sciaenid

/saɪˈinɪd/

Definitions of sciaenid

1. noun

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

   types:

   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

   Equetus pulcher, striped drum

   a kind of drumfish

   Equetus lanceolatus, jackknife-fish

   black-and-white drumfish with an erect elongated dorsal fin

   Bairdiella chrysoura, mademoiselle, silver perch

   small silvery drumfish often mistaken for white perch; found along coasts of United States from New York to Mexico

   Sciaenops ocellatus, channel bass, red drum, redfish

   large edible fish found off coast of United States from Massachusetts to Mexico

   Atlantic croaker, Micropogonias undulatus

   a silvery-bodied croaker with dark markings and tiny barbels

   Umbrina roncador, surf fish, surffish, yellowfin croaker

   a fish of the Pacific coast of North America

   kingfish

   any of several food and game fishes of the drum family indigenous to warm Atlantic waters of the North American coast

   Menticirrhus americanus, king whiting

   whiting of the southeastern coast of North America

   Menticirrhus saxatilis, northern whiting

   whiting of the east coast of United States; closely resembles king whiting

   Menticirrhus undulatus, corbina

   bluish-grey whiting of California coast

   Menticirrhus littoralis, silver whiting

   a dull silvery whiting of southern Atlantic and Gulf Coasts of the United States

   Genyonemus lineatus, chenfish, kingfish, white croaker

   small silvery marine food fish found off California

   Seriphus politus, queenfish, white croaker

   silvery and bluish drumfish of shallow California coastal waters

   Cynoscion regalis, weakfish

   food and game fish of North American coastal waters with a mouth from which hooks easily tear out

   Cynoscion nebulosus, spotted sea trout, spotted squeateague, spotted weakfish

   weakfish of southern Atlantic and Gulf Coasts of United States

   type of:

   percoid, percoid fish, percoidean

   any of numerous spiny-finned fishes of the order Perciformes