serranid

/ˈsɛrənəd/

Definitions of serranid

1. noun

   marine food sport fishes mainly of warm coastal waters
   synonyms: serranid fish

   types:

   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

   Synagrops bellus, blackmouth bass

   small marine fish with black mouth and gill cavity

   Centropristis philadelphica, rock bass, rock sea bass

   a kind of sea bass

   Centropistes striata, black bass, black sea bass

   bluish black-striped sea bass of the Atlantic coast of the United States

   Roccus saxatilis, rockfish, striped bass, striper

   marine food and game fish with dark longitudinal stripes; migrates upriver to spawn; sometimes placed in the genus Morone

   Polyprion americanus, stone bass, wreckfish

   brown fish of the Atlantic and Mediterranean found around rocks and shipwrecks

   Serranus subligarius, belted sandfish

   found in warm shallow waters of western Atlantic

   grouper

   usually solitary bottom sea basses of warm seas

   type of:

   percoid, percoid fish, percoidean

   any of numerous spiny-finned fishes of the order Perciformes