
- soldierfish
- the larger squirrelfishes
- Anomalopidae, family Anomalopidae
- a family of fish including: flashlight fishes
- genus Anomalops
- type genus of the family Anomalopidae
- anomalops, flashlight fish
- fish having a luminous organ beneath eye; of warm waters of the western Pacific and Puerto Rico
- Krypterophaneron, genus Krypterophaneron
- a genus of fish in the family Anomalopidae
- Photoblepharon, genus Photoblepharon
- a genus of fish in the family Anomalopidae
- flashlight fish, Photoblepharon palpebratus
- fish of deep dark waters having a light organ below each eye
- Zeomorphi, order Zeomorphi
- dories
- Zeidae, family Zeidae
- a family of fish in the order Zeomorphi
- dory
- marine fishes widely distributed in mid-waters and deep slope waters
- Zeus, genus Zeus
- type genus of the family Zeidae
- John dory, Zeus faber
- European dory
- Caproidae, family Caproidae
- boarfishes
- Capros, genus Capros
- a genus of fish in the family Caproidae
- boarfish, Capros aper
- fish with a projecting snout
- Antigonia, genus Antigonia
- a genus of fish in the family Caproidae
- boarfish
- long-snouted fishes with large eyes
- Solenichthyes, order Solenichthyes
- bellows fishes; shrimpfishes; cornetfishes; pipefishes; small order of chiefly tropical marine fishes of varied and bizarre form all having a small mouth at the end of a drawn-out tubular snout
- Fistulariidae, family Fistulariidae
- cornetfishes
- Fistularia, genus Fistularia
- type genus of the family Fistulariidae
- cornetfish
- slender tropical fish with a long tubular snout and bony plates instead of scales
- Gasterosteidae, family Gasterosteidae
- sticklebacks
- stickleback, prickleback
- small (2-4 inches) pugnacious mostly scaleless spiny-backed fishes of northern fresh and littoral waters having elaborate courtship; subjects of much research
- Gasterosteus, genus gasterosteus
- type genus of the family Gasterosteidae
- three-spined stickleback, Gasterosteus aculeatus
- of rivers and coastal regions
- ten-spined stickleback, Gasterosteus pungitius
- confined to rivers
- Syngnathidae, family Syngnathidae
- pipefishes
- pipefish, needlefish
- fish with long tubular snout and slim body covered with bony plates
- Syngnathus, genus Syngnathus
- type genus of the family_Syngnathidae
- dwarf pipefish, Syngnathus hildebrandi
- small (4 inches) fish found off Florida gulf coast
- Cosmocampus, genus Cosmocampus
- a genus of fish in the family Syngnathidae
- deepwater pipefish, Cosmocampus profundus
- 8 inches; from eastern Florida to western Caribbean
- Hippocampus, genus Hippocampus
- seahorses
- seahorse, sea horse
- small fish with horselike heads bent sharply downward and curled tails; swim in upright position
- Macrorhamphosidae, family Macrorhamphosidae
- bellows fishes
- snipefish, bellows fish
- small bottom-dwelling fish of warm seas having a compressed body and a long snout with a toothless mouth
- Centriscidae, family Centriscidae
- shrimpfishes
- shrimpfish
- slender tropical shallow-water East Indian fish covered with transparent plates
- Aulostomidae, family Aulostomidae
- trumpetfishes
- Aulostomus, genus Aulostomus
- type genus of the Aulostomidae
- trumpetfish, Aulostomus maculatus
- tropical Atlantic fish with a long snout; swims snout down
- Agnatha, superclass Agnatha
- superclass of eel-shaped chordates lacking jaws and pelvic fins: lampreys; hagfishes; some extinct forms
- jawless vertebrate, jawless fish, agnathan
- eel-shaped vertebrate without jaws or paired appendages including the cyclostomes and some extinct forms
- Ostracodermi, order Ostracodermi
- extinct group of armored jawless vertebrates; taxonomy is not clear
- ostracoderm
- extinct fishlike jawless vertebrate having a heavily armored body; of the Paleozoic
- Heterostraci, suborder Heterostraci
- extinct group of armored jawless fishes or fishlike vertebrate; taxonomy is not clear
- heterostracan
- extinct jawless fish with the anterior part of the body covered with bony plates; of the Silurian and Devonian
- Osteostraci, suborder Osteostraci, Cephalaspida, suborder Cephalaspida
- extinct group of armored fishlike vertebrates; taxonomy is not clear
- osteostracan, cephalaspid
- extinct jawless fish of the Devonian with armored head
- Anaspida, order Anaspida
- extinct order of jawless vertebrates
- anaspid
- extinct small freshwater jawless fish usually having a heterocercal tail and an armored head; of the Silurian and Devonian
- Conodonta, order Conodonta, Conodontophorida, order Conodontophorida
- extinct order of primitive vertebrates; the precise taxonomy is not clear; in some classifications considered a separate phylum
- conodont
- small (2 in) extinct eellike fish with a finned tail and a notochord and having cone-shaped teeth containing cellular bone; late Cambrian to late Triassic; possible predecessor of the cyclostomes
- Cyclostomata, order Cyclostomata
- primitive jawless aquatic vertebrate: lampreys; hagfishes
- cyclostome
- primitive aquatic vertebrate
- Petromyzoniformes, suborder Petromyzoniformes, Hyperoartia, suborder Hyperoartia
- lampreys as distinguished from hagfishes
- Petromyzontidae, family Petromyzontidae
- lampreys
- lamprey, lamprey eel, lamper eel
- primitive eellike freshwater or anadromous cyclostome having round sucking mouth with a rasping tongue
- Petromyzon, genus Petromyzon
- typical lampreys
- sea lamprey, Petromyzon marinus
- large anadromous lamprey sometimes used as food; destructive of native fish fauna in the Great Lakes
- Myxiniformes, suborder Myxiniformes, Hyperotreta, suborder Hyperotreta, Myxinoidei, Myxinoidea, suborder Myxinoidei
- hagfishes as distinguished from lampreys
- Myxinidae, family Myxinidae
- slime-producing marine animals: hagfishes
- hagfish, hag, slime eels
- eellike cyclostome having a tongue with horny teeth in a round mouth surrounded by eight tentacles; feeds on dead or trapped fishes by boring into their bodies
- Myxine, genus Myxine
- type genus of the Myxinidae (typical hagfishes)
- Myxine glutinosa
- typical hagfish
- genus Eptatretus
- a genus of fossil fish of the family Myxinidae
- eptatretus
- a fossil hagfish of the genus Eptatretus
- Myxinikela, genus Myxinikela
- fossil hagfishes
- Myxinikela siroka
- fossil hagfish of the Pennsylvanian period (c. 300 million years ago) that resembled modern hagfishes
- Gnathostomata, superclass Gnathostomata
- comprising all vertebrates with upper and lower jaws
- gnathostome
- a vertebrate animal possessing true jaws
- Placodermi, class Placodermi
- extinct group of bony-plated fishes with primitive jaws
- placoderm
- fishlike vertebrate with bony plates on head and upper body; dominant in seas and rivers during the Devonian; considered the earliest vertebrate with jaws
- Chondrichthyes, class Chondrichthyes
- cartilaginous fishes
- cartilaginous fish, chondrichthian
- fishes in which the skeleton may be calcified but not ossified
- Holocephali, subclass Holocephali
- chimaeras and extinct forms
- holocephalan
- fish with high compressed head and a body tapering off into a long tail
- Chimaeridae, family Chimaeridae
- a family of Holocephali
- genus Chimaera
- type genus of the Chimaeridae
- chimaera
- smooth-skinned deep-sea fish with a tapering body and long threadlike tail
- rabbitfish, Chimaera monstrosa
- large European chimaera
- Elasmobranchii, subclass Elasmobranchii, Selachii, subclass Selachii
- sharks; rays; dogfishes; skates
- elasmobranch, selachian
- any of numerous fishes of the class Chondrichthyes characterized by a cartilaginous skeleton and placoid scales: sharks; rays; skates
- shark
- any of numerous elongate mostly marine carnivorous fishes with heterocercal caudal fins and tough skin covered with small toothlike scales
- Hexanchidae, family Hexanchidae
- primitive sharks
- Hexanchus, genus Hexanchus
- a genus of Hexanchidae
- cow shark, six-gilled shark, Hexanchus griseus
- large primitive shark widely distributed in warm seas
- Lamnidae, family Lamnidae
- oceanic sharks
- Isuridae, family Isuridae
- in some classifications another name for the family Lamnidae
- mackerel shark
- fierce pelagic and oceanic sharks
- Lamna, genus Lamna
- a genus of Lamnidae
- porbeagle, Lamna nasus
- voracious pointed-nose shark of northern Atlantic and Pacific
- Isurus, genus Isurus
- mako sharks
- mako, mako shark
- powerful mackerel shark of the Atlantic and Pacific
- shortfin mako, Isurus oxyrhincus
- very swift active bluish shark found worldwide in warm waters; important game fish
- longfin mako, Isurus paucus
- similar to shortfin mako but darker blue
- bonito shark, blue pointed, Isurus glaucus
- common blue-gray shark of southwest Pacific; sport and food fish
- Carcharodon, genus Carcharodon
- man-eating sharks
- great white shark, white shark, man-eater, man-eating shark, Carcharodon carcharias
- large aggressive shark widespread in warm seas; known to attack humans
- Cetorhinus, genus Cetorhinus
- comprising only the basking sharks; in some classifications considered the type genus of a separate family Cetorhinidae
- Cetorhinidae, family Cetorhinidae
- in some older classifications considered the family of the basking sharks
- basking shark, Cetorhinus maximus
- large harmless plankton-eating northern shark; often swims slowly or floats at the sea surface
- Alopiidae, family Alopiidae
- thresher sharks
- Alopius, genus Alopius
- type genus of the family Alopiidae; in some classifications considered a genus of the family Lamnidae
- thresher, thrasher, thresher shark, fox shark, Alopius vulpinus
- large pelagic shark of warm seas with a whiplike tail used to round up small fish on which to feed
- Orectolobidae, family Orectolobidae
- nurse sharks and carpet sharks
- Orectolobus, genus Orectolobus
- carpet sharks
- carpet shark, Orectolobus barbatus
- shark of the western Pacific with flattened body and mottled skin
- Ginglymostoma, genus Ginglymostoma
- nurse sharks
- nurse shark, Ginglymostoma cirratum
- small bottom-dwelling shark of warm shallow waters on both coasts of North and South America and from southeast Asia to Australia
- Carchariidae, family Carchariidae, Odontaspididae, family Odontaspididae
- sand sharks; in some classifications coextensive with family Carcharhinidae
- Carcharias, genus Carcharias, Odontaspis, genus Odontaspis
- type and sole genus of Carchariidae: sand sharks
- sand tiger, sand shark, Carcharias taurus, Odontaspis taurus
- shallow-water shark with sharp jagged teeth found on both sides of Atlantic; sometimes dangerous to swimmers
- Rhincodontidae, family Rhincodontidae
- small-toothed sharks comprising only one species
- Rhincodon, genus Rhincodon
- whale sharks
- whale shark, Rhincodon typus
- large spotted shark of warm surface waters worldwide; resembles a whale and feeds chiefly on plankton
- Scyliorhinidae, family Scyliorhinidae
- small bottom-dwelling sharks
- cat shark
- small bottom-dwelling sharks with catlike eyes; found along continental slopes
- Carcharhinidae, family Carcharhinidae
- largest family of living sharks; found worldwide esp. in tropical waters; dorsal fin lacks spines: requiem sharks including tiger sharks and soupfin sharks
- requiem shark
- any of numerous sharks from small relatively harmless bottom-dwellers to large dangerous oceanic and coastal species
- Carcharhinus, genus Carcharhinus
- type genus of the Carcharhinidae
- bull shark, cub shark, Carcharhinus leucas
- a most common shark in temperate and tropical coastal waters worldwide; heavy-bodied and dangerous
- sandbar shark, Carcharhinus plumbeus
- most common gray shark along coasts of middle Atlantic states; sluggish and occasionally caught by fishermen
- blacktip shark, sandbar shark, Carcharhinus limbatus
- widely distributed shallow-water shark with fins seemingly dipped in ink
- whitetip shark, oceanic whitetip shark, white-tipped shark, Carcharinus longimanus
- large deep-water shark with white-tipped dorsal fin; worldwide distribution; most dangerous shark
- dusky shark, Carcharhinus obscurus
- relatively slender blue-gray shark; nearly worldwide in tropical and temperate waters
- Negaprion, genus Negaprion
- lemon sharks
- lemon shark, Negaprion brevirostris
- common shallow-water schooling shark of the Atlantic from North Carolina to Brazil and off west Africa; dangerous
- Prionace, genus Prionace
- blue sharks
- blue shark, great blue shark, Prionace glauca
- slender cosmopolitan, pelagic shark; blue body shades to white belly; dangerous esp. during maritime disasters
- Galeocerdo, genus Galeocerdo
- tiger sharks
- tiger shark, Galeocerdo cuvieri
- large dangerous warm-water shark with striped or spotted body
- Galeorhinus, genus Galeorhinus
- a genus of Carcharhinidae
- soupfin shark, soupfin, Galeorhinus zyopterus
- Pacific shark valued for its fins (used by Chinese in soup) and liver (rich in vitamin A)
- dogfish
- any of several small sharks
- Triakidae, family Triakidae
- small smooth-skinned sharks lacking spines on dorsal fins
- Mustelus, genus Mustelus
- smooth dogfishes
- smooth dogfish
- small bottom-dwelling shark found along both Atlantic coasts
- smoothhound, smoothhound shark, Mustelus mustelus
- smooth dogfish of European coastal waters
- American smooth dogfish, Mustelus canis
- found along the Atlantic coast of the Americas
- Florida smoothhound, Mustelus norrisi
- found from the northern Gulf of Mexico to Brazil
- Triaenodon, genus Triaenodon
- a genus of Triakidae
- whitetip shark, reef whitetip shark, Triaenodon obseus
- smooth dogfish of Pacific and Indian oceans and Red Sea having white-tipped dorsal and caudal fins
- Squalidae, family Squalidae
- dogfishes having a spine in each dorsal fin
- spiny dogfish
- small bottom-dwelling dogfishes
- Squalus, genus Squalus
- spiny dogfishes
- Atlantic spiny dogfish, Squalus acanthias
- destructive dogfish of American and European Atlantic coastal waters; widely used in anatomy classes
- Pacific spiny dogfish, Squalus suckleyi
- dogfish of Pacific coast of North America
- Sphyrnidae, family Sphyrnidae
- hammerhead sharks; bonnethead sharks
- Sphyrna, genus Sphyrna
- type genus of the Sphyrnidae
- hammerhead, hammerhead shark
- medium-sized live-bearing shark with eyes at either end of a flattened hammer-shaped head; worldwide in warm waters; can be dangerous
- smooth hammerhead, Sphyrna zygaena
- fished for the hides and vitamin-rich liver
- smalleye hammerhead, Sphyrna tudes
- fished for the hide and vitamin-rich liver
- shovelhead, bonnethead, bonnet shark, Sphyrna tiburo
- small harmless hammerhead having a spade-shaped head; abundant in bays and estuaries
- Squatinidae, family Squatinidae
- bottom-dwelling ray-like sharks
- Squatina, genus Squatina
- type genus of the Squatinidae: angel sharks
- angel shark, angelfish, Squatina squatina, monkfish
- sharks with broad flat bodies and winglike pectoral fins but that swim the way sharks do
- ray
- cartilaginous fishes having horizontally flattened bodies and enlarged winglike pectoral fins with gills on the underside; most swim by moving the pectoral fins
- Torpediniformes, order Torpediniformes
- rays with torpedo-shaped bodies
- Torpedinidae, family Torpedinidae
- electric rays
- electric ray, crampfish, numbfish, torpedo
- any sluggish bottom-dwelling ray of the order Torpediniformes having a rounded body and electric organs on each side of the head capable of emitting strong electric discharges
- Rajiformes, order Rajiformes, Batoidei, order Batoidei
- fish with dorsoventrally flattened bodies; includes: rays; skates; guitarfishes; sawfishes
- Pristidae, family Pristidae
- large primitive rays with elongated snouts
- sawfish
- primitive ray with sharp teeth on each edge of a long flattened snout
- Pristis, genus Pristis
- type genus of the Pristidae
- smalltooth sawfish, Pristis pectinatus
- commonly found in tropical bays and estuaries; not aggressive
- Rhinobatidae, family Rhinobatidae
- primitive rays with guitar-shaped bodies
- guitarfish
- primitive tropical bottom-dwelling ray with a guitar-shaped body
- Dasyatidae, family Dasyatidae
- sting rays
- stingray
- large venomous ray with large barbed spines near the base of a thin whiplike tail capable of inflicting severe wounds
- Dasyatis, genus Dasyatis
- type genus of the Dasyatidae
- roughtail stingray, Dasyatis centroura
- one of the largest stingrays; found from Cape Cod to Cape Hatteras
- Gymnura, genus Gymnura
- butterfly rays
- butterfly ray
- short-tailed broad-finned stingray
- Myliobatidae, family Myliobatidae
- eagle rays
- eagle ray
- powerful free-swimming tropical ray noted for `soaring' by flapping winglike fins; usually harmless but has venomous tissue near base of the tail as in stingrays
- Aetobatus, genus Aetobatus
- a genus of Myliobatidae
- spotted eagle ray, spotted ray, Aetobatus narinari
- ray with back covered with white or yellow spots; widely distributed in warm seas
- Rhinoptera, genus Rhinoptera
- a genus of Myliobatidae
- cownose ray, cow-nosed ray, Rhinoptera bonasus
- large ray found along eastern coast of North America
- Mobulidae, family Mobulidae
- large rays lacking venomous spines: mantas
- manta, manta ray, devilfish
- extremely large pelagic tropical ray that feeds on plankton and small fishes; usually harmless but its size make it dangerous if harpooned
- genus Manta
- a genus of Mobulidae
- Atlantic manta, Manta birostris
- largest manta (to 22 feet across wings); found worldwide but common in Gulf of Mexico and along southern coasts of United States; primarily oceanic
- Mobula, genus Mobula
- type genus of the Mobulidae
- devil ray, Mobula hypostoma
- small manta (to 4 feet) that travels in schools
- Rajidae, family Rajidae
- bottom-dwelling tropical rays: skates
- skate
- large edible rays having a long snout and thick tail with pectoral fins continuous with the head; swim by undulating the edges of the pectoral fins
- Raja, genus Raja
- type genus of the family Rajidae
- gray skate, Raja batis
- common European skate used as food
- little skate, Raja erinacea
- most plentiful skate in North American inshore waters in summer; to 2l inches
- thorny skate, Raja radiata
- cold-water bottom fish with spines on the back; to 40 inches
- barndoor skate, Raja laevis
- one of the largest skates (to 5 feet); an active skate easy to hook
- game fish
- any fish providing sport for the angler
- food fish
- any fish used for food by human beings
- panfish
- any of numerous small food fishes taken with hook and line
- rough fish
- any fish useless for food or sport or even as bait
- groundfish, bottom fish
- fish that live on the sea bottom especially commercially important gadoid fishes like cod and haddock or flatfish like flounder
- young fish
- a fish that is young
- parr
- the young of various fishes
- mouthbreeder
- any of various fishes that carry their eggs and their young in their mouths
- Osteichthyes, class Osteichthyes
- a class of fish having a skeleton composed of bone in addition to cartilage
- bony fish
- any fish of the class Osteichthyes
- Crossopterygii, subclass Crossopterygii
- fishes having paired fins resembling limbs and regarded as ancestral to amphibians
- crossopterygian, lobefin, lobe-finned fish
- any fish of the order Crossopterygii; most known only in fossil form
- Latimeridae, family Latimeridae
- extinct except for the coelacanth
- Latimeria, genus Latimeria
- type genus of the Latimeridae: coelacanth
- coelacanth, Latimeria chalumnae
- fish thought to have been extinct since the Cretaceous Period but found in 1938 off the coast of Africa
- Dipnoi, subclass Dipnoi
- bony fishes of the southern hemisphere that breathe by a modified air bladder as well as gills; sometimes classified as an order of Crossopterygii
- lungfish
- air-breathing fish having an elongated body and fleshy paired fins; certain species construct mucus-lined mud coverings in which to survive drought
- Ceratodontidae, family Ceratodontidae
- lungfishes having hornlike ridges on the teeth
- genus Ceratodus
- type genus of the Ceratodontidae: extinct genus of lungfishes
- ceratodus
- extinct lungfish
- Neoceratodus, genus Neoceratodus
- extant Australian lungfishes
- barramunda, Neoceratodus forsteri
- large edible Australian lungfish having paddle-shaped fins
- Siluriformes, order Siluriformes
- an order of fish belonging to the superorder Malacopterygii including catfishes
- catfish, siluriform fish
- any of numerous mostly freshwater bottom-living fishes of Eurasia and North America with barbels like whiskers around the mouth
- Siluridae, family Siluridae
- Old World catfishes
- silurid, silurid fish
- Old World freshwater catfishes having naked skin and a long anal fin more or less merged with the eellike caudal fin
- Silurus, genus Silurus
- type genus of the Siluridae: catfishes
- European catfish, sheatfish, Silurus glanis
- large elongated catfish of central and eastern Europe
- Malopterurus, genus Malopterurus
- electric catfish
- electric catfish, Malopterurus electricus
- freshwater catfish of the Nile and tropical central Africa having an electric organ
- Ameiuridae, family Ameiuridae
- North American catfishes
- Ameiurus, genus Ameiurus
- type genus of the Ameiuridae: bullhead catfishes
- bullhead
- any of several common freshwater catfishes of the United States
- horned pout, hornpout, pout, Ameiurus Melas
- catfish common in eastern United States
- brown bullhead
- freshwater catfish of eastern United States
- Ictalurus, genus Ictalurus
- channel catfishes
- channel catfish, channel cat, Ictalurus punctatus
- freshwater food fish common throughout central United States
- blue catfish, blue cat, blue channel catfish, blue channel cat
- a large catfish of the Mississippi valley
- Pylodictus, genus Pylodictus
- flathead catfishes
- flathead catfish, mudcat, goujon, shovelnose catfish, spoonbill catfish, Pylodictus olivaris
- large catfish of central United States having a flattened head and projecting jaw
- Laricariidae, family Laricariidae
- armored catfish
- armored catfish
- South American catfish having the body covered with bony plates
- Ariidae, family Ariidae
- sea_catfishes
- sea catfish
- any of numerous marine fishes most of which are mouthbreeders; not used for food
- Arius, genus Arius
- type genus of the Ariidae: sea catfishes
- crucifix fish
- catfish of the Caribbean area
- Gadiformes, order Gadiformes
- cods, haddocks, grenadiers; in some classifications considered equivalent to the order Anacanthini
- Anacanthini, order Anacanthini
- at least partially equivalent to the order Gadiformes in some classifications
- gadoid, gadoid fish
- a soft-finned fish of the family Gadidae
- Gadidae, family Gadidae
- large family of important mostly marine food fishes
- Gadus, genus Gadus
- type genus of the Gadidae: the typical codfishes
- cod, codfish
- major food fish of arctic and cold-temperate waters
- codling
- young codfish
- Atlantic cod, Gadus morhua
- one of the world's most important commercial fishes
- Pacific cod, Alaska cod, Gadus macrocephalus
- closely related to Atlantic cod
- Merlangus, genus Merlangus
- whitings
- whiting, Merlangus merlangus, Gadus merlangus
- a food fish of European Atlantic waters resembling the cod; sometimes placed in genus Gadus
- Lota, genus Lota
- burbot
- burbot, eelpout, ling, cusk, Lota lota
- elongate freshwater cod of northern Europe and Asia and North America having barbels around its mouth
- scrod, schrod
- young Atlantic cod or haddock esp. one split and boned for cooking
- Melanogrammus, genus Melanogrammus
- haddock
- haddock, Melanogrammus aeglefinus
- important food fish on both sides of the Atlantic; related to cod but usually smaller
- Pollachius, genus Pollachius
- pollack
- pollack, pollock, Pollachius pollachius
- important food and game fish of northern seas especially North Atlantic; related to cod
- Merluccius, genus Merluccius
- hakes
- hake
- any of several marine food fishes related to cod
- silver hake, Merluccius bilinearis, whiting
- found off Atlantic coast of North America
- Urophycis, genus Urophycis
- hakes
- ling
- American hakes
- Molva, genus Molva
- ling
- ling, Molva molva
- elongated marine food fish of Greenland and northern Europe; often salted and dried
- Brosmius, genus Browmius
- cusk
- cusk, torsk, Brosme brosme
- large edible marine fish of northern coastal waters; related to cod
- Macrouridae, family Macrouridae, Macruridae, family Macruridae
- grenadiers
- grenadier, rattail, rattail fish
- deep-sea fish with a large head and body and long tapering tail
- Anguilliformes, order Anguilliformes, order Apodes
- elongate fishes with pelvic fins and girdle absent or reduced
- eel
- voracious snakelike marine or freshwater fishes with smooth slimy usually scaleless skin and having a continuous vertical fin but no ventral fins
- elver
- young eel
- Anguillidae, family Anguillidae
- eels that live in fresh water as adults but return to the sea to spawn
- Anguilla, genus Anguilla
- type genus of the Anguillidae: eels
- common eel, freshwater eel
- eels that live in fresh water as adults but return to sea to spawn; found in Europe and America; marketed both fresh and smoked
- tuna, Anguilla sucklandii
- New Zealand eel
- Muraenidae, family Muraenidae
- marine eels
- moray, moray eel
- family of brightly colored voracious eels of warm coastal waters; generally nonaggressive to humans but larger species are dangerous if provoked
- Congridae, family Congridae
- marine eels
- conger, conger eel
- large somber-colored scaleless marine eel found in temperate and tropical coastal waters; some used for food
- Teleostei, subclass Teleostei
- large diverse group of bony fishes; includes most living species
- teleost fish, teleost, teleostan
- a bony fish of the subclass Teleostei
- Isospondyli, order Isospondyli
- most primitive teleost fishes; all are soft-finned: salmon; trout; herring; shad; sardines; anchovies; whitefish; smelts; tarpon
- Gonorhynchidae, family Gonorhynchidae
- coextensive with the genus Gonorhynchus
- Gonorhynchus, genus Gonorhynchus
- slender cylindrical marine fishes lacking air bladders and teeth
- beaked salmon, sandfish, Gonorhynchus gonorhynchus
- fish of sandy areas of western Pacific and Indian oceans having an angular snout for burrowing into sand
- Clupeidae, family Clupeidae
- herrings; shad; sardines; etc.
- clupeid fish, clupeid
- any of numerous soft-finned schooling food fishes of shallow waters of northern seas
- whitebait
- the edible young of esp. herrings and sprats and smelts
- brit, britt
- the young of a herring or sprat or similar fish
- Alosa, genus Alosa
- shad
- shad
- herring-like food fishes that migrate from the sea to freshwater to spawn
- common American shad, Alosa sapidissima
- shad of Atlantic coast of North America; naturalized to Pacific coast
- river shad, Alosa chrysocloris
- shad that spawns in streams of the Mississippi drainage; very similar to Alosa_sapidissima
- allice shad, allis shad, allice, allis, Alosa alosa
- European shad
- alewife, Alosa pseudoharengus, Pomolobus pseudoharengus
- shad-like food fish that runs rivers to spawn; often salted or smoked; sometimes placed in genus Pomolobus
- Pomolobus, genus Pomolobus
- genus to which the alewife is sometimes assigned
- Brevoortia, genus Brevoortia
- menhaden
- menhaden, Brevoortia tyrannis
- shad-like North American marine fishes used for fish meal and oil and fertilizer
- Clupea, genus Clupea
- type genus of the Clupeidae: typical herrings
- herring, Clupea harangus
- commercially important food fish of northern waters of both Atlantic and Pacific
- Atlantic herring, Clupea harengus harengus
- important food fish; found in enormous shoals in North Atlantic
- Pacific herring, Clupea harengus pallasii
- important food fish of the north Pacific
- sardine
- any of various small edible herring or related food fishes frequently canned
- sild
- any of various young herrings (other than brislings) canned as sardines in Norway
- brisling, sprat, Clupea sprattus
- small herring processed like a sardine
- Sardina, genus Sardina, genus Sardinia
- pilchards
- pilchard, sardine, Sardina pilchardus
- small fishes found in great schools along coasts of Europe; smaller and rounder than herring
- Sardinops, genus Sardinops
- pilchards
- Pacific sardine, Sardinops caerulea
- small pilchards common off the pacific coast of North America
- Engraulidae, family Engraulidae
- anchovies
- anchovy
- small herring-like plankton-feeding fishes often canned whole or as paste; abundant in tropical waters worldwide
- Engraulis, genus Engraulis
- type genus of the family Engraulidae
- mediterranean anchovy, Engraulis encrasicholus
- esteemed for its flavor; usually preserved or used for sauces and relishes
- Salmonidae, family Salmonidae
- salmon and trout
- salmonid
- soft-finned fishes of cold and temperate waters
- salmon
- any of various large food and game fishes of northern waters; usually migrate from salt to fresh water to spawn
- parr
- a young salmon up to 2 years old
- blackfish
- female salmon that has recently spawned
- redfish
- male salmon that has recently spawned
- Salmo, genus Salmo
- type genus of the Salmonidae: salmon and trout
- Atlantic salmon, Salmo salar
- found in northern coastal Atlantic waters or tributaries; adults do not die after spawning
- landlocked salmon, lake salmon
- Atlantic salmon confined to lakes of New England and southeastern Canada
- Onchorynchus, genus Onchorynchus
- sockeye salmon; chinook salmon; coho salmon
- sockeye, sockeye salmon, red salmon, blueback salmon, Onchorynchus nerka
- small red-fleshed salmon of rivers and tributaries of the north Pacific valued as food; adults die after spawning
- chinook, chinook salmon, king salmon, quinnat salmon, Onchorynchus tshawtscha
- large Pacific salmon valued as food; adults die after spawning
- coho, cohoe, coho salmon, blue jack, silver salmon, Onchorynchus kisutch
- small salmon of north Pacific coasts and the Great Lakes
- trout
- any of various game and food fishes of cool fresh waters mostly smaller than typical salmons
- brown trout, salmon trout, Salmo trutta
- speckled trout of European rivers; introduced in North America
- rainbow trout, Salmo gairdneri
- found in Pacific coastal waters and streams from lower California to Alaska
- sea trout
- silvery marine variety of brown trout that migrates to fresh water to spawn
- Salvelinus, genus Salvelinus
- brook trout
- lake trout, salmon trout, Salvelinus namaycush
- large fork-tailed trout of lakes of Canada and the northern United States
- brook trout, speckled trout, Salvelinus fontinalis
- North American freshwater trout; introduced in Europe
- char
- any of several small-scaled trout
- Arctic char, Salvelinus alpinus
- small trout of northern waters; landlocked populations in Quebec and northern New England
- Coregonidae, family Coregonidae
- soft-finned fishes comprising the freshwater whitefishes; formerly included in the family Salmonidae
- whitefish
- silvery herring-like freshwater food fish of cold lakes of the northern hemisphere
- Coregonus, genus Coregonus
- type genus of the Coregonidae: whitefishes
- lake whitefish, Coregonus clupeaformis
- found in Great Lakes and north to Alaska
- cisco, lake herring, Coregonus artedi
- important food fish of cold deep lakes of North America
- Prosopium, genus Prosopium
- whitefishes
- round whitefish, Menominee whitefish, Prosopium cylindraceum
- bronze-backed whitefish of northern North America and Siberia
- Rocky Mountain whitefish, Prosopium williamsonii
- whitefish of the western United States and Canada
- Osmeridae, family Osmeridae
- smelts
- smelt
- small trout-like silvery marine or freshwater food fishes of cold northern waters
- Osmerus, genus Osmerus
- type genus of the Osmeridae
- rainbow smelt, Osmerus mordax
- important marine and landlocked food fish of eastern North America and Alaska
- sparling, European smelt, Osmerus eperlanus
- the common smelt of Europe
- Mallotus, genus Mallotus
- capelins
- capelin, capelan, caplin
- very small northern fish; forage for sea birds and marine mammals and other fishes
- Elopidae, family Elopidae
- tarpons and ladyfishes
- genus Tarpon
- tarpons
- tarpon, Tarpon atlanticus
- large silvery game fish of warm Atlantic coastal waters especially off Florida
- Elops, genus Elops
- type genus of the Elopidae: tenpounder
- ladyfish, tenpounder, Elops saurus
- game fish resembling the tarpon but smaller
- Albulidae, family Albulidae
- bonefish
- Albula, genus Albula
- type and sole genus of the family Albulidae
- bonefish, Albula vulpes
- slender silvery marine fish found in tropical mud flats and mangrove lagoons
- Argentinidae, family Argentinidae
- small marine soft-finned fishes with long silvery bodies; related to salmons and trouts
- Argentina, genus Argentina
- type genus of the Argentinidae: argentines
- argentine
- any of various small silver-scaled salmon-like marine fishes
- Myctophidae, family Myctophidae
- deep-sea fishes comprising the lantern fishes
- lanternfish
- small fish having rows of luminous organs along each side; some surface at night
- Synodontidae, family Synodontidae
- soft-finned bottom-dwelling fishes
- lizardfish, snakefish
- tropical fishes with large mouths in lizard-like heads; found worldwide
- Chlorophthalmidae, family Chlorophthalmidae
- small family of soft-finned bottom-livers with large eyes; relatives of lizardfishes
- greeneye
- bottom-livers having large eyes with metallic green luster
- Alepisaurus, genus Alepisaurus
- slender scaleless predaceous tropical deep-sea fishes
- lancetfish, lancet fish, wolffish
- large elongate scaleless oceanic fishes with sharp teeth and a long sail-like dorsal fin
- handsaw fish
- a soft-finned fish of the genus Alepisaurus
- Lampridae, family Lampridae
- opahs
- Lampris, genus Lampris
- type genus of the Lampridae
- opah, moonfish, Lampris regius
- large elliptical brightly colored deep-sea fish of Atlantic and Pacific and Mediterranean
- New World opah, Lampris guttatus
- from Nova Scotia to West Indies and Gulf of Mexico
- Trachipteridae, family Trachipteridae
- ribbonfishes
- ribbonfish
- marine fish having a long compressed ribbon-like body
- Trachipterus, genus Trachipterus
- type genus of the Trachipteridae
- dealfish, Trachipterus arcticus
- deep-sea ribbonfish
- Regalecidae, family Regalecidae
- ribbonfishes
- Reglaecus, genus Regalecus
- type genus of the Regalecidae
- oarfish, king of the herring, ribbonfish, Regalecus glesne
- thin deep-water tropical fish 20 to 30 feet long having a red dorsal fin
- Pediculati, order Pediculati
- anglers and batfishes; spiny-finned marine fishes having pectoral fins at the ends of armlike processes and a long movable spine on the dorsal fin to lure prey to the large mouth
- Ogcocephalidae, family Ogcocephalidae
- batfishes: sluggish bottom-dwelling spiny fishes
- batfish
- bottom-dweller of warm western Atlantic coastal waters having a flattened scaleless body that crawls about on fleshy pectoral and pelvic fins
- Lophiidae, family Lophiidae
- large-headed marine fishes comprising the anglers
- Lophius, genus Lophius
- type genus of family Lophiidae
- goosefish, angler, anglerfish, angler fish, monkfish, lotte, allmouth, Lophius Americanus
- fishes having large mouths with a wormlike filament attached for luring prey
- Batrachoididae, family Batrachoididae
- toadfishes; related to anglers and batfishes
- toadfish, Opsanus tau
- bottom-dwelling fish having scaleless slimy skin and a broad thick head with a wide mouth
- oyster fish, oysterfish
- a variety of toadfish
- Antennariidae, family Antennariidae
- frogfishes; tropical spiny-finned marine fishes having large nearly vertical mouths; related to toadfishes and anglers
- frogfish
- fish having a frog-like mouth with a lure on the snout
- sargassum fish
- small fantastically formed and colored fishes found among masses of sargassum
- Synentognathi, order Synentognathi
- order of fishes having spineless fins; needlefishes; sauries; flying fishes; halfbeaks
- Belonidae, family Belonidae
- ferocious fishes of warm regions resembling but unrelated to the freshwater gars
- needlefish, gar, billfish
- elongate European surface-dwelling predacious fishes with long toothed jaws; abundant in coastal waters
- timucu
- found in warm waters of western Atlantic
- Exocoetidae, family Exocoetidae
- flying fishes; closely related to the halfbeaks
- flying fish
- tropical marine fishes having enlarged winglike fins used for brief gliding flight
- monoplane flying fish, two-wing flying fish
- having only pectoral fins enlarged
- biplane flying fish, four-wing flying fish
- having both pectoral and pelvic fins enlarged
- Hemiramphidae, family Hemiramphidae
- halfbeaks; marine and freshwater fishes closely related to the flying fishes but not able to glide
- halfbeak
- tropical and subtropical marine and freshwater fishes having an elongated body and long protruding lower jaw
- Scomberesocidae, family Scomberesocidae, Scombresocidae, family Scombresocidae
- only sauries
- Scomberesox, genus Scomberesox, Scombresox, genus Scombresox
- a genus of Scomberesocidae
- saury, billfish, Scomberesox saurus
- slender long-beaked fish of temperate Atlantic waters
- Acanthopterygii, superorder Acanthopterygii
- teleost fishes having fins with sharp bony rays
- spiny-finned fish, acanthopterygian
- a teleost fish with fins that are supported by sharp inflexible rays
- Ophiodontidae, family Ophiodontidae
- fishes closely related to greenlings
- Ophiodon, genus Ophiodon
- a genus of Ophiodontidae
- lingcod, Ophiodon elongatus
- food fish of Northern Pacific waters related to greenlings
- Perciformes, order Perciformes, Percomorphi, order Percomorphi
- one of the largest natural groups of fishes of both marine and fresh water: true perches; basses; tuna
- Percoidea, suborder Percoidea
- in some classifications nearly or exactly equivalent to the Perciformes which are considered a suborder
- percoid fish, percoid, percoidean
- any of numerous spiny-finned fishes of the order Perciformes
- perch
- any of numerous spiny-finned fishes of various families of the order Perciformes
- Percidae, family Percidae
- active freshwater fishes; true perches and pike perches
- perch
- spiny-finned freshwater food and game fishes
- Perca, genus Perca
- type genus of the Percidae
- yellow perch, Perca flavescens
- North American perch
- European perch, Perca fluviatilis
- a perch native to Europe
- Stizostedion, genus Stizostedion
- pikeperches
- pikeperch, pike perch
- any of several pike-like fishes of the perch family
- walleye, walleyed pike, jack salmon, Stizostedion vitreum
- pike-like freshwater perches
- blue pike, blue pickerel, blue pikeperch, blue walleye, Strizostedion vitreum glaucum
- variety inhabiting the Great Lakes
- Percina, genus Percina
- a genus of Percidae
- snail darter, Percina tanasi
- 3-inch snail-eating perch of the Tennessee River
- Trichodontidae, family Trichodontidae
- two species of elongate compressed scaleless large-eyed fishes that live in sand or mud
- sandfish
- either of two small silvery scaleless fishes of the north Pacific that burrow into sand
- Ophidiidae, family Ophidiidae
- eel-like marine fishes
- cusk-eel
- elongate compressed somewhat eel-shaped fishes
- Brotulidae, family Brotulidae
- chiefly deep-sea fishes related to the Ophidiidae
- brotula
- deep-sea fishes
- Carapidae, family Carapidae
- pearlfishes: related to the Brotulidae
- pearlfish
- found living within the alimentary canals of e.g. sea cucumbers or between the shells of pearl oysters in or near shallow seagrass beds
- Centropomidae, family Centropomidae
- a family of fish or the order Perciformes including robolos
- robolo
- a kind of percoid fish
- Centropomus, genus Centropomus
- type genus of the Centropomidae: snooks
- snook
- large tropical American food and game fishes of coastal and brackish waters; resemble pike
- Esocidae, family Esocidae
- pikes; pickerels; muskellunges
- Esox, genus Esox
- type and only genus of the family Esocidae
- pike
- any of several elongate long-snouted freshwater game and food fishes widely distributed in cooler parts of the northern hemisphere
- northern pike, Esox lucius
- voracious pisciverous pike of waters of northern hemisphere
- muskellunge, Esox masquinongy
- large (60 to 80 pounds) sport fish of North America
- pickerel
- any of several North American species of small pike
- chain pickerel, chain pike, Esox niger
- common in quiet waters of eastern United States
- redfin pickerel, barred pickerel, Esox americanus
- small but gamy pickerel of Atlantic coastal states
- Centrarchidae, family Centrarchidae
- sunfish family
- sunfish, centrarchid
- small carnivorous freshwater percoid fishes of North America usually having a laterally compressed body and metallic luster: crappies; black bass; bluegills; pumpkinseed
- Pomoxis, genus Pomoxis
- crappies
- crappie
- small sunfishes of central United States rivers
- black crappie, Pomoxis nigromaculatus
- a crappie that is black
- white crappie, Pomoxis annularis
- a crappie that is white
- freshwater bream, bream
- any of various usually edible freshwater percoid fishes having compressed bodies and shiny scales; especially (but not exclusively) of the genus Lepomis
- Lepomis, genus Lepomis
- bream
- pumpkinseed, Lepomis gibbosus
- small brilliantly colored North American sunfish
- bluegill, Lepomis macrochirus
- important edible sunfish of eastern and central United States
- spotted sunfish, stumpknocker, Lepomis punctatus
- inhabits streams from S Carolina to Florida; esteemed panfish
- Ambloplites, genus Ambloplites
- a genus of Centrarchidae
- freshwater bass
- North American food and game fish
- rock bass, rock sunfish, Ambloplites rupestris
- game and food fish of upper Mississippi and Great Lakes
- Micropterus, genus Micropterus
- American freshwater black basses
- black bass
- widely distributed and highly prized American freshwater game fishes (sunfish family)
- Kentucky black bass, spotted black bass, Micropterus pseudoplites
- a variety of black bass
- smallmouth, smallmouth bass, smallmouthed bass, smallmouth black bass, smallmouthed black bass, Micropterus dolomieu
- a variety of black bass; the angle of the jaw falls below the eye
- largemouth, largemouth bass, largemouthed bass, largemouth black bass, largemouthed black bass, Micropterus salmoides
- a large black bass; the angle of the jaw falls behind the eye
- bass
- nontechnical name for any of numerous edible marine and freshwater spiny-finned fishes
- Serranidae, family Serranidae
- marine fishes: sea basses; sea perches; groupers; jewfish
- serranid fish, serranid
- marine food sport fishes mainly of warm coastal waters
- Morone, genus Morone
- carnivorous fresh and salt water fishes
- white perch, silver perch, Morone americana
- small silvery food and game fish of eastern United States streams
- yellow bass, Morone interrupta
- North American freshwater bass resembling the larger marine striped bass
- sea bass
- any of various food and sport fishes of the United States Atlantic coast having an elongated body and long spiny dorsal fin
- Synagrops, genus Synagrops
- a genus of Serranidae
- blackmouth bass, Synagrops bellus
- small marine fish with black mouth and gill cavity
- Centropristis, genus Centropristis
- sea basses
- rock sea bass, rock bass, Centropristis philadelphica
- a kind of sea bass
- black sea bass, black bass, Centropistes striata
- bluish black-striped sea bass of the Atlantic coast of the United States
- Roccus, genus Roccus
- a genus of Serranidae
- striped bass, striper, Roccus saxatilis, rockfish
- marine food and game fish with dark longitudinal stripes; migrates upriver to spawn; sometimes placed in the genus Morone (Morone saxatilis)
- Polyprion, genus Polyprion
- wreckfish
- stone bass, wreckfish, Polyprion americanus
- brown fish of the Atlantic and Mediterranean found around rocks and shipwrecks
- Serranus, genus Serranus
- type genus of the Serranidae: mostly small Pacific sea basses
- belted sandfish, Serranus subligarius
- found in warm shallow waters of western Atlantic
- grouper
- usually solitary bottom sea basses of warm seas
- Epinephelus, genus Epinephelus
- genus of groupers or sea bass
- coney, Epinephelus fulvus
- black-spotted usually dusky-colored fish with reddish fins
- hind
- any of several mostly spotted fishes that resemble groupers
- rock hind, Epinephelus adscensionis
- found around rocky coasts or on reefs
- Paranthias, genus Paranthias
- a genus of Serranidae
- creole-fish, Paranthias furcifer
- deep-sea fish of tropical Atlantic
- Mycteroperca, genus Mycteroperca
- groupers
- jewfish, Mycteroperca bonaci
- large dark grouper with a thick head and rough scales
- Rypticus, genus Rypticus
- a genus of fish of the family Serranidae, including soapfishes (sometimes placed in the family Grammistidae)
- soapfish
- fishes with slimy mucus-covered skin; found in warm American Atlantic coastal waters
- Embiotocidae, family Embiotocidae
- viviparous percoid fishes comprising the surf fishes
- surfperch, surffish, surf fish
- small to medium-sized shallow-water fishes of the North American Pacific coast
- Hipsurus, genus Hipsurus
- a genus of Embiotocidae
- rainbow seaperch, rainbow perch, Hipsurus caryi
- Pacific coast fish
- Priacanthidae, family Priacanthidae
- small carnivorous percoid fishes found worldwide in tropical seas
- Priacanthus, genus Priacanthus
- type genus of the Priacanthidae
- bigeye
- red fishes of American coastal tropical waters having very large eyes and rough scales
- catalufa, Priacanthus arenatus
- brightly colored carnivorous fish of western Atlantic and West Indies waters
- Apogonidae, family Apogonidae
- bright-colored marine fishes that incubate eggs in the mouth
- cardinalfish
- small red fishes of coral reefs and inshore tropical waters
- Apogon, genus Apogon
- type genus of the Apogonidae
- flamefish, Apogon maculatus
- found in tropical Atlantic coastal waters
- Astropogon, genus Astropogon
- a genus of fish of the family Apogonidae
- conchfish, Astropogon stellatus
- found in West Indies; lives in mantle cavity of a living conch
- Malacanthidae, family Malacanthidae
- short-headed marine fishes; often brightly colored
- Lopholatilus, genus Lopholatilus
- large brightly colored food fish of deep Atlantic waters
- tilefish, Lopholatilus chamaeleonticeps
- yellow-spotted violet food fish of warm deep waters
- Pomatomidae, family Pomatomidae
- food and game fishes related to pompanos
- Pomatomus, genus Pomatomus
- type genus of the Pomatomidae
- bluefish, Pomatomus saltatrix
- bluish warm-water marine food and game fish that follow schools of small fishes into shallow waters
- Rachycentridae, family Rachycentridae
- family of pelagic fishes containing solely the cobia
- Rachycentron, genus Rachycentron
- genus and family are coextensive and comprise only the cobia
- cobia, Rachycentron canadum, sergeant fish
- large dark-striped tropical food and game fish related to remoras; found worldwide in coastal to open waters
- Discocephali, order Discocephali
- small order of fishes comprising the remoras
- Echeneididae, family Echeneididae, family Echeneidae
- fishes having a sucking disk on the head for clinging to other fishes and to ships
- remora, suckerfish, sucking fish
- marine fishes with a flattened elongated body and a sucking disk on the head for attaching to large fish or moving objects
- Echeneis, genus Echeneis
- type genus of the Echeneididae: typical remoras
- sharksucker, Echeneis naucrates
- remoras found attached to sharks
- Remilegia, genus Remilegia
- a genus of Echeneididae
- whalesucker, Remilegia australis
- large blue Pacific remora that attaches to whales and dolphins
- Carangidae, family Carangidae
- large family of narrow-bodied marine food fishes with widely forked tails; chiefly of warm seas
- carangid fish, carangid
- a percoid fish of the family Carangidae
- Caranx, genus Caranx
- type genus of the Carangidae
- jack
- any of several fast-swimming predacious fishes of tropical to warm-temperate seas
- crevalle jack, jack crevalle, Caranx hippos
- fish of western Atlantic and Gulf of Mexico
- yellow jack, Caranx bartholomaei
- fish of western Atlantic and Gulf of Mexico
- runner, blue runner, Caranx crysos
- fish of western Atlantic: Cape Cod to Brazil
- Elagatis, genus Elagatis
- a genus of Carangidae
- rainbow runner, Elagatis bipinnulata
- streamlined cigar-shaped jack; good game fish
- Oligoplites, genus Oligoplites
- leatherjackets
- leatherjacket, leatherjack
- any of several New World tropical fishes having tiny embedded scales
- Alectis, genus Alectis
- a genus of Carangidae
- threadfish, Alectis ciliaris
- fish having greatly elongated front rays on dorsal and anal fins
- Selene, genus Selene
- a genus of Carangidae
- moonfish, Atlantic moonfish, horsefish, horsehead, dollarfish, Selene setapinnis
- any of several silvery marine fishes with very flat bodies
- lookdown, lookdown fish, Selene vomer
- similar to moonfish but with eyes high on the truncated forehead
- Seriola, genus Seriola
- a genus of Carangidae
- amberjack, amberfish
- any of several amber to coppery fork-tailed warm-water carangid fishes
- yellowtail, Seriola dorsalis
- game fish of S California and Mexico having a yellow tail fin
- rudderfish, banded rudderfish, Seriola zonata
- fish having the habit of following ships; found in North and South American coastal waters
- kingfish, Seriola grandis
- large game fish of Australia and New Zealand
- Trachinotus, genus Trachinotus
- a genus of Carangidae
- pompano
- any of several deep-bodied food fishes of western Atlantic and Gulf of Mexico
- Florida pompano, Trachinotus carolinus
- found in coastal waters New England to Brazil except clear waters of West Indies
- permit, Trachinotus falcatus
- large game fish; found in waters of the West Indies
- Naucrates, genus Naucrates
- a genus of Carangidae
- pilotfish, Naucrates ductor
- small pelagic fish often accompanying sharks or mantas
- scad
- any of a number of fishes of the family Carangidae
- Trachurus, genus Trachurus
- scads esp. horse mackerels
- horse mackerel, jack mackerel, Spanish mackerel, saurel, Trachurus symmetricus
- a California food fish
- horse mackerel, saurel, Trachurus trachurus
- large elongated compressed food fish of European Atlantic waters
- Selar, genus Selar
- big-eyed scad
- bigeye scad, big-eyed scad, goggle-eye, Selar crumenophthalmus
- of Atlantic coastal waters; commonly used for bait
- Decapterus, genus Decapterus
- scads especially mackerel scad; cosmopolitan
- mackerel scad, mackerel shad, Decapterus macarellus
- small silvery fish; Nova Scotia to Brazil
- round scad, cigarfish, quiaquia, Decapterus punctatus
- small fusiform fish of western Atlantic
- Coryphaenidae, family Coryphaenidae
- large active pelagic percoid fish
- dolphinfish, dolphin, mahimahi
- large slender food and game fish widely distributed in warm seas (especially around Hawaii)
- Coryphaena hippurus
- the more common dolphinfish valued as food; about six feet long
- Coryphaena equisetis
- a kind of dolphinfish
- Bramidae, family Bramidae
- deep-bodied percoid fishes of the open seas
- Brama, genus Brama
- type genus of the Bramidae
- pomfret, Brama raii
- deep-bodied sooty-black pelagic spiny-finned fish of North Atlantic and North Pacific; valued for food
- Branchiostegidae, family Branchiostegidae
- small family of marine fishes having covered gills
- blanquillo, tilefish
- important marine food fishes
- Characidae, family Characidae
- tropical freshwater fishes of Africa and S and Central America
- Characinidae, family Characinidae
- former name of the Characidae
- characin, characin fish, characid
- any freshwater fish of the family Characinidae
- Hemigrammus, genus Hemigrammus
- tetras
- tetra
- brightly colored tropical freshwater fishes
- Paracheirodon, genus Paracheirodon
- a genus of Characidae
- cardinal tetra, Paracheirodon axelrodi
- small bright red and blue aquarium fish from streams in Brazil and Columbia
- Serrasalmus, genus Serrasalmus
- piranhas
- piranha, pirana, caribe
- small voraciously carnivorous freshwater fishes of South America that attack and destroy living animals
- Cichlidae, family Cichlidae
- cichlids
- cichlid, cichlid fish
- freshwater fishes of tropical America and Africa and Asia similar to American sunfishes; some are food fishes; many small ones are popular in aquariums
- Tilapia, genus Tilapia
- a genus of Cichlidae
- bolti, Tilapia nilotica
- important food fish of the Nile and other rivers of Africa and Asia Minor
- Lutjanidae, family Lutjanidae
- snappers
- snapper
- any of several large sharp-toothed marine food and sport fishes of the family Lutjanidae of mainly tropical coastal waters
- Lutjanus, genus Lutjanus
- type genus of the Lutjanidae: snappers
- red snapper, Lutjanus blackfordi
- esteemed food fish with pinkish red head and body; common in American Atlantic coastal waters and Gulf of Mexico
- gray snapper, mangrove snapper, Lutjanus griseus
- found in shallow waters off the coast of Florida
- mutton snapper, muttonfish, Lutjanus analis
- similar to and often marketed as "red snapper"
- schoolmaster, Lutjanus apodus
- food fish of warm Caribbean and Atlantic waters
- Ocyurus, genus Ocyurus
- snappers
- yellowtail, yellowtail snapper, Ocyurus chrysurus
- superior food fish of the tropical Atlantic and Caribbean with broad yellow stripe along the sides and on the tail
- Haemulidae, family Haemulidae
- grunts
- grunt
- medium-sized tropical marine food fishes that utter a grunting sound when caught
- Haemulon, genus Haemulon
- type genus of the Haemulidae
- margate, Haemulon album
- red-mouthed grunt found from Florida to Brazil
- Spanish grunt, Haemulon macrostomum
- a kind of grunt
- tomtate, Haemulon aurolineatum
- found off the West Indies and Florida
- cottonwick, Haemulon malanurum
- of warm Atlantic waters
- sailor's-choice, sailors choice, Haemulon parra
- found from Florida to Brazil and Gulf of Mexico
- Anisotremus, genus Anisotremus
- a genus of Haemulidae
- porkfish, Anisotremus virginicus
- black and gold grunt found from Bermuda to Caribbean to Brazil
- pompon, black margate, Anisotremus surinamensis
- dusky gray food fish found from Louisiana and Florida southward
- Orthopristis, genus Orthopristis
- a genus of Haemulidae
- pigfish, hogfish, Orthopristis chrysopterus
- found from Long Island southward
- Sparidae, family Sparidae
- porgies; scups
- sparid, sparid fish
- spiny-finned food fishes of warm waters having well-developed teeth
- sea bream, bream
- any of numerous marine percoid fishes especially (but not exclusively) of the family Sparidae
- porgy
- important deep-bodied food and sport fish of warm and tropical coastal waters; found worldwide
- Pagrus, genus Pagrus
- a genus of Sparidae
- red porgy, Pagrus pagrus
- food fish of the Mediterranean and Atlantic coasts of Europe and America
- Pagellus, genus Pagellus
- sea breams
- European sea bream, Pagellus centrodontus
- food fish of European coastal waters
- Archosargus, genus Archosargus
- a genus of Sparidae
- Atlantic sea bream, Archosargus rhomboidalis
- sea bream of warm Atlantic waters
- sheepshead, Archosargus probatocephalus
- large (up to 20 lbs) food fish of the eastern coast of the United States and Mexico
- Lagodon, genus Lagodon
- a genus of Sparidae
- pinfish, sailor's-choice, squirrelfish, Lagodon rhomboides
- similar to sea bream; small spiny-finned fish found in bays along the southeastern coast of the United States
- Calamus, genus Calamus
- a genus of Sparidae
- sheepshead porgy, Calamus penna
- from Florida and Bahamas to Brazil
- Chrysophrys, genus Chrysophrys
- australian snapper
- snapper, Chrysophrys auratus
- Australian food fish having a pinkish body with blue spots
- black bream, Chrysophrys australis
- important dark-colored edible food and game fish of Australia
- Stenotomus, genus Stenotomus
- scups
- scup, northern porgy, northern scup, Stenotomus chrysops
- found in Atlantic coastal waters of North America from South Carolina to Maine; esteemed as a panfish
- scup, southern porgy, southern scup, Stenotomus aculeatus
- porgy of southern Atlantic coastal waters of North America
- Sciaenidae, family Sciaenidae
- warm-water marine fishes including the drums and grunts and croakers and sea trout
- sciaenid fish, sciaenid
- widely distributed family of carnivorous percoid fishes having a large air bladder used to produce sound
- drum, drumfish
- small to medium-sized bottom-dwelling food and game fishes of shallow coastal and fresh waters that make a drumming noise
- Equetus, genus Equetus
- drumfish
- striped drum, Equetus pulcher
- a kind of drumfish
- jackknife-fish, Equetus lanceolatus
- black-and-white drumfish with an erect elongated dorsal fin
- Bairdiella, genus Bairdiella
- drumfish
- silver perch, mademoiselle, Bairdiella chrysoura
- small silvery drumfish often mistaken for white perch; found along coasts of United States from New York to Mexico
- Sciaenops, genus Sciaenops
- a genus of Sciaenidae
- red drum, channel bass, redfish, Sciaenops ocellatus
- large edible fish found off coast of United States from Massachusetts to Mexico
- Sciaena, genus Sciaena
- type genus of the Sciaenidae: croakers
- mulloway, jewfish, Sciaena antarctica
- large important food fish of Australia; almost indistinguishable from the maigre
- maigre, maiger, Sciaena aquila
- large European marine food fish
- croaker
- any of several fishes that make a croaking noise
- Micropogonias, genus Micropogonias
- croakers
- Atlantic croaker, Micropogonias undulatus
- silvery-bodied with dark markings and tiny barbels
- Umbrina, genus Umbrina
- croakers
- yellowfin croaker, surffish, surf fish, Umbrina roncador
- fish of North American Pacific coast
- Menticirrhus, genus Menticirrhus
- kingfishes; whiting
- whiting
- any of several food fishes of North American coastal waters
- kingfish
- any of several food and game fishes of the drum family indigenous to warm Atlantic waters of the North American coast
- king whiting, Menticirrhus americanus
- whiting of the southeastern coast of North America
- northern whiting, Menticirrhus saxatilis
- whiting of the east coast of United States; closely resembles king whiting
- corbina, Menticirrhus undulatus
- bluish-gray whiting of California coast
- silver whiting, Menticirrhus littoralis
- a dull silvery whiting of southern Atlantic and Gulf coasts of the United States
- Genyonemus, genus Genyonemus
- a genus of Sciaenidae
- white croaker, chenfish, kingfish, Genyonemus lineatus
- small silvery marine food fish found off California
- Seriphus, genus Seriphus
- a genus of Sciaenidae
- white croaker, queenfish, Seriphus politus
- silvery and bluish drumfish of shallow California coastal waters
- sea trout
- any of several sciaenid fishes of North American coastal waters
- Cynoscion, genus Cynoscion
- sea trout
- weakfish, Cynoscion regalis
- food and game fish of North American coastal waters with a mouth from which hooks easily tear out
- spotted weakfish, spotted sea trout, spotted squeateague, Cynoscion nebulosus
- weakfish of southern Atlantic and Gulf coasts of United States
- Mullidae, family Mullidae
- goatfishes or red mullets
- mullet
- bottom-dwelling marine warm-water fishes with two barbels on the chin
- Mullus, genus Mullus
- type genus of the Mullidae: goatfishes
- goatfish, red mullet, surmullet, Mullus surmuletus
- brightly colored tropical fishes with chin barbels
- red goatfish, Mullus auratus
- body bright scarlet with 2 yellow to reddish strips on side
- Mulloidichthys, genus Mulloidichthys
- a genus of Mullidae
- yellow goatfish, Mulloidichthys martinicus
- schooling goatfish; grayish with yellow stripe
- Mugiloidea, suborder Mugiloidea
- fishes distinguished by abdominal pelvic fins: families Mugilidae; Atherinidae; Sphyraenidae
- Mugilidae, family Mugilidae
- gray mullets
- mullet, gray mullet
- freshwater or coastal food fishes a spindle-shaped body; found worldwide
- Mugil, genus Mugil
- type genus of the Mugilidae: mullets
- striped mullet, Mugil cephalus
- most important commercial mullet in eastern United States
- white mullet, Mugil curema
- silvery mullet of Atlantic and Pacific coasts
- liza, Mugil liza
- similar to the striped mullet and takes its place in the Caribbean region
- Atherinidae, family Atherinidae
- small spiny-finned fishes of both salt and fresh water
- silverside, silversides
- small fishes having a silver stripe along each side; found along the Atlantic coast of the United States
- Atherinopsis, genus Atherinopsis
- a genus of Atherinidae
- jacksmelt, Atherinopsis californiensis
- large silversides of Pacific coast of North America
- Sphyraenidae, family Sphyraenidae
- monotypic family of large active fishes of tropical and subtropical waters: barracuda
- Sphyraena, genus Sphyraena
- type and sole genus of the Sphyraenidae: barracuda
- barracuda
- any voracious marine fish of the genus Sphyraena having an elongated cylindrical body and large mouth with projecting lower jaw and long strong teeth
- great barracuda, Sphyraena barracuda
- large (up to 6 ft) grayish-brown barracuda highly regarded as a food and sport fish; may be dangerous to swimmers
- Pempheridae, family Pempheridae
- sweepers
- sweeper
- little-known nocturnal fish of warm shallow seas with an oblong compressed body
- Kyphosidae, family Kyphosidae
- sea chubs
- sea chub
- schooling fishes mostly of Indian and western Pacific oceans; two species in western Atlantic
- Kyphosus, genus Kyphosus
- type genus of the Kyphosidae
- Bermuda chub, rudderfish, Kyphosus sectatrix
- food and game fish around Bermuda and Florida; often follow ships
- Ephippidae, family Ephippidae
- small family comprising the spadefishes
- Chaetodipterus, genus Chaetodipterus
- a genus of Ephippidae
- spadefish, angelfish, Chaetodipterus faber
- deep-bodied disk-shaped food fish of warmer western Atlantic coastal waters
- Chaetodontidae, family Chaetodontidae
- butterfly fishes
- butterfly fish
- small usually brilliantly colored tropical marine fishes having narrow deep bodies with large broad fins; found worldwide
- genus Chaetodon
- type genus of the Chaetodontidae
- chaetodon
- any fish of the genus Chaetodon
- Pomacanthus, genus Pomacanthus
- angelfishes
- angelfish
- a butterfly fish of the genus Pomacanthus
- rock beauty, Holocanthus tricolor
- gold and black butterflyfish found from West Indies to Brazil
- Pomacentridae, family Pomacentridae
- damselfishes
- damselfish, demoiselle
- small brilliantly colored tropical marine fishes of coral reefs
- Pomacentrus, genus Pomacentrus
- type genus of the Pomacentridae: damselfishes
- beaugregory, Pomacentrus leucostictus
- blue-and-yellow damselfish of Bermuda Florida and West Indies
- Amphiprion, genus Amphiprion
- damsel fishes
- anemone fish
- live associated with sea anemones
- clown anemone fish, Amphiprion percula
- an anemone fish of the genus Amphiprion
- Abudefduf, genus Abudefduf
- damsel fishes
- sergeant major, Abudefduf saxatilis
- large blue-gray black-striped damselfish; nearly worldwide
- Labridae, family Labridae
- wrasses
- wrasse
- chiefly tropical marine fishes with fleshy lips and powerful teeth; usually brightly colored
- Achoerodus, genus Achoerodus
- a genus of Labridae
- pigfish, giant pigfish, Achoerodus gouldii
- found around the Great Barrier Reef
- Lachnolaimus, genus Lachnolaimus
- a genus of Labridae
- hogfish, hog snapper, Lachnolaimus maximus
- large wrasse of western Atlantic; head of male resembles a pig's snout
- Halicoeres, genus Halicoeres
- a genus of Labridae
- slippery dick, Halicoeres bivittatus
- small wrasse of tropical Atlantic
- puddingwife, Halicoeres radiatus
- bluish and bronze wrasse; found from Florida keys to Brazil
- Thalassoma, genus Thalassoma
- a genus of Labridae
- bluehead, Thalassoma bifasciatum
- small Atlantic wrasse the male of which has a brilliant blue head
- Hemipteronatus, genus Hemipteronatus
- razorfishes
- razorfish
- any of several small wrasses with compressed sharp-edged heads of the West Indies and Mediterranean
- pearly razorfish, Hemipteronatus novacula
- a kind of razorfish
- Tautoga, genus Tautoga
- tautogs
- tautog, blackfish, Tautoga onitis
- large dark-colored food fish of the Atlantic coast of North America
- Tautogolabrus, genus Tautogolabrus
- a genus of Labridae
- cunner, bergall, Tautogolabrus adspersus
- common in north Atlantic coastal waters of the United States
- Scaridae, family Scaridae
- parrotfishes
- parrotfish, pollyfish
- gaudy tropical fishes with parrotlike beaks formed by fusion of teeth
- Polynemidae, family Polynemidae
- threadfins
- threadfin
- mullet-like tropical marine fishes having pectoral fins with long threadlike rays
- Polydactylus, genus Polydactylus
- a genus of Polynemidae
- barbu, Polydactylus virginicus
- found along western Atlantic coast
- Opisthognathidae, family Opisthognathidae
- jawfishes
- jawfish
- small large-mouthed tropical marine fishes common along sandy bottoms; males brood egg balls in their mouths; popular aquarium fishes
- Uranoscopidae, family Uranoscopidae
- stargazers
- stargazer
- heavy-bodied marine bottom-lurkers with eyes on flattened top of the head
- Dactyloscopidae, family Dactyloscopidae
- sand stargazers
- sand stargazer
- small pallid fishes of shoal tropical waters of North and South America having eyes on stalks atop head; they burrow in sand to await prey
- Blennioidea, suborder Blennioidea
- blennies; butterfishes; gunnels
- blennioid fish, blennioid
- elongated mostly scaleless marine fishes with large pectoral fins and reduced pelvic fins
- Blenniidae, family Blenniidae
- a family of fish including: combtooth blennies
- blenny, combtooth blenny
- small usually scaleless fishes with comb-like teeth living about rocky shores; territorial and hole-dwelling
- Blennius, genus Blennius
- type genus of the Blenniidae
- shanny, Blennius pholis
- European scaleless blenny
- Scartella, genus Scartella
- a genus of Blenniidae
- Molly Miller, Scartella cristata
- inhabits both coasts of tropical Atlantic
- Clinidae, family Clinidae
- viviparous blennies of temperate and tropical seas
- clinid, clinid fish
- mostly small blennioid fishes of coral reefs and seagrass beds
- Chaenopsis, genus Chaenopsis
- a genus of fish of the family Clinidae including pikeblennies
- pikeblenny
- tropical American fishes; males are aggressively defensive of their territory
- bluethroat pikeblenny, Chaenopsis ocellata
- found from Florida to Cuba
- Pholidae, family Pholidae, family Pholididae
- a family of fish of suborder Blennioidea
- gunnel, bracketed blenny
- small eellike fishes common in shallow waters of the North Atlantic
- Pholis, genus Pholis
- type genus of the Pholidae: gunnels
- rock gunnel, butterfish, Pholis gunnellus
- slippery scaleless food fish of North Atlantic coastal waters
- Stichaeidae, family Stichaeidae
- pricklebacks
- prickleback
- small elongate fishes of shallow northern seas; a long dorsal fin consists entirely of spines
- Lumpenus, genus Lumpenus
- a genus of Stichaeidae
- snakeblenny, Lumpenus lumpretaeformis
- found in Arctic and North Atlantic
- eelblenny
- eellike fishes found in subarctic coastal waters
- Cryptacanthodes, genus Cryptacanthodes
- a genus of Stichaeidae
- wrymouth, ghostfish, Cryptacanthodes maculatus
- eellike Atlantic bottom fish with large almost vertical mouth
- Anarhichadidae, family Anarhichadidae
- wolffishes
- Anarhichas, genus Anarhichas
- type genus of the Anarhichadidae
- wolffish, wolf fish, catfish
- large ferocious northern deep-sea food fishes with strong teeth and no pelvic fins
- Zoarcidae, family Zoarcidae
- eelpouts
- eelpout, pout
- marine eellike mostly bottom-dwelling fishes of northern seas
- Zoarces, genus Zoarces
- type genus of the Zoarcidae
- viviparous eelpout, Zoarces viviparus
- an eelpout of northern Europe that is viviparous
- Gymnelis, genus Gymnelis
- a genus of Zoarcidae
- fish doctor, Gymnelis viridis
- brightly colored scaleless Arctic eelpout
- Macrozoarces, genus Macrozoarces
- a genus of Zoarcidae
- ocean pout, Macrozoarces americanus
- common along northeastern coast of North America
- Ammodytidae, family Ammodytidae
- sand lances
- Ammodytes, genus Ammodytes
- type genus of the Ammodytidae
- sand lance, sand launce, sand eel, launce
- very small silvery eellike schooling fishes that burrow into sandy beaches
- Callionymidae, family Callionymidae
- dragonets
- dragonet
- small often brightly colored scaleless marine bottom-dwellers; found in tropical and warm-temperate waters of Europe and America
- Gobiidae, family Gobiidae
- gobies
- goby, gudgeon
- small spiny-finned fish of coastal or brackish waters having a large head and elongated tapering body having the ventral fins modified as a sucker
- Periophthalmus, genus Periophthalmus
- a genus of Gobiidae
- mudskipper, mudspringer
- found in tropical coastal regions of Africa and Asia; able to move on land on strong pectoral fins
- Eleotridae, family Eleotridae
- sleepers
- sleeper, sleeper goby
- tropical fish that resembles a goby and rests quietly on the bottom in shallow water
- Percophidae, family Percophidae
- percoid flatheads
- flathead
- pallid bottom-dwelling flat-headed fish with large eyes and a duck-like snout
- Toxotidae, family Toxotidae
- archerfishes
- Toxotes, genus Toxotes
- type genus of the Toxotidae
- archerfish, Toxotes jaculatrix
- any of several small Indo-Australian freshwater fishes that catch insects by squirting water at them and knocking them into the water
- Microdesmidae, family Microdesmidae
- wormfishes
- wormfish
- poorly known family of small tropical shallow-water fishes related to gobies
- Acanthuridae, family Acanthuridae
- surgeonfishes
- surgeonfish
- brightly colored coral-reef fish with knifelike spines at the tail
- Acanthurus, genus Acanthurus
- type genus of the Acanthuridae: doctorfishes
- doctorfish, Acanthurus chirurgus
- surgeon fish of the West Indies
- Gempylidae, family Gempylidae
- snake mackerels
- gempylid
- snake mackerels; elongated oily-fleshed marine fishes resembling mackerels; found worldwide
- Gempylus, genus Gempylus
- type genus of the Gempylidae
- snake mackerel, Gempylus serpens
- predatory tropical fishes with jutting jaws and strong teeth
- Lepidocybium, genus Lepidocybium
- a genus of Gempylidae
- escolar, Lepidocybium flavobrunneum
- large snake mackerel with rings like spectacles around its eyes
- oilfish, Ruvettus pretiosus
- very large deep-water snake mackerel
- Trichiuridae, family Trichiuridae
- cutlassfishes
- cutlassfish, frost fish, hairtail
- long-bodied marine fishes having a long whiplike scaleless body and sharp teeth; closely related to snake_mackerel
- Scombroidea, suborder Scombroidea
- mackerels; tunas; albacores; bonitos; swordfishes; sailfishes
- scombroid, scombroid fish
- important marine food and game fishes found in all tropical and temperate seas; some are at least partially endothermic and can thrive in colder waters
- Scombridae, family Scombridae
- marine food fishes: mackerels; chub mackerels; tuna
- mackerel
- any of various fishes of the family Scombridae
- Scomber, genus Scomber
- type genus of the Scombridae
- common mackerel, shiner, Scomber scombrus
- important food fish of the North Atlantic and Mediterranean; its body is greenish-blue with dark bars and small if any scales
- Spanish mackerel, Scomber colias
- medium-sized mackerel of temperate Atlantic and Gulf of Mexico
- chub mackerel, tinker, Scomber japonicus
- small mackerel found nearly worldwide
- Acanthocybium, genus Acanthocybium
- wahoos
- wahoo, Acanthocybium solandri
- large fast-moving predacious food and game fish; found worldwide
- Scomberomorus, genus Scomberomorus
- Spanish mackerels
- Spanish mackerel
- any of several large marine food fishes of the genus Scomberomorus
- king mackerel, cavalla, cero, Scomberomorus cavalla
- large mackerel with long pointed snout; important food and game fish of the eastern Atlantic coast south to Brazil
- Scomberomorus maculatus
- large commercially important mackerel of American Atlantic coastal waters
- cero, pintado, kingfish, Scomberomorus regalis
- large edible mackerel of temperate United States coastal Atlantic waters
- sierra, Scomberomorus sierra
- a Spanish mackerel of western North America
- Thunnus, genus Thunnus
- tunas: warm-blooded fishes
- tuna, tunny
- any very large marine food and game fish of the genus Thunnus; related to mackerel; chiefly of warm waters
- albacore, long-fin tunny, Thunnus alalunga
- large pelagic tuna the source of most canned tuna; reaches 93 pounds and has long pectoral fins; found worldwide in tropical and temperate waters
- bluefin, bluefin tuna, horse mackerel, Thunnus thynnus
- largest tuna; to 1500 pounds; of mostly temperate seas: feed in polar regions but breed in tropics
- yellowfin, yellowfin tuna, Thunnus albacares
- may reach 400 pounds; worldwide in tropics
- Sarda, genus Sarda
- bonitos
- bonito
- any of various scombroid fishes intermediate in size and characteristics between mackerels and tunas
- skipjack, Atlantic bonito, Sarda sarda
- medium-sized tuna-like food fish of warm Atlantic and Pacific waters; less valued than tuna
- Chile bonito, Chilean bonito, Sarda chiliensis
- common bonito of Pacific coast of the Americas; its dark oily flesh cans well
- Pacific bonito, Sarda lineolata
- probably a northern strain of Chile bonito
- Euthynnus, genus Euthynnus
- a genus of Scombridae
- skipjack, skipjack tuna, Euthynnus pelamis
- oceanic schooling tuna of considerable value in Pacific but less in Atlantic; reaches 75 pounds; very similar to if not the same as oceanic bonito
- Katsuwonus, genus Katsuwonus
- oceanic bonitos; in some classifications placed in its own family Katsuwonidae
- Katsuwonidae, family Kasuwonidae
- in some classifications considered a separate family comprising the oceanic bonitos
- bonito, oceanic bonito, Katsuwonus pelamis
- fish whose flesh is dried and flaked for Japanese cookery; may be same species as skipjack tuna
- Xiphiidae, family Xiphiidae
- comprising the common swordfishes
- Xiphias, genus Xiphias
- type genus of the Xiphiidae
- swordfish, Xiphias gladius
- large toothless marine food fish with a long swordlike upper jaw; not completely cold-blooded i.e. they are able to warm their brains and eyes: worldwide in warm waters but feed on cold ocean floor coming to surface at night
- Istiophoridae, family Istiophoridae
- sailfishes; spearfishes; marlins
- sailfish
- large pelagic game fish having an elongated upper jaw and long sail-like dorsal fin
- Istiophorus, genus Istiophorus
- type genus of the Istiophoridae
- Atlantic sailfish, Istiophorus albicans
- a kind of sailfish
- billfish
- giant warm-water game fish having a prolonged and rounded toothless upper jaw
- Makaira, genus Makaira
- marlins
- marlin, spearfish
- large long-jawed oceanic sport fishes; related to sailfishes and spearfishes; not completely cold-blooded i.e. able to warm their brains and eyes
- blue marlin, Makaira nigricans
- largest marlin; may reach 2000 pounds; found worldwide in warm seas
- black marlin, Makaira mazara
- Pacific marlin
- black marlin, Makaira marlina
- Pacific marlin
- striped marlin, Makaira mitsukurii
- Pacific food and game fish marked with dark blue vertical stripes
- white marlin, Makaira albida
- small marlin (to 180 pounds) of western Atlantic
- Tetrapturus, genus Tetrapturus
- a genus of Istiophoridae
- spearfish
- any of several large vigorous pelagic fishes resembling sailfishes but with first dorsal fin much reduced; worldwide but rare
- Luvaridae, family Luvaridae
- louvars
- Luvarus, genus Luvarus
- type genus of the Luvaridae
- louvar, Luvarus imperialis
- large silvery fish found worldwide in warm seas but nowhere common; resembles a whale and feeds on plankton
- Stromateidae, family Stromateidae
- butterfishes: harvest fishes; dollar fishes
- butterfish, stromateid fish, stromateid
- small marine fish with a short smooth-scaled compressed body and feeble spines
- Poronotus, genus Poronotus
- a genus of Stromateidae
- dollarfish, Poronotus triacanthus
- small food fish of Atlantic coast
- genus Palometa
- a genus of Stromateidae
- palometa, California pompano, Palometa simillima
- smaller than Florida pompano; common in West Indies
- Paprilus, genus Paprilus
- a genus of Stromateidae
- harvestfish, Paprilus alepidotus
- butterfish up to a foot long of Atlantic waters from Chesapeake Bay to Argentina
- Psenes, genus Psenes
- a genus of Stromateidae
- driftfish
- small (6 inches) tropical butterfishes found worldwide
- Ariomma, genus Ariomma
- a genus of Stromateidae
- driftfish
- larger driftfishes of eastern Atlantic from NY area to northern Gulf of Mexico
- Tetragonurus, genus Tetragonurus
- a genus of Stromateidae
- squaretail
- sluggish square-tailed fish armored with tough bony scales; of deep warm waters
- Hyperoglyphe, genus Hyperoglyphe
- a genus of Stromateidae
- barrelfish, black rudderfish, Hyperglyphe perciformis
- blackish fish of New England waters
- Gobiesocidae, family Gobiesocidae
- clingfishes
- Gobiesox, genus Gobiesox
- type genus of the Gobiesocidae
- clingfish
- very small (to 3 inches) flattened marine fish with a sucking disc on the abdomen for clinging to rocks etc.
- skilletfish, Gobiesox strumosus
- clingfish with typical skillet shape
- Lobotidae, family Lobotidae
- tripletails
- Lobotes, genus Lobotes
- type genus of the Lobotidae
- tripletail
- large food fish of warm waters worldwide having long anal and dorsal fins that with caudal fin suggest a three-lobed tail
- Atlantic tripletail, Lobotes surinamensis
- tripletail found from Cape Cod to northern South America
- Pacific tripletail, Lobotes pacificus
- tripletail found in the Pacific
- Gerreidae, family Gerreidae, Gerridae, family Gerridae
- mojarras
- mojarra
- small silvery schooling fishes with protrusible mouths found in warm coastal waters
- Gerres, genus Gerres
- type genus of the Gerreidae
- yellowfin mojarra, Gerres cinereus
- popular panfish from Bermuda and Gulf of Mexico to Brazil
- Eucinostomus, genus Eucinostomus
- a genus of Gerreidae
- silver jenny, Eucinostomus gula
- silvery mojarra found along sandy shores of the western Atlantic
- Sillaginidae, family Sillaginidae
- small family of small food fishes of shallow Indo-Pacific waters
- Sillago, genus Sillago
- type genus of the Sillaginidae
- whiting
- a small fish of the genus Sillago; excellent food fish
- Ganoidei, order Ganoidei
- a group of mostly extinct primitive bony fishes characterized by armor-like bony scales
- ganoid, ganoid fish
- primitive fishes having thick bony scales with a shiny covering
- Amiidae, family Amiidae
- only the bowfins
- Amia, genus Amia
- type genus of the Amiidae
- bowfin, grindle, dogfish, Amia calva
- primitive long-bodies carnivorous freshwater fish with a very long dorsal fin; found in sluggish waters of North America
- Polyodontidae, family Polyodontidae
- paddlefishes
- Polyodon, genus Polyodon
- type genus of the Polyodontidae
- paddlefish, duckbill, Polyodon spathula
- primitive fish of the Mississippi valley having a long paddle-shaped snout
- Psephurus, genus Psephurus
- a genus of Polyodontidae
- Chinese paddlefish, Psephurus gladis
- fish of larger rivers of China similar to the Mississippi paddlefish
- Acipenseridae, family Acipenseridae
- sturgeons
- sturgeon
- large primitive fishes valued for their flesh and roe; widely distributed in north temperate zone
- Acipenser, genus Acipenser
- type genus of the Acipenseridae: sturgeons
- Pacific sturgeon, white sturgeon, Sacramento sturgeon, Acipenser transmontanus
- food and game fish of marine and fresh waters of northwestern coast of North America
- beluga, hausen, white sturgeon, Acipenser huso
- valuable source of caviar and isinglass; found in Black and Caspian seas
- Lepisosteidae, family Lepisosteidae
- comprises the genus Lepisosteus
- Lepisosteus, genus Lepisosteus
- type genus of the Lepisosteidae: freshwater gars
- gar, garfish, garpike, billfish, Lepisosteus osseus
- primitive predaceous North American fish covered with hard scales and having long jaws with needle-like teeth
- Scleroparei, order Scleroparei
- scorpionfishes; sculpins; gurnards; greenlings; flying gurnards
- Scorpaenoidea, suborder Scorpaenoidea
- mail-cheeked fishes: scorpionfishes; gurnards
- scorpaenoid, scorpaenoid fish
- fishes having the the head armored with bony plates
- Scorpaenidae, family Scorpaenidae
- scorpionfishes; rockfishes; lionfishes
- scorpaenid, scorpaenid fish
- any of numerous carnivorous usually bottom-dwelling warm-water marine fishes found worldwide but most abundant in the Pacific
- Scorpaena, genus Scorpaena
- type genus of the Scorpaenidae: scorpionfishes
- scorpionfish, scorpion fish, sea scorpion
- marine fishes having a tapering body with an armored head and venomous spines
- plumed scorpionfish, Scorpaena grandicornis
- a kind of scorpionfish
- Pterois, genus Pterois
- lionfishes
- lionfish
- brightly striped fish of the tropical Pacific having elongated spiny fins
- Synanceja, genus Synanceja
- stonefishes
- stonefish, Synanceja verrucosa
- venomous tropical marine fish resembling a piece of rock
- Sebastodes, genus Sebastodes
- rockfishes
- rockfish
- marine food fish found among rocks along the northern coasts of Europe and America
- copper rockfish, Sebastodes caurinus
- of North American Pacific coastal waters
- vermillion rockfish, rasher, Sebastodes miniatus
- commercially important fish of the North American Pacific coast
- red rockfish, Sebastodes ruberrimus
- large fish of North American Pacific coast
- rosefish, ocean perch, Sebastodes marinus
- large fish of northern Atlantic coasts of America and Europe
- Cottidae, family Cottidae
- sculpins
- Cottus, genus Cottus
- type genus of the Cottidae: sculpins
- sculpin
- any of numerous spiny large-headed broad-bouthed usually scaleless scorpaenoid fishes
- bullhead
- freshwater sculpin with a large flattened bony-plated head with hornlike spines
- miller's-thumb
- small freshwater sculpin of Europe and North America
- Hemitripterus, genus Hemitripterus
- sea ravens
- sea raven, Hemitripterus americanus
- large sculpin of western Atlantic; inflates itself when caught
- Myxocephalus, genus Myxocephalus
- grubby
- grubby, Myxocephalus aenaeus
- small sculpin of the coast of New England
- Cyclopteridae, family Cyclopteridae
- lumpfishes
- Cyclopterus, genus Cyclopterus
- type genus of the Cyclopteridae: lumpfishes
- lumpfish, Cyclopterus lumpus
- clumsy soft thick-bodied North Atlantic fish with pelvic fins fused into a sucker; edible roe used for caviar
- lumpsucker
- any of several very small lumpfishes
- Liparididae, family Liparididae, Liparidae, family Liparidae
- snailfishes
- Liparis, genus Liparis
- type genus of the Liparididae: snailfishes
- snailfish, seasnail, sea snail, Liparis liparis
- small tadpole-shaped cold-water fishes with pelvic fins forming a sucker; related to lumpfish
- Agonidae, family Agonidae
- poachers
- poacher, sea poacher, sea poker
- small slender fish (to 8 inches) with body covered by bony plates; chiefly of deeper north Pacific waters
- Agonus, genus Agonus
- type genus of the Agonidae
- pogge, armed bullhead, Agonus cataphractus
- North Atlantic sea poacher
- Aspidophoroides, genus Aspidophoroides
- alligatorfishes
- alligatorfish, Aspidophoroides monopterygius
- small very elongate sea poachers
- Hexagrammidae, family Hexagrammidae
- greenlings
- greenling
- food fish of the northern Pacific
- Hexagrammos, genus Hexagrammos
- type genus of the Hexagrammidae
- kelp greenling, Hexagrammos decagrammus
- common food and sport fish of western coast of North America
- Oxylebius, genus Oxylebius
- a genus of Hexagrammidae
- painted greenling, convictfish, Oxylebius pictus
- greenling with whitish body marked with black bands
- Platycephalidae, family Platycephalidae
- scorpaenoid flatheads
- flathead
- food fish of the Indo-Pacific region resembling gurnards
- Triglidae, family Triglidae
- in some classifications restricted to the gurnards and subdivided into the subfamilies Triglinae (true sea robins) and Peristediinae (armored sea robins)
- gurnard
- bottom-dwelling coastal fishes with spiny armored heads and fingerlike pectoral fins used for crawling along the sea bottom
- Triga, genus Triga
- type genus of the Triglidae
- tub gurnard, yellow gurnard, Trigla lucerna
- a kind of gurnard
- sea robin, searobin
- American gurnard; mostly found in bays and estuaries
- Triglinae, subfamily Triglinae
- in some classifications considered a subfamily of Triglidae comprising searobins having ordinary scales and no barbels (true searobins)
- Prionotus, genus Prionotus
- a genus of Triglidae
- northern sea robin, Prionotus carolinus
- large searobin; found from Nova Scotia to Florida
- Peristediinae, subfamily Peristediinae
- in some classifications considered a subfamily of Triglidae comprising the armored searobins
- Peristedion, genus Peristedion
- in some classifications the type genus of the subfamily Peristediinae: armored sea robins
- armored searobin, armored sea robin, Peristedion miniatum
- sea robins having bony scutes on the body and barbels on the chin; found mostly on the continental slope
- Dactylopteridae, family Dactylopteridae
- flying gurnards
- Dactylopterus, genus Dactylopterus
- a genus of Dactylopteridae
- flying gurnard, flying robin, butterflyfish
- tropical fish with huge fanlike pectoral fins for underwater gliding; unrelated to searobins
- Plectognathi, order Plectognathi, order Tetraodontiformes
- boxfishes; filefishes; globefishes; ocean sunfishes; triggerfishes; puffers
- plectognath, plectognath fish
- tropical marine fishes having the teeth fused into a beak and thick skin covered with bony plates or spines
- Balistidae, family Balistidae
- triggerfishes
- triggerfish
- any of numerous compressed deep-bodied tropical fishes with sandpapery skin and erectile spines in the first dorsal fin
- Balistes, genus Balistes
- type genus of the Balistidae
- queen triggerfish, Bessy cerca, oldwench, oldwife, Balistes vetula
- tropical Atlantic fish
- Monocanthidae, family Monocanthidae
- filefishes
- filefish
- narrow flattened warm-water fishes with leathery skin and a long file-like dorsal spine
- Monocanthus, genus Monocanthus
- type genus of the Monocanthidae
- leatherjacket, leatherfish
- any of several brightly colored tropical filefishes
- Ostraciidae, family Ostraciidae, family Ostraciontidae
- boxfishes
- boxfish, trunkfish
- any of numerous small tropical fishes having body and head encased in bony plates
- Lactophrys, genus Lactophrys
- a genus of Ostraciidae
- cowfish, Lactophrys quadricornis
- trunkfish having hornlike spines over the eyes
- Tetraodontidae, family Tetraodontidae
- puffers
- puffer, blowfish, globefish
- any of numerous marine fishes whose elongated spiny body can inflate itself with water or air to form a globe; several species contain a potent nerve poison; closely related to spiny puffers
- Diodontidae, family Diodontidae
- spiny puffers
- spiny puffer
- puffers having rigid or erectile spines
- Diodon, genus Diodon
- type genus of the Diodontidae
- porcupinefish, porcupine fish, Diodon hystrix
- spines become erect when the body is inflated; worldwide in warm waters
- balloonfish, Diodon holocanthus
- similar to but smaller than porcupinefish
- Chilomycterus, genus Chilomycterus
- burrfishes
- burrfish
- any of several fishes having rigid flattened spines
- Molidae, family Molidae
- ocean sunfishes
- genus Mola
- type genus of the Molidae
- ocean sunfish, sunfish, mola, headfish
- among the largest bony fish; pelagic fish having an oval compressed body with high dorsal and anal fins and caudal fin reduced to a rudder-like lobe; worldwide in warm waters
- sharptail mola, Mola lanceolata
- caudal fin has a central projection
- Heterosomata, order Heterosomata, order Pleuronectiformes
- flatfishes: halibut; sole; flounder; plaice; turbot; tonguefishes
- flatfish
- any of several families of fishes having flattened bodies that swim along the sea floor on one side of the body with both eyes on the upper side
- flounder
- any of various European and non-European marine flatfish
- Pleuronectidae, family Pleuronectidae
- righteye flounders
- righteye flounder, righteyed flounder
- flounders with both eyes on the right side of the head
- Pleuronectes, genus Pleuronectes
- type genus of the Pleuronectidae
- plaice, Pleuronectes platessa
- large European food fish
- Platichthys, genus Platichthys
- a genus of Pleuronectidae
- European flatfish, Platichthys flesus
- important food fish of Europe
- Limanda, genus Limanda
- a genus of Pleuronectidae
- yellowtail flounder, Limanda ferruginea
- American flounder having a yellowish tail
- Pseudopleuronectes, genus Pseudopleuronectes
- a genus of Pleuronectidae
- winter flounder, blackback flounder, lemon sole, Pseudopleuronectes americanus
- important American food fish in the winter
- Microstomus, genus Microstomus
- a genus of Pleuronectidae
- lemon sole, Microstomus kitt
- European flatfish highly valued as food
- Hippoglossoides, genus Hippoglossoides
- a genus of Pleuronectidae
- American plaice, Hippoglossoides platessoides
- large American food fish
- halibut, holibut
- marine food fish of North Atlantic or North Pacific; the largest flatfish and one of the largest teleost fishes
- Hippoglossus, genus Hippoglossus
- halibuts
- Atlantic halibut, Hippoglossus hippoglossus
- largest United States flatfish
- Pacific halibut, Hippoglossus stenolepsis
- a righteye flounder found in the Pacific
- Bothidae, family Bothidae
- a family of fish of the order Heterosomata
- lefteye flounder, lefteyed flounder
- flatfishes with both eyes on the left side of the head
- Paralichthys, genus Paralichthys
- a genus of Bothidae
- southern flounder, Paralichthys lethostigmus
- flounder of southern United States
- summer flounder, Paralichthys dentatus
- flounder of eastern coast of North America
- Etropus, genus Etropus
- a genus of Bothidae
- gray flounder, Etropus rimosus
- N Carolina to Florida and eastern Gulf of Mexico
- Citharichthys, genus Citharichthys
- a genus of Bothidae
- whiff
- from New England to Brazil
- horned whiff, Citharichthys cornutus
- from Bahamas and northern Gulf of Mexico to Brazil
- sand dab
- small food fishes of the Pacific coast of North America
- Scophthalmus, genus Scophthalmus
- a genus of Bothidae
- windowpane, Scophthalmus aquosus
- very thin translucent flounder of the Atlantic coast of North America
- brill, Scophthalmus rhombus
- European food fish
- Psetta, genus Psetta
- a genus of Bothidae
- turbot, Psetta maxima
- a large brownish European flatfish
- Cynoglossidae, family Cynoglossidae
- tonguefishes
- tonguefish
- left-eyed marine flatfish whose tail tapers to a point; of little commercial value
- Soleidae, family Soleidae
- soles
- sole
- right-eyed flatfish; many are valued as food; most common in warm seas esp. European
- Solea, genus Solea
- type genus of the Soleidae
- European sole, Solea solea
- highly valued as food
- lemon sole, Solea lascaris
- small European sole
- Parophrys, genus Parophrys
- a genus of Soleidae
- English sole, lemon sole, Parophrys vitulus
- popular pale brown food flatfish of the Pacific coast of North America
- Psettichthys, genus Psettichthys
- a genus of Soleidae
- sand sole, Psettichthys melanostichus
- common flatfish of North American Pacific coast
- Trinectes, genus Trinectes
- a genus of Soleidae
- hogchoker, Trinectes maculatus
- useless as food; in coastal streams from Maine to Texas and Panama
- fishlike
- resembling a fish; "an extinct fishlike vertebrate"
- carangid
- (zoology) of or relating to fish of the family Carangidae
- cyprinid, cyprinoid
- of or relating to members of fish family Cyprinidae