percoidean

Definitions of percoidean

1. noun

   any of numerous spiny-finned fishes of the order Perciformes
   synonyms: percoid, percoid fish

   types:

   perch

   any of numerous spiny-finned fishes of various families of the order Perciformes

   perch

   spiny-finned freshwater food and game fishes

   sandfish

   either of two small silvery scaleless fishes of the northern Pacific that burrow into sand

   cusk-eel

   elongate compressed somewhat eel-shaped fishes

   brotula

   deep-sea fishes

   pearl-fish, 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

   robalo

   a kind of percoid fish

   pike

   any of several elongate long-snouted freshwater game and food fishes widely distributed in cooler parts of the northern hemisphere

   centrarchid, sunfish

   small carnivorous freshwater percoid fishes of North America usually having a laterally compressed body and metallic luster: crappies; black bass; bluegills; pumpkinseed

   bass

   nontechnical name for any of numerous edible marine and freshwater spiny-finned fishes

   serranid, serranid fish

   marine food sport fishes mainly of warm coastal waters

   surf fish, surffish, surfperch

   small to medium-sized shallow-water fishes of the Pacific coast of North America

   bigeye

   red fishes of American coastal tropical waters having very large eyes and rough scales

   Priacanthus arenatus, catalufa

   brightly colored carnivorous fish of western Atlantic and West Indies waters

   cardinalfish

   small red fishes of coral reefs and inshore tropical waters

   Lopholatilus chamaeleonticeps, tilefish

   yellow-spotted violet food fish of warm deep waters

   Pomatomus saltatrix, bluefish

   bluish warm-water marine food and game fish that follow schools of small fishes into shallow waters

   Rachycentron canadum, cobia, sergeant fish

   large dark-striped tropical food and game fish related to remoras; found worldwide in coastal to open waters

   carangid, carangid fish

   a percoid fish of the family Carangidae

   dolphin, dolphinfish, mahimahi

   large slender food and game fish widely distributed in warm seas (especially around Hawaii)

   blanquillo, tilefish

   important marine food fishes

   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

   snapper

   any of several large sharp-toothed marine food and sport fishes of the family Lutjanidae of mainly tropical coastal waters

   grunt

   medium-sized tropical marine food fishes that utter grunting sounds when caught

   sparid, sparid fish

   spiny-finned food fishes of warm waters having well-developed teeth

   bream, sea bream

   any of numerous marine percoid fishes especially (but not exclusively) of the family Sparidae

   sciaenid, sciaenid fish

   widely distributed family of carnivorous percoid fishes having a large air bladder used to produce sound

   mullet

   bottom dwelling marine warm water fishes with two barbels on the chin

   gray mullet, grey mullet, mullet

   freshwater or coastal food fishes a spindle-shaped body; found worldwide

   sea chub

   schooling fishes mostly of Indian and western Pacific oceans; two species in western Atlantic

   Chaetodipterus faber, angelfish, spadefish

   deep-bodied disk-shaped food fish of warmer western Atlantic coastal waters

   butterfly fish

   small usually brilliantly colored tropical marine fishes having narrow deep bodies with large broad fins; found worldwide

   damselfish, demoiselle

   small brilliantly colored tropical marine fishes of coral reefs

   wrasse

   chiefly tropical marine fishes with fleshy lips and powerful teeth; usually brightly colored

   parrotfish, polly fish, pollyfish

   gaudy tropical fishes with parrotlike beaks formed by fusion of teeth

   threadfin

   mullet-like tropical marine fishes having pectoral fins with long threadlike rays

   jawfish

   small large-mouthed tropical marine fishes common along sandy bottoms; males brood egg balls in their mouths; popular aquarium fishes

   stargazer

   heavy-bodied marine bottom-lurkers with eyes on flattened top of the head

   sand stargazer

   small pallid fishes of shoal tropical waters of North America and South America having eyes on stalks atop head; they burrow in sand to await prey

   blennioid, blennioid fish

   elongated mostly scaleless marine fishes with large pectoral fins and reduced pelvic fins

   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

   sleeper, sleeper goby

   tropical fish that resembles a goby and rests quietly on the bottom in shallow water

   flathead

   pallid bottom-dwelling flat-headed fish with large eyes and a duck-like snout

   Toxotes jaculatrix, archerfish

   any of several small freshwater fishes that catch insects by squirting water at them and knocking them into the water; found in Indonesia and Australia

   worm fish

   poorly known family of small tropical shallow-water fishes related to gobies

   surgeonfish

   brightly colored coral-reef fish with knifelike spines at the tail

   gempylid

   snake mackerels; elongated marine fishes with oily flesh; resembles mackerels; found worldwide

   cutlassfish, frost fish, hairtail

   long-bodied marine fishes having a long whiplike scaleless body and sharp teeth; closely related to snake mackerel

   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

   butterfish, stromateid, stromateid fish

   small marine fish with a short compressed body and feeble spines

   clingfish

   very small (to 3 inches) flattened marine fish with a sucking disc on the abdomen for clinging to rocks etc.

   tripletail

   large food fish of warm waters worldwide having long anal and dorsal fins that with a caudal fin suggest a three-lobed tail

   mojarra

   small silvery schooling fishes with protrusible mouths found in warm coastal waters

   whiting

   a small fish of the genus Sillago; excellent food fish

   Perca flavescens, yellow perch

   North American perch

   European perch, Perca fluviatilis

   a perch native to Europe

   pike perch, pike-perch

   any of several pike-like fishes of the perch family

   Percina tanasi, snail darter

   a small snail-eating perch of the Tennessee River

   snook

   large tropical American food and game fishes of coastal and brackish waters; resemble pike

   Esox lucius, northern pike

   voracious piscivorous pike of waters of northern hemisphere

   Esox masquinongy, muskellunge

   large (60 to 80 pounds) sport fish of North America

   pickerel

   any of several North American species of small pike

   crappie

   small sunfishes of central United States rivers

   bream, freshwater bream

   any of various usually edible freshwater percoid fishes having compressed bodies and shiny scales; especially (but not exclusively) of the genus Lepomis

   Lepomis gibbosus, pumpkinseed

   small brilliantly colored North American sunfish

   freshwater bass

   North American food and game fish

   Ambloplites rupestris, rock bass, rock sunfish

   game and food fish of upper Mississippi and Great Lakes

   black bass

   widely distributed and highly prized American freshwater game fishes (sunfish family)

   Morone americana, silver perch, white perch

   small silvery food and game fish of eastern United States streams

   Morone interrupta, yellow bass

   North American freshwater bass resembling the larger marine striped bass

   sea bass

   any of various food and sport fishes of the Atlantic coast of the United States having an elongated body and long spiny dorsal fin

   soapfish

   fishes with slimy mucus-covered skin; found in the warm Atlantic coastal waters of America

   Hipsurus caryi, rainbow perch, rainbow seaperch

   Pacific coast fish

   Apogon maculatus, flame fish, flamefish

   a cardinalfish found in tropical Atlantic coastal waters

   Astropogon stellatus, conchfish

   found in West Indies; lives in mantle cavity of a living conch

   jack

   any of several fast-swimming predacious fishes of tropical to warm temperate seas

   Atlantic moonfish, Selene setapinnis, dollarfish, horse-head, horsefish, horsehead, moonfish

   any of several silvery marine fishes with very flat bodies

   pompano

   any of several deep-bodied food fishes of western Atlantic and Gulf of Mexico

   Naucrates ductor, pilotfish

   small pelagic fish often accompanying sharks or mantas

   scad

   any of a number of fishes of the family Carangidae

   Coryphaena hippurus

   the more common dolphinfish valued as food; about six feet long

   Coryphaena equisetis

   a kind of dolphinfish

   Brama raii, pomfret

   deep-bodied sooty-black pelagic spiny-finned fish of the northern Atlantic and northern Pacific; valued for food

   Tilapia nilotica, bolti

   important food fish of the Nile and other rivers of Africa and Asia Minor

   Lutjanus blackfordi, red snapper

   an esteemed food fish with pinkish red head and body; common in the Atlantic coastal waters of North America and the Gulf of Mexico

   Lutjanus griseus, gray snapper, grey snapper, mangrove snapper

   found in shallow waters off the coast of Florida

   Lutjanus analis, mutton snapper, muttonfish

   similar to and often marketed as `red snapper';

   Lutjanus apodus, schoolmaster

   food fish of warm Caribbean and Atlantic waters

   Ocyurus chrysurus, yellowtail, yellowtail snapper

   superior food fish of the tropical Atlantic and Caribbean with broad yellow stripe along the sides and on the tail

   Haemulon album, margate

   a grunt with a red mouth that is found from Florida to Brazil

   Haemulon macrostomum, Spanish grunt

   a kind of grunt

   Haemulon aurolineatum, tomtate

   found off the West Indies and Florida

   Haemulon malanurum, cottonwick

   of warm Atlantic waters

   Haemulon parra, sailor's-choice, sailors choice

   a grunt found from Florida to Brazil and Gulf of Mexico

   Anisotremus virginicus, pork-fish, porkfish

   black and gold grunt found from Bermuda to Caribbean to Brazil

   Anisotremus surinamensis, black margate, pompon

   dusky grey food fish found from Louisiana and Florida southward

   Orthopristis chrysopterus, hogfish, pigfish

   found from Long Island southward

   porgy

   important deep-bodied food and sport fish of warm and tropical coastal waters; found worldwide

   European sea bream, Pagellus centrodontus

   food fish of European coastal waters

   Archosargus rhomboidalis, Atlantic sea bream

   sea bream of warm Atlantic waters

   Archosargus probatocephalus, sheepshead

   large (up to 20 lbs) food fish of the eastern coast of the United States and Mexico

   Lagodon rhomboides, pinfish, sailor's-choice, squirrelfish

   similar to sea bream; small spiny-finned fish found in bays along the southeastern coast of the United States

   Chrysophrys auratus, snapper

   Australian food fish having a pinkish body with blue spots

   Chrysophrys australis, black bream

   important dark-colored edible food and game fish of Australia

   drum, drumfish

   small to medium-sized bottom-dwelling food and game fishes of shallow coastal and fresh waters that make a drumming noise

   Sciaena antarctica, jewfish, mulloway

   large important food fish of Australia; almost indistinguishable from the maigre

   Sciaena aquila, maiger, maigre

   large European marine food fish

   croaker

   any of several fishes that make a croaking noise

   whiting

   any of several food fishes of North American coastal waters

   sea trout

   any of several sciaenid fishes of North American coastal waters

   Mullus surmuletus, goatfish, red mullet, surmullet

   brightly colored tropical fishes with chin barbels

   Mugil cephalus, striped mullet

   most important commercial mullet in eastern United States

   Mugil curema, white mullet

   silvery mullet of Atlantic and Pacific coasts

   Mugil liza, liza

   similar to the striped mullet and takes its place in the Caribbean region

   Bermuda chub, Kyphosus sectatrix, rudderfish

   food and game fish around Bermuda and Florida; often follow ships

   chaetodon

   any fish of the genus Chaetodon

   angelfish

   a butterfly fish of the genus Pomacanthus

   Holocanthus tricolor, rock beauty

   gold and black butterflyfish found from West Indies to Brazil

   Pomacentrus leucostictus, beaugregory

   a blue and yellow damselfish of Bermuda and Florida and the West Indies

   anemone fish

   live associated with sea anemones

   Abudefduf saxatilis, sergeant major

   large blue-grey black-striped damselfish; nearly worldwide

   Achoerodus gouldii, giant pigfish, pigfish

   found around the Great Barrier Reef

   Lachnolaimus maximus, hog snapper, hogfish

   large wrasse of western Atlantic; head of male resembles a pig's snout

   Halicoeres bivittatus, slippery dick

   small wrasse of tropical Atlantic

   Halicoeres radiatus, pudding-wife, puddingwife

   bluish and bronze wrasse; found from Florida keys to Brazil

   Thalassoma bifasciatum, bluehead

   small Atlantic wrasse the male of which has a brilliant blue head

   razor fish, razor-fish

   any of several small wrasses with compressed sharp-edged heads of the West Indies and Mediterranean

   Tautoga onitis, blackfish, tautog

   large dark-colored food fish of the Atlantic coast of North America

   Tautogolabrus adspersus, bergall, cunner

   common in north Atlantic coastal waters of the United States

   Polydactylus virginicus, barbu

   found along western Atlantic coast

   blenny, combtooth blenny

   small usually scaleless fishes with comb-like teeth living about rocky shores; are territorial and live in holes between rocks

   clinid, clinid fish

   mostly small blennioid fishes of coral reefs and seagrass beds

   pikeblenny

   tropical American fishes; males are aggressively defensive of their territory

   bracketed blenny, gunnel

   small eellike fishes common in shallow waters of the northern Atlantic

   prickleback

   small elongate fishes of shallow northern seas; a long dorsal fin consists entirely of spines

   Cryptacanthodes maculatus, ghostfish, wrymouth

   eellike Atlantic bottom fish with large almost vertical mouth

   catfish, wolf fish, wolffish

   large ferocious northern deep-sea food fishes with strong teeth and no pelvic fins

   eelpout, pout

   marine eellike mostly bottom-dwelling fishes of northern seas

   mudskipper, mudspringer

   found in tropical coastal regions of Africa and Asia; able to move on land on strong pectoral fins

   Acanthurus chirurgus, doctor-fish, doctorfish

   surgeon fish of the West Indies

   Gempylus serpens, snake mackerel

   predatory tropical fishes with jutting jaws and strong teeth

   Lepidocybium flavobrunneum, escolar

   large snake mackerel with rings like spectacles around its eyes

   Ruvettus pretiosus, oilfish

   very large deep-water snake mackerel

   mackerel

   any of various fishes of the family Scombridae

   tuna, tunny

   any very large marine food and game fish of the genus Thunnus; related to mackerel; chiefly of warm waters

   bonito

   any of various scombroid fishes intermediate in size and characteristics between mackerels and tunas

   Euthynnus pelamis, skipjack, skipjack tuna

   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 pelamis, bonito, oceanic bonito

   fish whose flesh is dried and flaked for Japanese cookery; may be same species as skipjack tuna

   Xiphias gladius, swordfish

   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

   sailfish

   large pelagic game fish having an elongated upper jaw and long dorsal fin that resembles a sail

   billfish

   giant warm-water game fish having a prolonged and rounded toothless upper jaw

   Luvarus imperialis, louvar

   large silvery fish found worldwide in warm seas but nowhere common; resembles a whale and feeds on plankton

   Poronotus triacanthus, dollarfish

   small food fish of Atlantic coast

   California pompano, Palometa simillima, palometa

   smaller than Florida pompano; common in West Indies

   Paprilus alepidotus, harvestfish

   butterfish up to a foot long of Atlantic waters from Chesapeake Bay to Argentina

   driftfish

   small (6 inches) tropical butterfishes found worldwide

   driftfish

   larger butterfishes of the western Atlantic from the New York area to the northern Gulf of Mexico

   squaretail

   sluggish square-tailed fish armored with tough bony scales; of deep warm waters

   Hyperglyphe perciformis, barrelfish, black rudderfish

   blackish fish of New England waters

   Gobiesox strumosus, skillet fish, skilletfish

   clingfish with typical skillet shape

   Atlantic tripletail, Lobotes surinamensis

   tripletail found from Cape Cod to northern South America

   Lobotes pacificus, Pacific tripletail

   tripletail found in the Pacific

   Gerres cinereus, yellowfin mojarra

   popular panfish from Bermuda and Gulf of Mexico to Brazil

   Eucinostomus gula, silver jenny

   silvery mojarra found along sandy shores of the western Atlantic

   type of:

   acanthopterygian, spiny-finned fish

   a teleost fish with fins that are supported by sharp inflexible rays