squirefish

(Australia) Chrysophrys auratus, the Australasian snapper, an edible porgy found in the coastal waters of Philippines, Indonesia, China, Taiwan, Japan, New Zealand and Australia.


nannygai

Any of various fish found around Australia, of the families Lutjanidae, Berycidae, and Glaucosomatidae.


jobfish

Any of various fishes of the family Lutjanidae.


pomacentrid

(Ichthyology) Any of the Pomacentridae, a family of perciform fish comprising the damselfishes and clownfishes


bluestripe

(zoology, chiefly attributive) Any of various fishes or other animals bearing a blue stripe.


trachichthyid

(zoology) Any fish in the family Trachichthyidae.


monocentrid

(zoology) Any of the family Monocentridae of pinecone fishes.


acanthoclinid

(ichthyology) Any fish in the family Acanthoclinidae now considered the plesiopid subfamily Acanthoclininae, the longfins.


acanthurid

(ichthyology) Any fish in the family Acanthuridae of surgeonfishes, tangs, and unicornfishes.


achirid

(ichthyology) Any member of the Achiridae.


acipenserid

1989, Laurie J. Bryant, Non-dinosaurian Lower Vertebrates Across the Cretaceous-Tertiary Boundary in Northeastern Montana, Geological Sciences: Volume 134, University of California Press, page 17,
A second distinct acipenserid morphotype occurs in the Hell Creek and Tullock formations. It is not found in the Lance Formation in Wyoming, although acipenserids are so rare in the Lance Formation that this is possibly the result of sampling error.

While acipenserid outgroups lack any extensive scalation, the most distinctive hallmark of acipenserids is their scutes (Character 1).

1997, E. K. Findeis, “Osteology and phylogenetic relationships of sturgeons (Acipenseridae)”, in Vadim J. Birstein, John R. Waldman, William E. Bemis, editors, Sturgeon Biodiversity and Conservation, page 121:

Why is it that shortnose sturgeon - the far more residential of the two sturgeons - appears to nearly stop growing at adulthood and at a small size for an acipenserid whereas the more marine Atlantic sturgeon continues to grow and to a potentially massive size?

2006, J. R. Waldman, “Diadromous Fishes”, in Jeffrey S. Levinton, John R. Waldman, editors, The Hudson River Estuary, page 183:

(ichthyology) Any member of the Acipenseridae (the true sturgeons)


acropomatid

(ichthyology) Any member of the family Acropomatidae.


actinolepid

(zoology) Any of the extinct placoderms in the family Actinolepidae.


adrianichthyid

(Ichthyology) Any member of the Adrianichthyidae.


ageneiosid

(zoology) Any catfish in the family Ageneiosidae, which is now considered to be part of the family Auchenipteridae.


agonid

(ichthyology) Any member of the family Agonidae.


akysid

(ichthyology) Any member of the family Akysidae.


albulid

(ichthyology) Any member of the family Albulidae.


alepisaurid

(ichthyology) Any member of the family Alepisauridae, the lancetfishes.


alepocephalid

(ichthyology) Any fish in the family Alepocephalidae, the slickheads.


alestid

(ichthyology) Any member of the family Alestidae.


ambassid

(zoology) Any fish in the family Ambassidae.


amblycipitid

Any catfish in the family Amblycipitidae.


amblyopsid

(ichthyology) Any fish in the family Amblyopsidae: several species of North American cavefish, and the swampfish or ricefish.


xenacanthid

(paleontology) Any prehistoric shark of the family Xenacanthidae.


wuttagoonaspid

This view is not followed by Young (e.g., 1980, 2005c) who considered the wuttagoonaspids and the phyllolepids as close related taxa, […]

2008, Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, volume 28, numbers 1-3, page 17:

(zoology) Any placoderm of the family Wuttagoonaspidae.


xenisthmid

(zoology) Any fish in the family Xenisthmidae.


xiphiid

(zoology) A fish in the family Xiphiidae; a swordfish.


zeid

Most zeids have spiny projections or bucklers at the dorsal- and anal-fin bases and bony plates on the ventral surface of the abdomen.

2000, Jeffrey Martin Leis, Brooke M. Carson-Ewart, The Larvae of Indo-Pacific Coastal Fishes, page 186:

(ichthyology) Any fish in the family Zeidae.


ammodytid

Feeds initially on zooplankton, later small fish (clupeids and ammodytids) dominate the diet.

(Can we date this quote?), “Hyperoplus lanceolatus”, in Fishbase:

(zoology) Any member of the Ammodytidae.


amphiliid

(zoology) Any member of the Any catfish in the family Amphiliidae.


anabantid

Again, the emotions of jealousy and rivalry are manifested to such an extent by the anabantid betta pugnax of Siam, that the species has been cultivated by the inhabitants of the country for the sport they furnish, which for them vies in interest with the cock-fights and bull-fights of the Spanish peoples.

1883 June 30, “Animal Intelligence”, in The Critic, volume 3, number 77, page 300:

Anabantids are a very popular group of fish from Asia and Africa, most of which are known as gouramis.

2002, Alice Burkhart, Pocket Guide to the Care and Maintenance of Aquarium Fish, page 86:

Toxotid and anabantid fish from Southeast Asia project spouts of water toward prey above the surface of the water .

2011, Robert W. Shumaker, Animal Tool Behavior: The Use and Manufacture of Tools by Animals:

(zoology) Any member of the family Anabantidae of climbing perches.


anablepid

(zoology) Any fish in the family Anablepidae.


anacanthobatid

(zoology) Any skate in the family Anacanthobatidae.


anacoracid

(zoology) Any shark in the family Anacoracidae.


anarhichadid

(zoology) Any member of the Anarhichadidae.


anchariid

(zoology) Any catfish in the family Anchariidae.


anguillid

(zoology) Any member of the family Anguillidae of eels.


anomalopid

(zoology) Any of the family Anomalopidae of flashlight fishes.


anoplopomatid

(zoology) Any fish in the family Anoplopomatidae, the sablefish and skilfish.


anostomid

(zoology) Any fish in the family Anostomidae, one of several with fish known as headstanders.


anotopterid

(ichthyology) Any fish in the family Anotopteridae, the daggertooths.


antennariid

(zoology) Any fish in the family Antennariidae, the frogfish.


aphredoderid

(ichthyology) Any fish in the family Aphredoderidae, the pirate perches.


aploactinid

(zoology) Any fish in the family Aploactinidae.


aplocheilid

(zoology) Any killifish in the family Aplocheilidae.


aplochitonid

(zoology) Any fish in the family Aplochitonidae, now considered part of the family Galaxiidae.


apteronotid

(zoology) Any member of the family Apteronotidae, the ghost knifefishes.


aracanid

(zoology) Any member of the family Aracanidae of fish similar to boxfishes.


argentinid

(zoology) Any member of the family Argentinidae of herring smelts.


ariid

(zoology) Any member of the family Ariidae of catfishes.


arripid

(zoology) Any of the fish in the family Arripidae


artedidraconid

(zoology) Any fish in the family Artedidraconidae


aspidorhynchid

(zoology) Any of the extinct fish in the family Aspidorhynchidae


aspredinid

(zoology) Any member of the family Aspredinidae of banjo catfishes.


asterosteid

(zoology) Any of the extinct placoderm fish of the family Asterosteidae.


astroblepid

(zoology) Any of the catfish in the family Astroblepidae.


ateleopodid

(zoology) Any fish in the family Ateleopodidae.


atherinid

(ichthyology) Any fish in the family Atherinidae of silversides.


atherinopsid

(ichthyology) Any fish in the family Atherinopsidae.


auchenipterid

(zoology) Any catfish of the family Auchenipteridae.


aulopid

(ichthyology) Any fish in the family Aulopidae, the flagfins.


aulorhynchid

(zoology) Any member of the family Aulorhynchidae of gasterosteiform fish.


aulostomid

(zoology) Any of the family Aulostomidae of trumpetfishes.


bagrid

(zoology) Any in the family Bagridae pf naked catfishes.


balistid

(zoology) Any triggerfish in the family Balistidae.


balitorid

(zoology) Any of the hillstream loaches in the family Balitoridae.


banjosid

(zoology) Any member of the family Banjosidae, which contains only one known species: Banjos banjos (banjofish).


bathyclupeid

(zoology) Any fish in the family Bathyclupeidae.


bathydraconid

(zoology) Any fish in the family Bathydraconidae.


bathylagid

(zoology) Any fish in the family Bathylagidae.


bathymasterid

(zoology) Any fish in the family Bathymasteridae.


bathysaurid

(ichthyology) Any fish in the family Bathysauridae, the deepwater lizardfishes.


batrachoidid

From translingual Batrachoididae, from Ancient Greek βάτραχος (bátrakhos, “frog”).

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(zoology) Any fish in the family Batrachoididae, the toadfishes.


bedotiid

(ichthyology) Any fish in the family Bedotiidae.


belonid

(zoology) Any member of the family Belonidae of needlefishes.


belontiid

(zoology) Any gourami in the family Belontiidae, now considered to be the osphronemid subfamily Belontiinae.


bembrid

(zoology) Any fish in the family Bembridae.


berycid

(zoology) Any member of the family Berycidae, the squirrelfish.


bothid

1978, US Fish and Wildlife Service, Office of Biological Services, Development of Fishes of the Mid-Atlantic Bight, [page 125],
Accepting this classification, the bothids can be distinguished from the pleuronectids and the soles by usually having both eyes on the left side of the head.

Bothids are left-eyed flounders, that is, both eyes are found on the left side of the adults after metamorphosing from the more traditional one-eye-per-side mode as post-larvae.

1994, G. H. Burgess, S. H. Smith, E. D. Lane, “11: Fishes of the Cayman Islands”, in M. A. Brunt, J. E. Davies, editors, The Cayman Islands: Natural History and Biogeography, volume 71, page 222:

Among the flatfish, bothids are mainly found in deeper, less muddy situations while cynoglossids occur in shallower muddy areas.

1997, S. J. Blaber, Fish and Fisheries in Tropical Estuaries, page 106:

(zoology) Any of the species of the lefteye flounder family Bothidae.


botiid

(zoology) Any fish in the family Botiidae.


bovichtid

(zoology) Any fish of the family Bovichtidae.


brachaelurid

(zoology) Any shark of the family Brachaeluridae.


brachionichthyid

(zoology) Any anglerfish of the family Brachionichthyidae, the handfishes.


bramid

(zoology) Any fish in the family Bramidae, the pomfrets.


branchiostegid

(zoology) Any fish of the family Branchiostegidae, now considered the subfamily Latilinae of the family Malacanthidae of tilefishes.


bregmacerotid

(zoology) Any fish in the family Bregmacerotidae, the codlets.


bythitid

(zoology) Any fish in the family Bythitidae, the brotulas.


caesionid

(zoology) Any fish in the family Caesionidae.


callanthiid

(zoology) Any fish in the family Callanthiidae.


callichthyid

(zoology) Any catfish in the family Callichthyidae.


callionymid

(zoology) Any fish in the family Callionymidae, the dragonets.


callorhinchid

(zoology) Any fish in the family Callorhinchidae.


camuropiscid

(zoology) Any placoderm in the family Camuropiscidae.


canowindrid

(zoology) Any extinct fish in the family Canowindridae.


caproid

(zoology) Any member of family Caproidae of boarfishes.


caracanthid

(zoology) Any fish in the family Caracanthidae.


carapid

(zoology) Any fish in the family Carapidae; a pearlfish.


carcharhinid

The carcharhinids are rather large sharks, ranging from three to twelve feet in length.

1983, Richard Ellis, The Book of Sharks, Knopf, →ISBN, page 111:

Any member of the family Carcharhinidae of sharks.


caristiid

(zoology) Any fish in the family Caristiidae.


catostomid

(zoology) Any fish of the family Catostomidae


caulophrynid

(zoology) Any fish in the family Caulophrynidae of fanfins or hairy anglerfish.


centracanthid

(zoology) Any member of the family Centracanthidae of picarel fishes.


centrarchid

(zoology) Any member of the Centrarchidae, the freshwater sunfishes.


centriscid

(zoology) Any fish in the family Centriscidae.


centrolophid

(ichthyology) Any fish in the family Centrolophidae, the medusafishes.


centrophorid

(zoology) Any shark in the family Centrophoridae.


centropomid

Late larvae that will become herbivores, omnivores, or bottom fish, such as sparids, mugilids, pleuronectids, and soleids seem to be less particular about food and could be slightly easier to wean than more raptorial fish, such as centropomids, percithyids, and serranids (Kertouri, 1981; pers. obs.).

1998, John W. Tucker, Marine Fish Culture, page 336:

2009, David A. Milton, Chapter 9: Living in Two Worlds: Diadromous Fishes, and Factors Affecting Population Connectivity Between Tropical Rivers and Coasts, Ivan Nagelkerken (editor), Ecological Connectivity among Tropical Coastal Ecosystems, page 346,
Catadromous fish species such as centropomids can have enhanced survival and growth in years when larvae and juveniles from coastal spawning grounds access more productive freshwater habitats (Staunton-Smith et al. 2004).

2009, K. G. Smith, M. D. Diop, M. Niane, W. R. T. Darwall, The Status and Distribution of Freshwater Biodiversity in Western Africa, IUCN Red List, page 30,
This 'fishing down food webs' has been seen in the Ouèmè river in Benin, where large predatory centropomids and catfishes have been replaced by small catfish, cichlids and cyprinids (Helfman 2007).

(zoology) Any fish of the family Centropomidae.


cepolid

(zoology) Any member of the family Cepolidae of bandfish.


ceratiid

(zoology) Any fish in the family Ceratiidae.


ceratodontid

(ichthyology) Any fish in the family Neoceratodontidae (until recently known as family Ceratodontidae) (Australian lungfish or barramunda).


cetopsid

(ichthyology) Any catfish in the family Cetopsidae.


cetorhinid

(zoology) Any basking shark in the family Cetorhinidae.


chacid

(zoology) Any catfish in the family Chacidae.


chaenopsid

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translingual <i class="Latn mention" lang="mul">Chaenopsidae</i>

(zoology) Any fish in the family Chaenopsidae.


chaetodontid

(zoology)Any fish in the family Chaetodontidae.


champsodontid

(zoology) Any fish in the family Champsodontidae.


chandid

(zoology) Any fish in the family Chandidae, a synonym for the Ambassidae.


chanid

(zoology) Any fish in the family Chanidae, which has only one living species, the milkfish.


channichthyid

(zoology) Any fish in the family Channichthyidae.


channid

(zoology) Any member of the family Channidae of snakeheads.


characid

(zoology) Any fish in the family Characidae.


chaudhuriid

(zoology) Any fish in the family Chaudhuriidae.


chaunacid

(zoology) Any fish in the family Chaunacidae.


cheilodactylid

(zoology) Any fish in the family Cheilodactylidae, the morwongs.


chiasmodontid

(zoology) Any fish in the family Chiasmodontidae.


chilodontid

(zoology) Any fish in the family Chilodontidae, one of several related families of fish known as headstanders.


chimaerid

(zoology) Any fish in the family Chimaeridae of cartilaginous fish.


chirodipterid

(zoology) Any extinct lungfish in the family Chirodipteridae.


chironemid

(zoology) Any fish in the family Chironemidae; a kelpfish.


chlopsid

(zoology) Any eel in the family Chlopsidae.


chlorophthalmid

(ichthyology) Any fish in the family Chlorophthalmidae, the greeneyes.


chondrosteid

(zoology) Any extinct fish in the family Chondrosteidae, which is related to the sturgeons and paddlefish.


cirrhitid

(zoology) Any hawkfish in the family Cirrhitidae.


citharid

(zoology) Any fish in the family Citharidae.


citharinid

(zoology) Any fish in the family Citharinidae, the lutefish.


cladoselachid

(zoology) Any cartilaginous fish in the family Cladoselachidae.


clariid

(zoology) Any catfish in the family Clariidae.


claroteid

(zoology) Any catfish in the family Claroteidae.


clinid

(ichthyology) Any fish in the family Clinidae.


cobitid

(zoology) Any fish in the family Cobitidae.


coelacanthid

(zoology) Any of the extinct coelacanth fish in the family Coelacanthidae.


congiopodid

(zoology) Any fish in the family Congiopodidae.


congrid

(zoology) Any eel of the family Congridae.


cottid

(zoology) Any fish in the family Cottidae, the sculpins.


cottocomephorid

(zoology) Any fish in the family Cottocomephoridae.


cranoglanidid

(zoology) Any catfish in the family Cranoglanididae.


creediid

(zoology) Any fish in the family Creediidae.


crenuchid

(zoology) Any fish in the family Crenuchidae of South American darters.


cretoxyrhinid

(zoology) Any shark in the family Cretoxyrhinidae.


cryptacanthodid

(zoology) Any fish in the family Cryptacanthodidae.


curimatid

(zoology) Any fish in the family Curimatidae.


cybiid

(zoology) Any in the family Cybiidae, sometimes considered to be the scombrid subfamily Cybiinae.


cyclopterid

(zoology) Any fish in the family Cyclopteridae.


cyematid

(ichthyology) Any fish in the family Cyematidae, the bobtail snipe eels.


cynodontid

(zoology) Any fish in the family Cynodontidae.


cynoglossid

Cynoglossids are elongate and oval in profile, with eyes on left side of head, pectoral fins absent or represented by a membrane, and dorsal and anal fins confluent with caudal fin.

2006, John D. McEachran, Janice D. Fechhelm, Fishes of the Gulf of Mexico, volume 2, Scorpaeniformes to Tetraodontiformes, page 872:

Only the soleids, bothids and some species of cynoglossids constitute fishery resources of commercial importance in the area.

2008, Richard Millner, Stephen J. Walsh, Juan M. Díaz de Astarloa, “Chapter 11: Atlantic flatfish fisheries”, in Robin N. Gibson, editor, Flatfishes: Biology and Exploitation, page 250:

(zoology) Any species of the tonguefish family Cynoglossidae.


cyprinodontid

(zoology) Any fish in the family Cyprinodontidae, the pupfishes.


cyttid

(zoology) Any fish in the family Cyttidae.


dactylopterid

(zoology) Any fish in the family Dactylopteridae; the flying gurnards.


dactyloscopid

(ichthyology) Any fish in the family Dactyloscopidae.


dasyatid

(zoology) Any fish in the family Dasyatidae; a stingray.


denticipitid

(zoology) Any fish in the family Denticipitidae.


derichthyid

(zoology) Any eel in the family Derichthyidae.


diceratiid

(zoology) Any fish in the family Diceratiidae.


dinichthyid

(zoology) Any placoderm in the family Dinichthyidae.


diodontid

(zoology) Any member of the family Diodontidae of porcupine fish.


diplocercid

(zoology) Any extinct coelacanth fish in the family Diplocercidae.


diplomystid

(zoology) Any catfish in the family Diplomystidae.


dipnorhynchid

(zoology) Any extinct lungfish in the family Dipnorhynchidae.


diretmid

(zoology) Any fish in the family Diretmidae.


distichodontid

(zoology) Any fish of the family Distichodontidae


doradid

(zoology) Any catfish in the family Doradidae.


draconettid

(zoology) Any fish in the family Draconettidae.


dunkleosteid

(zoology) Any placoderm in the family Dunkleosteidae.


dussumieriid

(zoology) Any fish in the family Dussumieriidae, the round herrings.


echeneid

They are characterized by a unique cephalic sucking disc by which the echeneid attaches itself externally to its host.

2000, T. Trnski, J. M. Leis, “81: Echeneidae (Remoras)”, in Jeffrey Martin Leis, Brooke M. Carson-Ewart, editors, The Larvae of Indo-Pacific Coastal Fishes, page 518:

Postflexion stage, larvae, and juveniles of some echeneids have been illustrated by Richards (2005a).

2010, Kathleen Sabina Cole, Reproduction and Sexuality in Marine Fishes: Patterns and Processes, page 38:

With a force applied to their caudal peduncle, the echeneids generated suction pressure differentials averaging –92.7 kPa within the disk cavity while attached to Plexiglas.

2015, Hermann Ehrlich, Biological Materials of Marine Origin: Vertebrates, page 430:

Any fish of the family Echeneidae (the remoras or suckerfish).


echinorhinid

(zoology) Any shark in the family Echinorhinidae.


edestid

(zoology) Any extinct shark-like fish in the family Edestidae.


elassomatid

(zoology) Any fish in the family Elassomatidae, which has until recently been considered part of the Centrarchidae; a pigmy sunfish.


eleotrid

(zoology) Any member of species in the family Eleotridae of sleeper fishes.


emmelichthyid

(zoology) Any fish in the family Emmelichthyidae.


engraulid

(zoology) Any fish in the family Engraulidae; an anchovy.


ephippid

(ichthyology) Any fish in the family Ephippidae.


epigonid

deepwater cardinalfishes
deepwater cardinalfish#English

(zoology) Any member of the family Epigonidae: the deepwater cardinalfishes.


erethistid

(zoology) Any catfish in the family Erethistidae.


erythrinid

(zoology) Any fish in the family Erythrinidae.


esocid

(zoology) Any fish of the family Esocidae, the pikes


etmopterid

(zoology) Any shark in the family Etmopteridae.


eurypharyngid

Clipping of translingual Eurypharyngidae

translingual <i class="Latn mention" lang="mul">Eurypharyngidae</i>

(ichthyology) Any fish in the family Eurypharyngidae, the pelican eels.


evermannellid

(ichthyology) Any fish in the family Evermannellidae, the sabertooth fishes.


exocoetid

(zoology) Any fish in the family Exocoetidae; a flying fish.


fistulariid

(zoology) Any fish in the family Fistulariidae of cornetfishes.


fundulid

(zoology) Any fish in the family Fundulidae.


gadid

(zoology) Any member of the family Gadidae of fish such as cod and pollack.


galeorhinid

(zoology) Any shark in the family Galeorhinidae, now considered to be the triakid subfamily Galeorhininae.


gasteropelecid

(zoology) Any fish in the family Gasteropelecidae.


gasterosteid

(zoology) Any fish in the Gasterosteidae; a stickleback.


gempylid

He also placed Lepidocybium Gill 1862 as the sister group of all the other gempylids and trichiurids.

1998, The Museum, Contributions in Science, numbers 469-480, page 4:

The larvae most likely to be confused with trichiurids are paralepidids and gempylids.

2000, F. J. Gago, J. M. Leis, T. Trnski, “111: Trichiuridae”, in Jeffrey Martin Leis, Brooke M. Carson-Ewart, editors, The Larvae of Indo-Pacific Coastal Fishes, page 704:

The gempylids, or snake mackerels, are a small group of predatory oceanic or pelagic fish.

2002, S. S. Deshpande, Handbook of Food Toxicology, page 696:

(zoology) Any fish of the escolar family, Gempylidae.


geotriid

(zoology) Any fish in the family Geotriidae.


gerreid

(zoology) Any fish in the family Gerreidae, the mojarras.


gigantactinid

(zoology) Any fish in the family Gigantactinidae.


giganturid

(ichthyology) Any fish in the family Giganturidae, the telescopefish.


ginglymostomatid

(zoology) Any nurse shark of the family Ginglymostomatidae


glaucosomatid

(zoology) Any fish in the family Glaucosomatidae.


gnathorhizid

(zoology) Any extinct lungfish in the family Gnathorhizidae.


gobiesocid

(zoology) Any fish of the family Gobiesocidae of clingfish.


gobiid

(zoology) Any member of the family Gobiidae, the gobies.


gonorynchid

(zoology) Any fish in the family Gonorynchidae; a beaked salmon.


gonostomatid

(ichthyology) Any fish in the family Gonostomatidae.


goodeid

(zoology) Any fish in the family Goodeidae, the splitfins.


grammatid

(zoology) Any fish in the family Grammatidae.


grammicolepidid

1956, Stanford Ichthyological Bulletin, Volume 7, Division of Systematic Biology, Stanford University, page 91,
However, the peculiar Grammicolepididae may be rather closely allied to the Oreosomatidae, and the spikes or hooks seen on the sides of some grammicolepidids (see especially Barnard, 1940, p. 11 and plate, on Xenolepidichthys americanus in South Africa) may be the homologues of the "hills" of Oreosoma.

Only zanclids, caproids, luvarids, menids, grammicolepidids and perhaps siganids and leiognathids have larvae that could be confused with acanthurids.

2004, Jeffrey M. Leis, Brooke M. Carson-Ewart, The Larvae of Indo-Pacific Coastal Fishes: An Identification Guide to Marine Fish Larvae, page 681:

2005, J. G. Ditty, Chapter 105: Families Parazenidae, Zeniontidae, Zeidae, Oreosomatidae, & Grammicolepidae, William J. Richards (editor), Early Stages of Atlantic Fishes: An Identification Guide for the Western Central North Atlantic, Volume 2, page 1109,
Grammicolepidids have dorsoventrally elongate linear scales rather than the cycloid or ctenoid scales of other zeiform families.

(zoology) Any of the deep-sea fish of the family Grammicolepididae.


grammistid

(zoology) Any fish in the family Grammistidae, now considered to be the serranid tribe Grammistini or subfamily Grammistinae.


gymnarchid

(ichthyology) Any fish in the family Gymnarchidae, consisting of a single species: the aba or African knifefish.


gymnotid

(zoology) Any member of the Gymnotidae; a naked-back knifefish.


gymnurid

(zoology) Any fish in the family Gymnuridae.


gyrinocheilid

(zoology) Any fish in the family Gyrinocheilidae.


haemulid

(zoology) Any fish in the family Haemulidae, the grunts.


halosaurid

(zoology) Any fish in the family Halosauridae.


harpagiferid

(zoology) Any fish in the family Harpagiferidae.


hemigaleid

(zoology) Any fish in the family Hemigaleidae.


hemiodontid

(zoology) Any fish in the family Hemiodontidae.


hemiramphid

(zoology) Any fish in the family Hemiramphidae; a halfbeak.


hemiscylliid

(zoology) Any of the family Hemiscylliidae of sharks.


hemitripterid

(zoology) Any fish in the family Hemitripteridae.


heptapterid

(zoology) Any catfish in the family Heptapteridae.


heterenchelyid

(zoology) Any eel in the family Heterenchelyidae.


heteropneustid

(zoology) Any catfish in the family Heteropneustidae.


hexagrammid

(ichthyology) Any member of the family Hexagrammidae of greenlings.


himantolophid

(zoology) Any fish in the family Himantolophidae.


hiodontid

(ichthyology) Any fish in the family Hiodontidae, the mooneyes.


histiopterid

(zoology) Any fish in the family Histiopteridae, now considered to be the pentacerotid subfamily Histiopterinae.


holocentrid

(zoology) Any member of the family Holocentridae of squirrelfishes and soldierfishes.


holoptychiid

(zoology) Any extinct fish in the family Holoptychiidae.


hoplichthyid

(zoology) Any fish in the family Hoplichthyidae.


hybodontid

(zoology) Any shark in the family Hybodontidae.


hypopomid

(zoology) Any knifefish in the family Hypopomidae.


hypoptychid

(zoology) Any member of the family Hypoptychidae of gasterosteiform fish.


hypsidorid

(zoology) Any extinct catfish in the family Hypsidoridae.


icelid

(zoology) Any fish in the family Icelidae, which is now generally considered to be part of the family Cottidae.


ichthyodectid

(zoology) Any member of the family †Ichthyodectidae of extinct predatory fish principally of the Cretaceous.


icosteid

(zoology) Any ragfish in the family Icosteidae.


ictalurid

(zoology) Any catfish in the family Ictaluridae.


idiacanthid

(zoology) Any fish in the stomiid subfamily Idiacanthinae.


indostomid

(zoology)Any fish in the family Indostomidae.


inermiid

(zoology)Any fish in the family Inermiidae, a synonym of the Haemulidae.


ipnopid

(ichthyology) Any fish in the family Ipnopidae, the deepsea tripod fish.


istiophorid

(ichthyology) Any fish in the family Istiophoridae, the marlins.


katsuwonid

(zoology) Any fish in the family Katsuwonidae, a synonym of the Scombridae.


kneriid

(zoology) Any gonorynchiform fish in the family Kneriidae.


kraemeriid

(zoology) Any fish in the family Kraemeriidae, the sand gobies.


kuhliid

(zoology) Any fish in the family Kuhliidae, the flagtails.


kurtid

(zoology) Any nurseryfish in the family Kurtidae.


kyphosid

The kyphosids are today one of the most primitive percosid families.

1967, Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology, volume 135, page 50:

A few apogonids are similarly shaped and pigmented, but none are as robust as kyphosids, and all have a prominent gas bladder and a divided dorsal fin with fewer elements. Heavily pigmented perciform larvae such as Iatids and toxotids have different skin meristics and smaller head spines than kyphosids.

2000, H. J. Walker Jr., F. J. Neira, A. G. Miskiewicz, B. M. Carson-Ewart, “74: Kyphosidae (Rudderfishes, Sea Chubs)”, in Jeffrey Martin Leis, Brooke M. Carson-Ewart, editors, The Larvae of Indo-Pacific Coastal Fishes: An identification guide to marine fish larvae, page 467:

Siganids and kyphosids are less speciose than scarines and acanthurids, and are more conservative in their feeding habitats (Choat 1991, Choat et al 2002).

2009, Alison L. Green, David R. Bellwood, Monitoring Functional Groups of Herbivorous Reef Fishes as Indicators of Coral Reef Resilience, page 21:

(ichthyology) Any of the perciform fish of the family Kyphosidae (the sea chubs).


labrisomid

(ichthyology) Any fish in the family Labrisomidae.


lactariid

(zoology) Any fish in the family Lactariidae.


lamnid

(zoology) Any shark in the family Lamnidae.


lamprid

(ichthyology) Any fish in the family Lamprididae, the opahs.


latimerid

(ichthyology) Any fish in the family Latimeridae, the coelacanths.


latrid

(zoology) Any fish in the family Latridae.


lebiasinid

(zoology) Any fish in the family Lebiasinidae.


leiognathid

(zoology) Any fish in the family Leiognathidae.


lepidosirenid

(ichthyology) Any fish in the family Lepidosirenidae, the South American lungfish.


lepisosteid

(zoology) Any fish in the family Lepisosteidae; a gar.


leptochariid

(zoology) Any fish in the family Leptochariidae.


leptoscopid

(zoology) Any fish in the family Leptoscopidae.


lethrinid

(zoology) Any fish in the family Lethrinidae.


linophrynid

(zoology)Any fish in the family Linophrynidae.


lobotid

(zoology) Any fish in the family Lobotidae; a tripletail.


lophotid

(ichthyology) Any fish in the family Lophotidae, the crestfish or unicornfish.


loricariid

(zoology) Any catfish in the family Loricariidae.


lotid

(zoology) Any member of the family Lotidae of lings and similar fish.


luciocephalid

(zoology) Any gourami in the family Luciocephalidae, now considered to be the osphronemid subfamily Luciocephalinae.


macristiid

(zoology) Any fish in the obsolete family Macristiidae, which turned out to be a collection of misidentified larval aulopiforms.


macropetalichthyid

(zoology) Any placoderm in the family Macropetalichthyidae.


macroramphosid

(zoology) Any fish in the family Macroramphosidae.


macrosemiid

(zoology) Any fish in the extinct family Macrosemiidae.


maenid

(zoology) Any member of the family Maenidae (now Centracanthidae) of picarel fishes.


malacanthid

(zoology) Any in the family Malacanthidae of tilefishes.


mastacembelid

(zoology) Any fish in the family Mastacembelidae.


mawsoniid

(zoology) Any extinct coelacanth in the family Mawsoniidae.


megalichthyid

(zoology) Any extinct fish in the family Megalichthyidae.


megalopid

(ichthyology) Any fish in the family Megalopidae.


melamphaid

(zoology) Any fish in the family Melamphaidae.


melanocetid

(zoology) Any fish in the family Melanocetidae.


melanonid

(zoology) Any member of the family Melanonidae of deep-sea fish.


melanotaeniid

(ichthyology) Any fish in the family Melanotaeniidae, the rainbowfishes.


menid

(zoology) Any fish in the family Menidae, the moonfishes.


microdesmid

(zoology) Any fish in the family Microdesmidae, the wormfishes and dartfishes.


microstomatid

(zoology) Any fish in the family Microstomatidae.


mitsukurinid

(zoology) Any member of the family Mitsukurinidae, a goblin shark.


mobulid

(zoology) Any member of the subfamily Mobulinae, in family Myliobatidae (sometimes family Mobulidae), the manta rays and devil rays.


monacanthid

(zoology) Any in the family Monacanthidae of filefishes.


monodactylid

(zoology) Any fish in the family Monodactylidae.


monognathid

(ichthyology) Any fish in the family Monognathidae, the onejaws.


mordaciid

(zoology) Any member of the family Mordaciidae of lampreys or the generally equivalent subfamily Mordaciinae of family Petromyzontidae.


moringuid

(zoology) Any in the family Moringuidae of eels.


moronid

(zoology) Any in the family Moronidae of temperate basses.


mugilid

(zoology) Any member of the family Mugilidae of grey mullets.


muraenesocid

(zoology) Any eel in the family Muraenesocidae.


muraenid

The posterior nostril in xenocongrids lies immediately before the center of the eye, on the outside of the upper lip, or inside the confines of the mouth; in the muraenids, it nearly always lies above the eye.

1993, James E. Böhlke, Charles C. G. Chaplin, Fishes of the Bahamas and Adjacent Tropical Waters, page 70:

(zoology) Any eel in the family Muraenidae.


muraenolepidid

(zoology) Any fish in the family Muraenolepididae.


myliobatid

(zoology) Any member of the family Myliobatidae of eagle rays.


nandid

(zoology) Any leaffish in the family Nandidae.


narcinid

(zoology) Any fish in the family Narcinidae.


narkid

(zoology) Any fish in the family Narkidae.


nematistiid

(zoology) Any in the family Nematistiidae of roosterfish.


nemichthyid

(zoology) Any eel in the family Nemichthyidae.


nemipterid

(zoology) Any fish in the family Nemipteridae.


neoceratiid

(zoology) Any fish in the family Neoceratiidae.


neoscopelid

(zoology) Any fish in the family Neoscopelidae, such as the blackchin.


nettastomatid

(zoology) Any eel in the family Nettastomatidae.


nomeid

(ichthyology) Any fish in the family Nomeidae, the driftfishes.


notacanthid

(ichthyology) Any fish in the family Notacanthidae, the deep-sea spiny eels.


notocheirid

(Ichthyology) Any member of the family Notocheiridae, the surf sardines.


notopterid

(ichthyology) Any fish in the family Notopteridae, the featherbacks.


notosudid

(ichthyology) Any fish in the family Notosudidae, the waryfishes.


nototheniid

(zoology) Any fish in the family Nototheniidae of cod icefishes.


odontaspidid

(zoology) Any shark in the family Odontaspididae.


odontobutid

(zoology) Any fish in the family Odontobutidae.


olyrid

(zoology) Any catfish in the family Olyridae, which may be a synonym for the Bagridae.


omosudid

(ichthyology) Any fish in the family Omosudidae, which consists of a single known species, the deep-sea hammerjaw, Omosudis lowii.


oneirodid

(zoology) Any fish of the family Oneirodidae.


onychodontid

(zoology) Any extinct fish the family Onychodontidae


ophichthid

(zoology) Any eel in the family Ophichthidae.


opisthognathid

From opistho- + Ancient Greek γνάθος (gnáthos, “jaw”) + -id.

(zoology) Any jawfish in the family Opistognathidae.


opisthoproctid

(zoology) Any fish in the family Opisthoproctidae; a barreleye.


oplegnathid

(zoology) Any fish in the family Oplegnathidae.


orectolobid

(zoology) Any shark in the family Orectolobidae.


oreosomatid

(zoology) Any fish in the family Oreosomatidae.


oxynotid

(zoology) Any shark in the family Oxynotidae.


orodontid

(zoology) Any extinct cartilaginous fish in the family Orodontidae.


osmerid

Getting back to feeding, we found it convenient at Point Mugu to use two forms of fish: the smaller osmerids for training purposes (they are cleaner than cut fish), and mackerel.

1966, Kenneth Stafford Norris, Whales, Dolphins, and Porpoises, page 663:

She proved the independence of the evolutionary development of osmerids and plecoglossids which form an independent suborder and clearly outlined main traits of similarity and difference of the Salmonoidei and the osmerids.

1997, Journal of Ichthyology, volume 37, page 207:

Osmerids are generally small, silvery, elongate fishes that swim in the water column.

2009, Gene Helfman, Bruce B. Collette, Douglas E. Facey, Brian W. Bowen, The Diversity of Fishes: Biology, Evolution, and Ecology, page 279:

(zoology) Any fish of the family Osmeridae, a smelt.


osphronemid

(zoology) Any gourami in the family Osphronemidae.


osteoglossid

(ichthyology) Any fish in the family Osteoglossidae, the arowanas.


osteolepid

(zoology) Any osteolepidid fish in the family Osteolepidae


ostraciid

(zoology) Any fish in the family the Ostraciidae.


otodontid

(zoology) Any extinct shark in the family Otodontidae.


pachycormid

(zoology) Any extinct fish in the family Pachycormidae.


pangasiid

(zoology) Any catfish in the family Pangasiidae.


pantodontid

(ichthyology) Any fish in the family Pantodontidae.


parabrotulid

(zoology) Any fish in the family Parabrotulidae.


paralepidid

(zoology) Any barracudina in the family Paralepididae.


paralichthyid

(zoology) Any flounder in the family Paralichthyidae.


parascylliid

(zoology) Any shark in the family Parascylliidae.


parodontid

(zoology) Any fish in the family Parodontidae.


pataecid

(zoology) Any fish in the family Pataecidae.


pegasid

Named for one of the earliest-discovered exoplanets, 51 Pegasi b, which was discovered in the constellation Pegasus in 1995.


pempherid

(zoology) Any member of the family Pempheridae of fish called sweepers.


pentacerotid

(zoology) Any fish in the family Pentacerotidae.


percichthyid

(zoology) Any fish in the family Percichthyidae.


percid

(zoology) Any fish in the family Percidae, the perches and darters.


percophid

(zoology) Any fish in the family Percophidae.


percopsid

These are, the Etheostomids or stone-toters; the Centrarchids or sun-fishes, and kindred forms; the Hyodontids or gizzard-shads; the Percopsids; the Aphredoderids; the Amblyopsids, (blind and cave fishes;) the Amiids or bow-fins, and the Lepidosteids, or alligator gars.

1867, United States. Dept. of Agriculture, Report of the Commissioner of Agriculture for the Year 1866, page 405:

There are, in fact, with the exception of one Percopsid in the Columbia River, no representatives of most of the families which give the stamp of peculiarity to the Union's population; the Etheostomine and indeed all other Percids are wanting, and only a single species of Centrarchids--the Perch of the Sacramento (Archoplites interruptus)--has found its way across the mountains.

1903, George Brown Goode, American Fishes: A Popular Treatise Upon the Game and Food Fishes of North America:

The two Green River percopsids were described in detail in Rosen and Patterson (1969), and the placement of these two species in Percopsidae was verified more recently by Patterson and Rosen (1989).

2001, Gregg F. Gunnell, Eocene Biodiversity: Unusual Occurrences and Rarely Sampled Habitats, page 27:

(ichthyology) Any fish in the family Percopsidae, including two living species containing trout-perches and sand rollers


peristediid

(zoology) Any fish in the family Peristediidae.


phallostethid

(zoology) Any fish in the family Phallostethidae.


phlyctaeniid

(zoology) Any placoderm in the family Phlyctaeniidae.


pholid

From Ancient Greek φολῐ́ς (pholĭ́s, “horny scale”).

uder

(zoology) Any fish in the family Pholidae.


pholidichthyid

(zoology) Any fish in the family Pholidichthyidae.


phosichthyid

(zoology) Any fish in the family Phosichthyidae.


phractolaemid

(zoology) Any fish in the family Phractolaemidae.


pimelodid

(zoology) Any catfish in the family Pimelodidae.


pinguipedid

(zoology) Any fish in the family Pinguipedidae.


platycephalid

(zoology) Any fish in the family Platycephalidae.


platyrhinid

(zoology) Any fish in the family Platyrhinidae.


platytroctid

(zoology) Any fish in the family Platytroctidae; the tubeshoulders.


plecoglossid

1984, Excerpta Medica, Section 3: Endocrinology, Volume 51, page 251,
Furthermore, the antibody to sPRL reacted only with PRL cells in the pituitaries of three species of salmonids, a plecoglossid, eel, carp, goldfish, killifish, tilapia, and five species of marine fishes, […] .

1986, Southwest Fisheries Center (U.S.), Collected Reprints, Issue 1, page 370,
Iwai & Rosenthal (1981), and Watanabe (1984b) have observed ciliated cells and cilia movement that aid in the transport of food in the alimentary canals of some plecoglossid, osmerid, clupeid, and salangid larvae.

Families included here include prototroctids, most diadromous galaxiids, a plecoglossid, mugiloidid, and some eleotrids and gobiids.

1988, Robert Montgomery McDowall, Diadromy in Fishes, page 33:

(zoology) Any fish of the family Plecoglossidae (sometimes regarded as a subfamily, Plecoglossinae in Osmeridae); the ayu or sweetfish.


plesiopid

(zoology) Any longfin in the family Plesiopidae.


pleuronectid

2006, Larry G. Allen, Daniel J. Pondella II, Chapter 4: Ecological Classification, Larry G. Allen, Michael H. Horn (editors), The Ecology of Marine Fishes: California and Adjacent Waters, 105,
The rockfishes also dominated both the deep northern and southern habitats along with pleuronectids.

Two fish species were found in the diet, with juvenile pleuronectids the most common.

2008, M. Elliott, K. L. Hemingway, M. J. Costello, S. Duhamel, K. Hostens, M. Labropoulou, S. Marshall, H. Winkler, “Chapter 4: Links between Fish and Other Trophic Levels”, in M. Elliott, Krystal L. Hemingway, editors, Fishes in Estuaries, page 152:

The dynamics of those fishes that supported extensive multi-national fisheries in northern temperate and boreal waters (mainly gadids, clupeoids and pleuronectids) became a research priority (Beverton 1992).

2009, J. H. Choat, J. P. Kritzer, J. L. Ackerman, “2. Ageing in Coral Reef Fishes: Do We Need to Validate the Periodicity of Increment Formation for Every Species of Fish for which We Collect Age-based Demographic Data?”, in Bridget S. Geen, Bruce D. Mapstone, Gary Carlos, Gavin A. Begg, editors, Tropical Fish Otoliths, page 24:

(zoology, ichthyology) Any species of the family Pleuronectidae.


plotosid

(zoology) Any catfish in the family Plotosidae.


poeciliid

From translingual Poecilia, from ποικίλος (poikílos, “many-colored, variegated”) + -id, after translingual Poeciliidae.

(zoology) Any fish in the family Poeciliidae.


polycentrid

(zoology) Any leaffish in the family Polycentridae.


polymixiid

(zoology) Any beardfish in the family Polymixiidae.


polyodontid

(ichthyology) Any fish in the family Polyodontidae, the paddlefishes.


polyprionid

(zoology) Any fish in the family Polyprionidae.


polypterid

(ichthyology) Any fish in the family Polypteridae, the bichirs and reedfish.


pomacanthid

(zoology) Any marine angelfish in the family Pomacanthidae.


pomadasyid

(zoology) Any grunt in the family Pomadasyidae, a synonym of the Haemulidae.


pomatomid

(zoology) Any fish in the family Pomatomidae, which has only one living species, the bluefish.


potamotrygonid

(zoology) Any fish in the family Potamotrygonidae.


priacanthid

(zoology) Any fish in the family Priacanthidae.


pristid

(zoology) Any fish in the family Pristidae; a sawfish.


pristigasterid

(zoology) Any fish in the family Pristigasteridae.


pristiophorid

(zoology) Any shark in the family Pristiophoridae.


prochilodontid

(zoology) Any fish in the family Prochilodontidae.


profundulid

(zoology) Any fish in the family Profundulidae.


proscylliid

(zoology) Any fish in the family Proscylliidae.


protopterid

(ichthyology) Any fish in the family Protopteridae, the African lungfishes.


psammosteid

Any extinct fish in the family Psammosteidae, which lived in the Devonian.


psettodid

(zoology) Any flatfish in the family Psettodidae.


pseudocarchariid

(zoology) Any shark in the family Pseudocarchariidae.


pseudochromid

(zoology) Any fish in the family Pseudochromidae; a dottyback.


pseudomugilid

(zoology) Any member of the Pseudomugilidae.


pseudopimelodid

(zoology) Any catfish in the family Pseudopimelodidae.


pseudotriakid

(zoology) Any member of the family Pseudotriakidae of false catsharks.


pseudotrichonotid

(ichthyology) Any fish in the family Pseudotrichonotidae, the sand-diving lizardfishes.


psilorhynchid

(zoology) Any fish in the family Psilorhynchidae.


ptereleotrid

(zoology) Any fish in the family Ptereleotridae, the dartfishes.


ptilichthyid

(zoology) Any fish in the family Ptilichthyidae.


ptychodontid

(zoology) Any shark in the family Ptychodontidae.


rachycentrid

(zoology) Any fish in the family Rachycentridae.


rajid

Pristis is no longer indicated to be sister to all extant batoids except torpediniforms and may be a member of a clade including guitarfishes and rajids.

2012, Jeffrey C. Carrier, Biology of Sharks and Their Relatives, CRC Press, page 80:

(zoology) Any fish in the family Rajidae; a skate.


ranicipitid

(zoology) Any fish in the species Raniceps raninus, formerly classified as the separate family Ranicipitidae, but now considered to be part of the Gadidae.


regalecid

(ichthyology) Any fish in the family Regalecidae, the oarfishes.


retropinnid

(zoology) Any member of the family Retropinnidae; smelts of Australia and New Zealand.


rhamphichthyid

(zoology) Any fish in the family Rhamphichthyidae.


rhincodontid

(zoology) Any whale shark in the family Rhincodontidae.


rhinid

(zoology) Any fish in the family Rhinidae.


rhinobatid

(zoology) Any fish in the family Rhinobatidae.


rhinochimaerid

(zoology) Any fish in the family Rhinochimaeridae.


rhizodontid

(zoology)Any extinct fish in the family Rhizodontidae.


rhyacichthyid

(zoology) Any fish in the family Rhyacichthyidae.


rhynchobatid

(zoology) Any wedgefish in the family Rhynchobatidae, a synonym of the Rhinidae.


rhynchodipterid

(zoology) Any extinct lungfish in the family Rhynchodipteridae.


rivulid

(zoology) Any fish in the family Rivulidae.


rondeletiid

(zoology) Any whalefish in the family Rondeletiidae.


saccopharyngid

(ichthyology) Any in the family Saccopharyngidae of gulper eels.


salangid

(zoology) Any member of the family Salangidae of icefishes and noodlefishes.


saurichthyid

(zoology) Any extinct fish in the family Saurichthyidae.


scatophagid

(ichthyology) Any fish in the family Scatophagidae.


schindleriid

(zoology) Any fish in the family Schindleriidae.


umbrid

(zoology) Any member of the family Umbridae of mudminnows and close relatives.


uranoscopid

(zoology) Any fish in the family Uranoscopidae.


urolophid

(zoology) Any fish in the family Urolophidae.


veliferid

(ichthyology) Any fish in the family Veliferidae, the velifers or sailfin moonfish.


sclerorhynchid

(zoology) Any extinct cartilaginous fish in the family Sclerorhynchidae.


scomberesocid

(zoology) Any fish in the family Scomberesocidae of sauries.


scombrolabracid

(zoology) Any fish in the family Scombrolabracidae. which consists only of the species Scombrolabrax heterolepis.


scombropid

(zoology) Any fish in the family Scombropidae, the gnomefish.


scopelarchid

(ichthyology) Any fish in the family Scopelarchidae, the pearleyes.


scophthalmid

(zoology) Any fish in the family Scophthalmidae, the turbots.


scorpaenid

(zoology) Any fish in the family Scorpaenidae, a scorpionfish.


scyliorhinid

(zoology) Any shark in the family Scyliorhinidae.


scytalinid

(zoology) Any member of the family Scytalinidae of very slender burrowing fish called graveldivers.


selenosteid

(zoology) Any placoderm in the family Selenosteidae.


serranid

The groupers, hinds and many related serranids are well-known for their rather unusual reproductive styles.

2000, Yvonne Sadovy, Andrew S. Cornish, Reef Fishes of Hong Kong, page 46:

Conservation measures that are targeted specifically at protecting serranids and take into account their reproductive traits have proven successful.

2007, Gene S. Helfman, Fish Conservation, page 46:

As noted above, the serranids are the largest group in terms of species numbers.

2008, J. S. Kenny, The Biological Diversity of Trinidad and Tobago: A Naturalist's Notes, page 72:

(zoology) Any fish of the family Serranidae.


serrasalmid

(zoology) Any characin in the family Serrasalmidae.


serrivomerid

(zoology) Any eel in the family Serrivomeridae.


siganid

(ichthyology) Any of the family Siganidae of rabbitfishes.


sillaginid

(zoology) Any in the family Sillaginidae of fishes.


soleid

A similar character also appears in the Soleidae, but is never covered by lower lip in that family; soleids do not occur in the Neotropics.

2003, Roberto E. Reis, Sven O. Kullander, Carl J. Ferraris, Check List of the Freshwater Fishes of South and Central America, page 666:

Larvae of the flatfish family Soleidae most closely resemble tonguefish larvae but the smaller jaws and more attenuated body shape in cynoglossids serves to distinguish them from larval soleids.

2005, T. W. Farooqi, R. F. Shaw, J. G. Ditty, J. Lyczkowski-Shultz, “Chapter 207: Cynoglossidae: Tongue fishes”, in William J. Richards, editor, Early Stages of Atlantic Fishes, page 2368:

The oldest soleids, Eobuglossus eocenicus and Turahbuglossus cuvillieri, both known from single specimens from the Upper Lutetian of Egypt (Chabanaud 1937; Chanet 1994, 1997), are also among the first known flatfish fossils and they are identical to skeletons of recent soleids.

2008, Thomas A. Monroe, “Chapter 2: Systematic diversity of the Pleuronectiformes”, in Robin N. Gibson, editor, Flatfishes: Biology and Exploitation, page 14:

(zoology) Any species of the family Soleidae.


solenostomid

(zoology) Any fish in the family Solenostomidae.


somniosid

(zoology) Any shark in the family Somniosidae.


sphyraenid

(zoology) Any barracuda in the family Sphyraenidae.


squalorajid

(zoology) Any extinct chimaera in the family Squalorajidae.


squatinid

(zoology) Any in the family Squatinidae of sharks.


stephanoberycid

(zoology) Any pricklefish in the family Stephanoberycidae.


sternoptychid

(zoology) Any fish in the family Sternoptychidae (marine hatchetfishes).


sternopygid

(zoology) Any knifefish in the family Sternopygidae.


stethacanthid

(zoology) Any holocephalan fish in the family Stethacanthidae.


stichaeid

(zoology) Any fish in the family Stichaeidae; a prickleback or a shanny.


stromateid

(ichthyology) Any fish in the family Stromateidae, the butterfishes.


stylephorid

(zoology) Any deep-sea fish in the family Stylephoridae.


symmoriid

(zoology) Any extinct cartilaginous fish in the family Symmoriidae.


symphysanodontid

(zoology) Any fish in the family Symphysanodontidae.


synanceiid

(zoology) Any fish in the family Synanceiidae.


synaphobranchid

(zoology) Any eel in the family Synaphobranchidae.


synbranchid

(zoology) Any eel-like fish in the family Synbranchidae.


synodontid

(ichthyology) Any fish in the family Synodontidae, the lizardfishes.


telmatherinid

(zoology) Any fish in the family Telmatherinidae.


terapontid

(zoology) Any fish in the family Terapontidae.


tetragonurid

(ichthyology) Any fish in the family Tetragonuridae, the squaretails.


tetraodontid

(zoology) Any fish of the family Tetraodontidae.


tetrarogid

(zoology) Any fish in the family Tetrarogidae.


thaumatichthyid

(zoology) Any fish in the family Thaumatichthyidae.


titanichthyid

(zoology) Any placoderm in the family Titanichthyidae.


torpedinid

(zoology) Any fish in the family Torpedinidae.


toxotid

(zoology) Any member of the family Toxotidae of archerfish.


trachinid

(zoology) Any fish in the family Trachinidae.


trachipterid

(ichthyology) Any fish in the family Trachipteridae, the ribbonfishes.


trachypterid

(zoology) Any member of the family Trachypteridae of ribbonfish.


triacanthid

(zoology) Any fish in the family Triacanthidae.


triacanthodid

(zoology) Any fish in the family Triacanthodidae.


triakid

(zoology) Any shark in the family Triakidae.


trichiurid

(zoology) Any member of the Trichiuridae; a cutlassfish.


trichodontid

(zoology) Any member of the family Trichodontidae of sandfishes.


trichomycterid

(zoology) Any catfish in the family Trichomycteridae.


trichonotid

(zoology) Any fish in the family Trichonotidae.


triglid

(zoology) Any fish in the family Triglidae.


triodontid

(zoology) Any fish in the family Triodontidae.


tripterygiid

(ichthyology) Any fish in the family Tripterygiidae, the triplefins.


tristichopterid

(zoology) Any extinct fish in the family Tristichopteridae.


pricklefish

en-noun

pricklefish (plural pricklefishes or pricklefish)

pricklefishes (plural)
pricklefish (plural)

Any of the family Stephanoberycidae of stephanoberyciform fishes.


fishmarket

LL-Q1860 (eng)-Flame, not lame-fishmarket.wav

From Middle English fisshmarket; equivalent to fish + market.


robalo

European seabass
European seabass#English

Dicentrarchus labrax
Dicentrarchus labrax#Translingual


scabbardfish

scabbardfish (plural scabbardfishes or scabbardfish)

scabbardfishes (plural)
scabbardfish (plural)


flashlight fish

flashlight fish (plural flashlight fishes or flashlight fish)

flashlight fishes (plural)
flashlight fish (plural)

Any of various fishes with large bioluminescent organs, mostly in family Anomalopidae.


diodont

A fish of the genus Diodon, or an allied genus.


ponyfish

ponyfish (plural ponyfishes or ponyfish)

Any of many fish of the family Leiognathidae; the slipmouths


hillstream loach

hillstream loach (plural hillstream loaches)

Any of many rheophilic fish, of the family Balitoridae


Spanish mackerel

Spanish mackerel (plural Spanish mackerels)

Any member of a tribe of mackerel (Scomberomorini)


scorpaenoid

en-adj

scorpaenoid (comparative more scorpaenoid, superlative most scorpaenoid)

more scorpaenoid (comparative)
most scorpaenoid (superlative)

Of or relating to the family Scorpaenidae, the scorpionfish


serranoid

From translingual Serranus + -oid (“resembling”), this being the typical genus.

(zoology) Any fish of the family Serranidae, which includes the striped bass, the black sea bass, and many other food fishes.


sargo

Diplodus sargus
Diplodus sargus#Translingual

Diplodus sargus, a species of seabream native to the eastern Atlantic and western Indian Oceans.


nigorobuna

Borrowed from Japanese ニゴロブナ (nigorobuna) (also written 煮頃鮒, 似五郎鮒, にごろぶな).

A freshwater ray-finned fish (Carassius auratus grandoculis), a wild subspecies of goldfish endemic to Japan, its habitat limited to Lake Biwa and environs.


sea adder

From sea + adder. Compare Old English mere-næddra (“sea-adder, lamprey”).

noncog

A European fifteen-spined stickleback, a fish of species Spinachia spinachia (syn. Gasterosteus spinachia).


shorefish

en-noun

shorefish (plural shorefish or shorefishes)

Any of several fishes which inhabit shallow waters


bluecap

A fish of the salmon kind with blue spots on its head.


seerfish

seerfish (plural seerfishes or seerfish)

Any of Scomberomorini, a tribe of ray-finned bony fishes in the mackerel family.


ronquil

A perciform marine fish of the family Bathymasteridae, related to the eelpouts and prowfish.


sea lawyer

A lawyer who specializes in maritime law.

Well, I will say, I think the sea lawyer is worse than the chaps on shore. I would rather see Mother Carey's chickens any day than a shark following a ship.

1852, The Spectator - Volume 25, page 807:

The extraordinary number of these sea lawyers present, was equalled only by their rapacity. Before we began cutting-in, they had already commenced their meal. Taking advantage of a heave of the swell, a shark would wriggle up on top of the whale, and setting his wide opened mouth against the solid blubber, would bite out a piece as round as and about the size of a man's head.

1859, The boy's own sea stories; the adventures of a sailor, narrated by himself:

On rising, and casting another hasty glance at the big head and huge back fin of my enemy, I saw that he was evidently hungry and excited, and making frantic efforts to get at me; but that, being a big shark, success in his laudable attempts was not within the resources of science -- in fact, morally and physically impossible, for there was scarcely water enough to swim a good-sized salmon. Being convinced of this highly comfortable state of things, I at once became cool and jolly; and, calling out to Frank to run to the United States Hotel, and fetch my rifle and a little bag of ammunition, which I always kept handy for chance occasions of sport, I prepared to have a little “chaff” with the “sea lawyer".

1878, Eneas Sweetland Dallas, Once a Week, page 112:


tubenose

A small, thin fish of Japanese and Korean coastal waters, Aulichthys japonicus


turbit

A kind of pigeon developed over many years of selective breeding, known for its peaked crest, short beak, and frill of feathers on the breast.


gardie

I set up a line for him with half a gardie for bait.

2010, Walter James Clark, Poor Little Wally!:

There are mullet, gardies, mangrove jack and more.

2021 January 4, Stephen Scourfield, “Cape crusaders on a journey of discovery”, in The West Australian:

(Australia) A garfish (of the family Hemiramphidae).


smooth hound

Any of several small North Atlantic coastal sharks of the genus Mustelus.


swingletail

(archaic, rare) The thrasher, or fox shark.


birt

From Middle English byrte; compare French bertonneau and English bret, burt.

(UK, dialect, archaic) A fish of the turbot kind; the brill.


king of herrings

king of herrings (plural kings of herrings)

Regalecus glesne
Regalecus glesne#Translingual


giant oarfish

giant oarfish (plural giant oarfish or giant oarfishes)

giant oarfish (plural)
giant oarfishes (plural)


yellowhead

A yellowhead butterflyfish (Chaetodon xanthocephalus).

A yellowheaded jawfish (Opistognathus aurifrons).

A plant of species Zanthoxylum flavum, related to citrus.

A mohua (Mohoua ochrocephala), a bird of New Zealand.


margate

Haemulon album
Haemulon album#Translingual

A white margate, of the species Haemulon album of fishes.


mugil

Any fish of the genus Mugil of mugilid mullets.


myxine

(zoology) Any member of the genus Myxine of hagfish.


scopeloid

(zoology, dated) Any fish of the former family Scopelidae.


scarus

From Latin scarus. See scar (“a kind of fish”).

A parrotfish, a Mediterranean food fish (any of various Scaridae species).


saurel

From French French saurel (“jack mackerel”), from Ancient Greek σαῦρος (saûros, “horse mackerel”). Compare Spanish jurel.

der

In general, while the consumption of fresh fish is tending to increase, 60 per cent of consumption consists of sardines, saurel, anchovy and mackerel, that is, very inexpensive fish.

1985, Barbara C. Cleveland, Adjustments to Changes in Fisheries Law and Economics, number 269, page 76:

Trachurus trachurus
Trachurus trachurus#Translingual

w:Webster's Dictionary#Webster's New International Dictionary 1909

Any carangoid fish of the genus Trachurus, especially Trachurus trachurus, of Europe and America, and Trachurus picturatus of California; the skipjack, scad or horse mackerel.


split-tail

A California fish (Pogonichthys macrolepidotus) of the carp family.


shovelnose

A fish of the sturgeon family (Scaphirhynchus platorynchus) of the Mississippi and Ohio rivers; the white sturgeon.


sea pike

(US) A large food fish (Centropomus undecimalis) found on both coasts of America; the robalo.


headfish

en-noun

headfish (plural headfishes or headfish)


bonetta

On the morning of this day we caught five bonettas, being the only fish taken since leaving England, excepting several flying fish, which at times flew aboard during the night, in their endeavours to escape from their pursuers, the bonettas and dolphins, whose principial food they constitute.

1819, A Voyage To South-America And The Cape Of Good Hope: In His Majesty's Gun Brig The Protector::


cavally

Compare Portuguese cavala, Spanish caballa; probably from Portuguese cavalo (“horse”).

Caranx hippos, a carangoid fish of the Atlantic coast.


light-horseman

From light (“not heavy”, adjective) + horseman (noun).

affix

(US, obsolete) A West Indian fish, Chaetodipterus faber, with a high dorsal fin and brilliant colours.


sea loach

A fish, the three-bearded rockling (Gaidropsarus vulgaris).


savanilla

(US, dialect, chiefly Texas, dated) A fish (Atlantic tarpon, Megalops atlanticus).


garvock

Sprattus sprattus
Sprattus sprattus#Translingual

(Scotland) A fish, garvie or sprat (Sprattus sprattus).


sparling

From Middle English sperlynge, shortened from Old French esperlinge, a Germanic borrowing, found in German Spiering, Spierling, Middle Low German spirling, Middle Dutch spierling, suffixed from the word now Dutch spier (“spar, pole; muscle”). See also sparrow for a homonymic bird-name.

Osmerus eperlanus
Osmerus eperlanus#Translingual

(Scotland) A European smelt (Osmerus eperlanus).


scleroderm

Ancient Greek σκληρόδερμος (sklēródermos, “with hard skin”); by surface analysis, sclero- + -derm.

uder

σκληρόδερμος

(pathology) Alternative form of scleroderma.

(zoology, obsolete) One of a tribe of plectognath fishes (Sclerodermi) having the skin covered with hard scales, or plates, such as the cowfish and trunkfish.

(zoology, obsolete) One of the Sclerodermata; a madrepore.

A hardened or bony integument of various animals.


pinkeen

From pink (“minnow”) + -een (“diminutive”).

Phoxinus phoxinus
Phoxinus phoxinus#Translingual

(Ireland) A little fish; especially the minnow, Phoxinus phoxinus.


cobia

First use in 1873. Of unknown origin, possibly via Spanish cobia from a language of the Caribbean.

Rachycentron canadum
Rachycentron canadum#Translingual

Rachycentron canadum, a perciform marine fish.


sprag

en-adj

sprag (comparative more sprag, superlative most sprag)

more sprag (comparative)
most sprag (superlative)

a good sprag memory

c. 1597 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Merry Wiues of Windsor”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene i]:


taran

A species of roach (Rutilus heckelii), a fish in the Cyprinidae family. It is native to the Black Sea basin: rivers Don, Kuban, Dnieper, Dniester, rarely Danube.


galeaspid

From Latin galea (“helmet”) + aspis (from Ancient Greek ἀσπίς (aspís, “round shield”)); compare translingual †Galeaspida.

cog

An interesting example is provided by the “polybranchic” condition in extinct jawless vertebrate taxa, which display an extremely large number of gills, such as some early Devonian galeaspids and the late Devonian euphaneropids.

2007, David J. McKenzie, Anthony P. Farrell, Colin J. Brauner, Fish Physiology: Volume 26: Primitive Fishes, page 41:

The jawless fish (termed ‘agnathans’) evolved and flourished during the Silurian Period (435-410 million years ago). These included bizarre forms with weird bony head armours, such as the bizarre galeaspids from China and the pituriaspids from Australia.

2011, Jeffrey Stilwell, John Long, Frozen in Time: Prehistoric Life in Antarctica, page 64:

Some 70 million years after this particular galeaspid swam the oceans, fish made another evolutionary leap when they took to life on land.

2013 February 16, Jeff Hecht, “Evolution's detectives: Closing in on missing links”, in New Scientist, volume 217, number 2904, page 37:

Any of the extinct class †Galeaspida of jawless fish.


knifejaw

Any of the family Oplegnathidae of perciform marine fish.


beakfish

en-noun

beakfish (plural beakfishes or beakfish)

Oplegnathus fasciatus is the striped beakfish; Oplegnathus insignis is the Pacific beakfish.

Any of certain fishes of the family Oplegnathidae.


nurseryfish

nurseryfish (plural nurseryfishes or nurseryfish)

nurseryfishes (plural)
nurseryfish (plural)

Any of the fish in the family Kurtidae that carry their egg clusters on hooks protruding from the foreheads of the males.


goggle-eye

A fish, the goggler, Selar crumenophthalmus.


burfish

A spinose plectognath fish of the Atlantic coast of the United States (especially Chilo mycterus geometricus) having the power of distending its body with water or air, so as to resemble a chestnut bur.


tetrodon

(zoology) Any of numerous species of plectognath fishes belonging to Tetraodon and allied genera.


poor cod

Trisopterus minutus, a temperate marine fish of the cod family (Gadidae).


finnan haddie

finnan haddie (countable and uncountable, plural finnan haddies)

Perhaps from the hamlet of Findon, Aberdeenshire, or the village of Findhorn at the mouth of the River Findhorn in Moray.

Cold-smoked haddock, representative of a regional method of smoking with green wood and peat in north-east Scotland.


sandling

From Middle English sandeling, sandelynge, equivalent to sand + -ling.


pristella

(zoology) A fish, Pristella maxillaris (the only species in its genus).


bloodfin

Aphyocharax anisitsi, a South American characin with blood-red tail and fins.


X-ray tetra

Like an X-ray image, the fish's transparent skin allows the bones to be seen.

Pristella maxillaris, a fish with a highly transparent body.


platyfish

platyfish (plural platyfishes or platyfish)

Certain fish of the genus Xiphophorus lacking a sword-like extension of the lower tailfin.


gymnotiform

(zoology) Belonging to the Gymnotiformes.


gymnotiform

(zoology) Any member of the Gymnotiformes.


opaleye

1966, D. W. Kelley (editor), Fish Bulletin 133: Ecological Studies of the Sacramento–San Joaquin Estuary, Part 1, California Department of Fish and Game, page 147,
Usually, adult opaleye are abundant about inshore rocky areas (from the surf zone to depths of 80 feet) and nearly every individual examined has its digestive tract packed with algae.

Opaleye and halfmoon are part of the incidental catch of the coastal purse seine fleet and are sold as "perch" in the fresh fish market (Fitch and Lavenberg 1971). Annual landings of opaleye average about 2½ tons with a maximum of 12 tons in 1973,[…].

1989, Elizabeth G. Stevens, William Watson, H. Geoffrey Moser, “Development and Distribution of Larvae and Pelagic Juveniles of Three Kyphosid Fishes (Girella nigricans, Medialuna californiensis, and Hermosilla azurea) off California and Baja California”, in Fishery Bulletin, Volume 87, Issue 3, U.S. Department of Commerce, page 745:

Young opaleyes, however, always lived in tidepools.

2010, Kenneth Stafford Norris, Mountain Time, Lulu.com, page 128:

A fish, Girella nigricans, a species of sea chub found in the Eastern Pacific.


flobber

Trisopterus luscus
Trisopterus luscus#Translingual


eagle ray

Any of a group of cartilaginous fishes in the family Myliobatidae, consisting mostly of large species living in the open ocean rather than on the sea bottom.


kawakawa

kawakawa (countable and uncountable, plural kawakawas)

A false albacore, a fish of species Euthynnus affinis.


roosterfish

roosterfish (plural roosterfishes or roosterfish)

roosterfishes (plural)
roosterfish (plural)

A game fish of species Nematistius pectoralis, sole species of family Nematistiidae, found in the warmer waters of the East Pacific from Baja California to Peru, distinguished by its "rooster comb", seven very long spines of the dorsal fin.


carpsucker

Any of various fish of the genus Carpiodes.


wananish

Borrowed from Canadian French ouananiche, from Montagnais, from wanans ("salmon") + -is (diminutive suffix).

bor+

A fish from any of several freshwater populations of the Atlantic salmon, Salmo salar.


twaite

Uncertain. First known reference is from 1609.

(dialectal) A fish, the twaite shad, Alosa fallax


climbing gourami

en-noun

climbing gourami (plural climbing gouramis or climbing gouramies)

climbing gouramis (plural)
climbing gouramies (plural)

Ananantidae. This family, known as the climbing gouramis, contains three genera, Anabas (1 species), Cteropoma (at least 25 species) and Sandelia (2).

1997, Jeffrey B. Graham, Air-Breathing Fishes: Evolution, Diversity, and Adaptation, page 54:

The anabantids, or climbing gouramis (Channa), are adapted to freshwater wetlands.

2000, Ramon Folch i Guillén, Josep María Camarasa, Encyclopedia of the Biosphere: Tropical rainforests, volume 2, page 157:

2001, E. Yu. Krysanov, A. S. Golubtsov, Journal of Ichthyology, Volume 41, Issues 6-9, page 698,
Eight species of the African climbing gourami genera Ctenopoma and Microctenopoma were karyologically studied using the air-dried method.

Any fish of the taxonomic family Anabantidae.


labyrinth organ

labyrinth organ (plural labyrinth organs)

The labyrinth organ may work a bit like a lung, but it is an entirely different solution to the problem of how to remove oxygen from air.[…]The labyrinth organ is an effective adaptation to low-oxygen habitats.

2002, Gary Elson, Oliver Lucanus, Gouramies and Other Labyrinth Fishes, page 6:

The labyrinth organ fills most of the opercular cavity and is positioned behind and above the gill chamber and extends into the suprabranchial space; hence the name suprabranchial organ.

2008, Tim M. Berra, Freshwater Fish Distribution, page 480:

Anesthesia of fish with labyrinth organs (bettas, some gouramis, etc.) should be approached with caution. Owing to the unique anatomy of the labyrinth organ (enables fish to breathe atmospheric oxygen) and the gills of these fish (thick lamellae and ecreased lamellar surface area), it is possible to "drown" the fish if an overdose of an anesthetic agent is given.

2012, Helen E. Roberts, “MS 222 Anesthesia”, in Jörg Mayer, Thomas M. Donnelly, editors, Clinical Veterinary Advisor: Birds and Exotic Pets, page 513:

(zoology) An organ common to fish of the suborder Anabantoidei that enables them to breathe air.


labyrinth fish

labyrinth fish (plural labyrinth fish or labyrinth fishes)

labyrinth fish (plural)
labyrinth fishes (plural)

From labyrinth + fish; see also labyrinth organ.

Labyrinth fish have another peculiarity, in that all the internal organs are compressed into the front part of the body, so that the rear of the body contains only the spine and muscles.[…]Labyrinth fish are nearly all predatory, and many are unsuitable for the community tank.

1995, Brian Ward, The Aquarium Fish Survival Manual, page 114:

Labyrinth fish belong to different but related families of fish; they live in southwestern Africa and throughout much of southern and eastern Asia.

2001, Marshall Cavendish Corporation, Aquatic Life of the World, volume 5, page 288:

Labyrinth fishes (Anabantoidei) are grouped into three families (Osphronemidae, Helostomatidae, and Anabantidae) within the teleost Order Perciformes.[…]Labyrinth fishes form a natural (monophyletic) group of teleost fishes, the Suborder Anabantoidei.

2009, S. Blair Hedges, Sudhir Kumar, editors, The Timetree of Life, page 344:

Labyrinth fish are nest builders, and the males maintain the nest and incubate the eggs.

2010, Beth Vanhorn, Robert W. Clark, Veterinary Assisting Fundamentals & Applications, page 2017:

(zoology) Any fish that has a labyrinth organ, a fish of the suborder Anabantoidei, an anabantoid.


anabantoid

The anabantoids are called ”labyrinth fishes” because every species in the entire suborder possesses paired suprabranchial chambers that function for air breathing (Das, 1927; Bader, 1937; Peters, 1978)[…]Early discussions of the form and possible function of the anabantoid labyrinth organ are contained in Peters (1846, 1853), Zograff (1886, 1888), and Henninger (1907).

The blue, pearl, kissing, and dwarf gouramies are well-known anabantoids. Less familiar anabantoids are the climbing perches and bushfish.[…]Anabantoids are commonly known as labyrinth fishes, referring to a specialized bone above the gill chamber. This structure starts out small in baby anabantoids, where it is called the epibranchial bone.

2004, Robert J. Goldstein, The Betta Handbook, page 1:

Anabantoid fishes have paired suprabranchial organs that function as accessory breathing structures.[…]Anabantoids must gulp air at the surface since gill respiration alone is inadequate to prevent suffocation.

A fish of the suborder Anabantoidei, a labyrinth fish.


largemouth bass

largemouth bass (plural largemouth bass or largemouth basses)

largemouth bass (plural)
largemouth basses (plural)

Micropterus salmoides
Micropterus salmoides#Translingual

A species of black bass, Micropterus salmoides.


rock bass

rock bass (plural rock bass or rock basses)

A rock bass of the genus Ambloplites, especially of the species Ambloplites rupestris and Ambloplites constellatus.

A spotted grouper (Epinephelus analogus)

A starry grouper (Epinephelus labriformis)

A rivulated mutton hamlet (Alphestes multiguttatus)


slickhead

Any of the family Alepocephalidae of marine smelts, lacking scales on the head.


madtom

Two specimens were taken; one very large example, 9 inches long, i a pool of Bottom Creek, and a small one in the river. The stomach of the large specimen was filled with minnows and "Mad Toms."

1890, “Amblopites rupestris cavifrons (Cope). "Red Eye."”, in Bulletin of the United States Fish Commission, volume 8, United States Fish Commission, page 123:

We were fishing with "mad toms" for bait; that is what the local fishermen call diminative^([sic]) bullheads.

1895 July 27, “In Appalachian Folds”, in Forest and Stream, volume 45, page 70:

On the Potomac and the Susquehanna rivers a favorite bass bait is what they call a mad-tom, which is nothing but a small yellow catfish (stone cat) with its spines cut off.

1916, Horace Kephart, Camping and Woodcraft: A Handbook for Vacation Campers and for Travelers in the Wilderness, volume 2:

Any of the catfish of the genus Noturus of the family Ictaluridae.


haarder

(South Africa) Planiliza haematocheilus, the redlip mullet, a mugilid fish.


harvestfish

harvestfish (plural harvestfishes or harvestfish)

harvestfishes (plural)
harvestfish (plural)


jeju

Finally he sent the jeju (Erythrinus unitaeniatus; these fish are covered with a slippery phlegm), which pushed the man out ...

1946, Curt Nimuendajú, The Eastern Timbira:

In the jeju, the swim bladder has a respiratory function, while in the aruana it is an hydrostatic organ. Both are physostomes, and the swim bladder is divided into 2 chambers whose walls are made up of 3 enveloping membranes or mantles.

1981, Aquatic Sciences and Fisheries Abstracts:

The jeju (Hoplerythrinus unitaeniatus) is a facultative air-breathing fish that utilizes a modified swim bladder as an ...

2005, Adalberto Luis Val, Vera Maria Fonseca de Almeida e Val, David J. Randall, Fish Physiology: The Physiology of Tropical Fishes, Elsevier, →ISBN, page 256:

Erythrinus unitaeniatus
Erythrinus unitaeniatus

A South American (Amazonian) erythrinid fish, Hoplerythrinus unitaeniatus (formerly sometimes Erythrinus unitaeniatus).


gray triggerfish

gray triggerfish (plural gray triggerfish)

A triggerfish of the western Atlantic, found from Nova Scotia to Argentina.


velifer

spinyfin velifer
spinyfin velifer#English

Either of two species of fish that make up the family Veliferidae, Metavelifer multiradiatus, the spinyfin velifer and Vellifer hypselopterus, the sailfin velifer


oscar

A cichlid fish of species Astronotus ocellatus, native to South America, sometimes kept in aquariums.


walking fish

walking fish (plural walking fish or walking fishes)

walking fish (plural)
walking fishes (plural)

Any fish that is able to travel over land for extended periods of time


batoid

Pristis is no longer indicated to be sister to all extant batoids except torpediniforms and may be a member of a clade including guitarfishes and rajids.

2012, Jeffrey C. Carrier, Biology of Sharks and Their Relatives, CRC Press, page 80:

Any ray or skate of the superorder Batoidea.


skipjack tuna

skipjack tuna (plural skipjack tunas or skipjack tuna)

skipjack tunas (plural)
skipjack tuna (plural)

Katsuwonus pelamis
Katsuwonus pelamis#Translingual

A medium-sized perciform fish in the tuna family, Katsuwonus pelamis.


tuladi

From Canadian French touladi, from an Eastern Algonquian language. (The fish is sometimes said to take its name from the Touladi River where some spawn, but the river more likely takes its name from the fish.)

In Long Lake there are plenty of tuladi (salmon trout) and trout. […] I have caught tuladi running as high as sixteen pounds in the Fish River Lakes. The tuladi in Long Lake are the best, always fat. There are two kinds of tuladi; the one with the white belly is poorer than that which has spots on its belly.

1888, Edward Jack, “The Wonderful Lakes of the Upper St. John”, in The American Angler, page 35:

[…] a narrow sheet of water, about 22 M. long, abounding in large-sized trout and 'tuladi', a heavy fish of the salmon family.

1894, Karl Baedeker (Firm), The Dominion of Canada: With Newfoundland and an Excursion to Alaska. Handbook for Travellers, Leipsic [i.e. Leipzig] : K. Baedeker, page 64

Salvelinus namaycush
Salvelinus namaycush#Translingual

A large lake trout, Salvelinus namaycush, found mainly in Canada and northern areas of the US.


glyptosternoid

Any catfish of the subfamily Glyptosterninae.


goldstripe darter

goldstripe darter (plural goldstripe darters)

Etheostoma parvipinne, a small drab freshwater fish with a rounded snout.


anthia

Any fish of the subfamily Anthiinae in the family Serranidae of basses, basslets, and groupers.


polyodontoid

Any paddlefish of the family Polyodontidae


swordfish sucker

swordfish sucker (plural swordfish suckers)

A spearfish remora (Remora brachyptera), which attaches itself to a swordfish, billfish, or shark and feeds off it.


urchin fish

urchin fish (plural urchin fish or urchin fishes)

urchin fish (plural)
urchin fishes (plural)


flapper skate

A European skate, Dipturus intermedius, a subspecies of the common skate.


longear

We went fishing for longears last summer.

Lepomis megalotis, a colourful freshwater sunfish with an elongated opercular flap.


starry ray

A European skate, Amblyraja radiata, with stellate bases on the dorsal spines.


tompot blenny

Parablennius gattorugine, a marine blenny found around Europe.


pirate perch

Aphredoderus sayanus, a North American freshwater fish of family Aphredoderidae: order Percopsiformes.


percopsiform

(zoology) Any fish of the order Percopsiformes


common mora

Mora moro, the mora, a deep-sea cod-like fish.


catalufa

Any of three priacanthid fish: Heteropriacanthus cruentatus, Priacanthus arenatus, and Pristigenys serrula.


Chilean sea bass

Chilean sea bass (plural Chilean sea bass)

Patagonian toothfish
Patagonian toothfish

Dissostichus eleginoides
Dissostichus eleginoides#Translingual

(US, Canada) Patagonian toothfish (Dissostichus eleginoides)


roundnose grenadier

roundnose grenadier (plural roundnose grenadiers)

Coryphaenoides rupestris, a marine ray-finned fish in the family Macrouridae.


Irish lord

The sculpin fish of the genus Hemilepidotus.


blaasop

blaasop (usually uncountable, plural blaasops)

Borrowed from Afrikaans blaasop (“blowfish”), ultimately from Dutch blaas op (“blow up”).

Any of several species of pufferfish found in South African waters.


hardyhead

hardyhead (plural hardyheads or hardyhead)

From reference to their hardy or robust head.

(Australia) Any of the sundry species of fish of the family Atherinidae found near Australia;


peled

Ultimately from Russian пе́лядь (péljadʹ), either directly or via its scientific name.

The Coregonus peled, a whitefish of the Salmonidae family, endemic to Northern Europe and Russia.


spawn eater

A small American cyprinoid fish (Notropis hudsonius) allied to the dace.


porolepiform

A fish of the extinct order †Porolepiformes


calico bass

calico bass (plural calico bass or calico basses)

calico bass (plural)
calico basses (plural)


papermouth

It is called bachelor in the Ohio Valley, campbellite, croppie, and new-light in Illinois, Indiana, and Кentucky; tin-mouth or paper-mouth in northern Indiana and Illinois, and sac-à-lait, and chinduapin perch in the lower Mississippi and Texas.

1905, “Crappie”, in The Nature Library, volume 5, page 334:

When Earhart and Jarvis found out that the Crappiethon Classic would be held at Lake Harris in Hot Springs, Arkansas, one year, they knew they had to develop new strategies for taking papermouths, because the lake was deep and clear -- unlike most of the lakes in their native state of Tennessee.

1997, John E. Phillips, Masters' Secrets of Crappie Fishing, page 135:


cory

All the tetras in my tank (3 species - black neons, Pristellas, and red eyes) died within a 36 hour period. The corys and otos in the same tank are fine.
There was no change in water quality, feeding habits, or water temperature. I have no idea why all the tets would die in such a short time span.

1998 January 24, LASP, “Dead tetras”, in rec.aquaria.freshwater.misc (Usenet):

Any fish belonging to the genus Corydoras, a group of South American freshwater catfish.


bergall

/ˈbɜː(ɹ)ɡɔːl/

From Norwegian berggalt (“a labrid fish”), equivalent to berg (“mountain, hill; rock”) + galte (“boar”).

Tautogolabrus adspersus
Tautogolabrus adspersus#Translingual

Tautogolabrus adspersus, a wrasse native to the western Atlantic, inhabiting inshore waters near the sea floor at depths of 10–128 metres (33–420 feet) and at latitudes of 36°–49° north, and reaching up to 38 centimetres (15 inches) in total length and up to 1 kilogram (2·2 pounds) in weight.


bannerfish

bannerfish (plural bannerfishes or bannerfish)

bannerfishes (plural)
bannerfish (plural)

Any of several species of butterflyfish in the genus Heniochus (order Chaetodontiformes) that superficially resemble the Moorish idol (Zanclus cornutus, order Acanthuriformes), though not closely related.


mirror carp

mirror carp (plural mirror carps or mirror carp)

mirror carps (plural)
mirror carp (plural)

From the resemblance of their large scales to mirrors.

A form of carp with irregular and patchy scaling.


blue acara

Any of species Andinoacara pulcher of blue-grey freshwater cichlids found in Central and South America.


beltfish

Trichiurus lepturus
Trichiurus lepturus#Translingual

The largehead hairtail, Trichiurus lepturus.


manini

en-adj

manini (comparative more manini, superlative most manini)

more manini (comparative)
most manini (superlative)


onion fish

(obsolete, dialect) A fish, the grenadier.


swellshark

Cephaloscyllium ventriosum, a catshark of the family Scyliorhinidae.


top minnow

A small viviparous freshwater mosquitofish (Gambusia affinis) abundant in the southern United States.


mango tilapia

en-noun

mango tilapia (plural mango tilapia or mango tilapias)

mango tilapia (plural)
mango tilapias (plural)


ropefish

ropefish (plural ropefishes or ropefish)


reedfish

reedfish (plural reedfishes or reedfish)


porcupine fish

porcupine fish (plural porcupine fish or porcupine fishes)

porcupine fish (plural)
porcupine fishes (plural)

I took a knife down from where it hung on the side of the fireplace, & place the sharp tip against the taut body of the porcupine fish.

2001, Richard Flanagan, Gould's Book of Fish, Vintage, published 2016, page 161:

Any of several tropical fish species in the family Diodontidae that are covered with sharp spines and inflate themselves when threatened.

siilikala

a fish species that inflates itself when threatened to expose spines


scarlet shiner

A fish of species Lythrurus fasciolaris, a native of fresh waters of the eastern United States.


wolf eel

Anarrhichthys ocellatus, a superficially eel-like fish found in the northern Pacific Ocean.


mud sunfish

Acantharchus pomotis, a sunfish widely distributed in the fresh waters along the Atlantic coast of North America.


choupique

From Cajun French choupique, from Choctaw shupik (“mudfish”).

Them choupiques and ugly alligator gar done wanted to snap his damn hands off when he pulled them in the boat.

2001, M. F. Korn, Skimming the Gumbo Nuclear, page 25:


Miss Lucy

Chrysoblephus gibbiceps, a species of sea bream in South Africa.


ophidiiform

(zoology) Any ray-finned fish of the order Ophidiiformes


black durgon

Melichthys niger, a triggerfish with bright white lines running along its dorsal and anal fins.


smallie

LL-Q1860 (eng)-Flame, not lame-smallie.wav

(fishing, informal) A smallmouth bass (Micropterus dolomieu).


treefish

treefish (plural treefishes or treefish)

Sebastes serriceps, a marine fish native to the eastern Pacific Ocean, with large spines on top of its head.


mutton snapper

Lutjanus analis, a snapper native to the Atlantic coastal waters of the Americas from Massachusetts to southern Brazil.


red hake

Urophycis chuss, an edible phycid hake of the genus Urophycis, found in the Atlantic Ocean.


silver whiting

silver whiting (countable and uncountable, plural silver whitings)

southern school whiting
southern school whiting

A southern school whiting (Sillago bassensis)


southern school whiting

A coastal marine fish of species Sillago bassensis, in the smelt-whiting family that inhabits the south and south-west coasts of Australia.


trawl whiting

southern school whiting (Sillago bassensis)


King George whiting

A coastal marine fish of species Sillaginodes punctatus.


sand darter

Ammocrypta is the smallest genus of darters and in many respects is the most distinctive. We refer to them collectively as the sand darters, though some authorities would exclude the crystal darter.

2015, Robert A. Kuehne, The American Darters, page 25:

Any of the small perches of the genus Ammocrypta.


silver chub

Macrhybopsis storeriana, a cyprinid fish of North America.


silver eel

Ariosoma mellissii, a rare tropical marine eel.


leatherjack

leatherjacket (fish in genus Oligoplites)


cyprinodontoid

Any of the family Cyprinodontidae of pupfish.


coastrange sculpin

coastrange sculpin (plural coastrange sculpins)


spoonhead sculpin

spoonhead sculpin (plural spoonhead sculpins)

Cottus ricei, a North American freshwater fish.


paradisefish

paradisefish (plural paradisefishes or paradisefish)

paradisefishes (plural)
paradisefish (plural)

Macropodus opercularis, a freshwater gourami of East Asia.


shorthead redhorse

shorthead redhorse (plural shorthead redhorses)

Moxostoma macrolepidotum, a fish native to central and eastern North America.


cutthroat eel

Any of the family Synaphobranchidae of eels.


burrfish

burrfish (plural burrfishes or burrfish)

Chilomycterus schoepfi, a fish of the family Diodontidae distinguished from the porcupinefish by the shorter and blunter spines covering the somewhat spherical body.


porcupinefish

porcupinefish (plural porcupinefishes or porcupinefish)

porcupinefishes (plural)
porcupinefish (plural)


daggertooth

Any of the genus Anotopterus of aulopiform fish, with large mouths and sharp teeth.


white pointer

Carcharodon carcharias
Carcharodon carcharias#Translingual

Carcharodon carcharias, a species of shark.


flathead mullet

flathead mullet (plural flathead mullets)

An edible fish, of the family Mugilidae, found worldwide in tropical and subtropical coastal waters.


logperch

logperch (plural logperches or logperch)


pupfish

From pup + fish, said to derive from the mating habits of the males, whose activities vaguely resemble puppies at play.

Any of a group of small killifish belonging to ten genera of the family Cyprinodontidae.


pinecone fish

pinecone fish (plural pinecone fishes or pinecone fish)

pinecone fishes (plural)
pinecone fish (plural)

A beryciform marine fish of the family Monocentridae, with a rounded, compressed body covered in strong plate-like scales fortified with ridges.


beryciform

Here, cold water rises from the depths, sometimes bringing with it deep-dwelling oddities such as the big-eyed beryciforms: shiny slimeheads and fangteeth.

2022, Thomas Halliday, Otherworlds, Penguin, published 2023, page 83:


California corbina

California corbina (plural California corbinas or California corbina)

California corbinas (plural)
California corbina (plural)

Menticirrhus undulatus, a saltwater fish in the croaker family.


anableps

The most striking example is a family of small fish living in tropical American waters called the Poeciliidae among whom guppies, mosquito fish and the four-eyed anableps are best known.

1999, Guy Murchie, The Seven Mysteries of Life:

Any of the genus Anableps of "four-eyed" fishes (having eyes raised above the top of the head and divided into two parts) found in brackish waters in northern South America and Trinidad.


tunnyfish

tunnyfish (plural tunnyfishes or tunnyfish)

In the morning as soon as he woke up he at once started smoking, drinking and eating the tunnyfish in oil, and writing quantities of letters in a tearing hurry, and he upset a bottle of ink on a carpet in his room […]

1989, Natalia Ginzburg, All Our Yesterdays:


swai

iridescent shark
iridescent shark#English

Synonym of iridescent shark (“a shark catfish of species Pangasianodon hypophthalmus”)


iridescent shark

iridescent shark (plural iridescent sharks)

A shark catfish (not a true shark) of species Pangasianodon hypophthalmus.

থাই পাঙ্গাশ

Pangasianodon hypophthalmus — see also panga, pangasius


shark catfish

shark catfish (plural shark catfishes or shark catfish)

shark catfishes (plural)
shark catfish (plural)

Any sharklike catfish of the family Pangasiidae, found across southern Asia.


seabream

Any of several species of marine fish of the families Sparidae or Bramidae found in shallow temperate and tropical waters around the World.


blackline tilefish

blackline tilefish (plural blackline tilefishes or blackline tilefish)

blackline tilefishes (plural)
blackline tilefish (plural)

Caulolatilus cyanops, a tilefish native to the western Atlantic Ocean.


waryfish

waryfish (plural waryfishes or waryfish)

Waryfishes are near-bottom (demersal) fishes at 200–3000 m of all oceans.

1989, C. D. Paulin, New Zealand Fish: A Complete Guide, page 107:

A deep-sea aulopiform fish of the family Notosudidae.


wallago

/ˈwɑ.ləˌɡoʊ/

From the translingual genus name Wallago, from Telugu వాలగ (vālaga).

A member of the genus Wallago of catfishes of the family Siluridae, native to Asia.


velvetfish

velvetfish (plural velvetfishes or velvetfish)

velvetfishes (plural)
velvetfish (plural)

From velvet + fish, from its skin texture.

Any of a family of scorpaeniform fish (Aploactinidae).


vimba

Any member of the genus Vimba of cyprinid fish.


round herring

round herring (plural round herrings or round herring)

round herrings (plural)
round herring (plural)

Any of the family Dussumieriidae of clupeiform fish.


clupeiform

(zoology) Belonging or relating to the order Clupeiformes of ray-finned fish, including herrings and anchovies


American brook char

American brook char (plural American brook chars)

Salvelinus fontinalis
Salvelinus fontinalis#Translingual

The brook trout, a fish of the species Salvelinus fontinalis, native to Eastern North America in the United States and Canada.


European plaice

European plaice (plural European plaices)

Pleuronectes platessa
Pleuronectes platessa#Translingual

A commercially important flatfish of the species Pleuronectes platessa, native to European waters.


rosy barb

Pethia conchonius, a subtropical freshwater cyprinid fish of southern Asia.


dogtooth tuna

Gymnosarda unicolor, a pelagic marine fish of the family Scombridae.


coarse fish

coarse fish (plural coarse fishes or coarse fish)

coarse fishes (plural)
coarse fish (plural)

Any fish that is not a game fish, and thus historically disdained by recreational anglers.


tommy ruff

Arripis georgianus, an Australasian fish; the Australian herring.


actinistian

Relating to coelacanths (and related fish) of the subclass Actinistia.


jollytail

Galaxias maculatus (common galaxias), a freshwater fish with a marine larval stage, found from western Australia to the Falkland Islands.


hyperoartian

(zoology) Any vertebrate of the class Hyperoartia


spring salmon

spring salmon (plural spring salmons or spring salmon)

spring salmons (plural)
spring salmon (plural)

(Canada) A chinook salmon; especially an average-sized one (less than 13.5 kg).


dreamfish

dreamfish (plural dreamfishes or dreamfish)

Any fish whose flesh can produce hallucinations when eaten.


Otsego bass

From Otsego Lake (New York), in central New York State.

A whitefish in species Coregonus artedi, found in lakes of the Great Lakes region of North America.


ostariophysian

(zoology) A member of the fish superorder Ostariophysi.


osteolepiform

(zoology) Any extinct fish of the order Osteolepiformes


mud shark

The courtships were called off. The guys all joked about it afterward, said Mr. Bloussé was a nigger-lover and a mud shark.

2008, Rachel Kushner, Telex from Cuba, page 26:

(slang, derogatory, offensive, ethnic slur) A non-black person, usually a white woman, who has sexual relationships with black people, usually men.


channel catfish

channel catfish (plural channel catfishes or channel catfish)

channel catfishes (plural)
channel catfish (plural)

Ictalurus punctatus
Ictalurus punctatus#Translingual

A fish of the species Ictalurus punctatus, native to eastern North America.


cowcod

cowcod (countable and uncountable, plural cowcods)

A fish of species Sebastes levis, found off the coasts of California and northern Mexico.


jacopever

(South Africa) Any of certain species of marine fish in the genus Sebastes.


American perch

American perch (plural American perches or American perch)

American perches (plural)
American perch (plural)

Perca flavescens
Perca flavescens#Translingual

A fish of the species Perca flavescens, native to eastern and central North America.


blackmouth

From black + mouth.
For the origin of the pejorative "Presbyterian", several theories exist:
* A specialisation of a dialect sense "liar, slanderer, foul-mouthed person" applied to political radicals.
* Ulster Scots refusing to take the "Black Oath" imposed in 1639;
* Covenanters eating blackberries or blaeberries while hiding in the wilds during the The Killing Time.

(derogatory, Ireland, dated) a Presbyterian


subbrachian

(ichthyology, obsolete) Any fish of the order Subbrachiales (syn. Malacopterygii)


rosy-red minnow

rosy-red minnow (plural rosy-red minnows)

Pimephales promelas
Pimephales promelas#Translingual

A strain of the fathead minnow (Pimephales promelas).


pelican eel

An eel-like deep-sea fish (Eurypharynx pelecanoides), the only known member of the genus Eurypharynx and family Eurypharyngidae, which is rarely seen by humans, although occasionally caught in fishing nets.


salamanderfish

salamanderfish (plural salamanderfishes or salamanderfish)

salamanderfishes (plural)
salamanderfish (plural)

Lepidogalaxias salamandroides, a small fish of Western Australia.


shovelfish

From shovel + fish, from the shape of its snout.


duckbill cat

The paddlefish (Polyodon spathula), locally known as "spoonbill," "duckbill cat," and "shovelfish, " is found in all the larger streams of the Mississippi Valley

1911, United States. Bureau of the Census, United States. Bureau of Fisheries, Fisheries of the United States, 1908, page 75:

Polyodon spathula
Polyodon spathula#Translingual

The American paddlefish (Polyodon spathula)


banded archerfish

banded archerfish (plural banded archerfish)

An archerfish of species Toxotes jaculatrix, known for its ability to spit a jet of water to "shoot down" prey, found in coastal waters from India to the Philippines, Vanuatu, and Australia.


largescale archerfish

largescale archerfish (plural largescale archerfishes or largescale archerfish)

largescale archerfishes (plural)
largescale archerfish (plural)

An archerfish of species Toxotes chatareus, which is sooty in colour compared to the silveriness of most archerfish.


fishsicle

This would certainly be a perfect time to replace it [your aquarium's heater] — if something goes wrong you'll either have fishsicles or bouillabaisse.

1994, Aquarium Fish Magazine, volume 7, number 3, page 8:

Fish can swim in the icy waters without turning into fishsicles because many of them make chemicals that keep their blood from freezing.

2008, Alvin Silverstein, Virginia B. Silverstein, & Laura Silverstein Nunn, Adaptation, Twenty-First Century Books, →ISBN, page 51:

[…] The ice boat had carried them home with their baskets of fish. Elsa froze the fish and snuck them into the kitchens.
"Fishsicles!" five-year-old Anna shouted in delight.

2015, Memory and Magic, Disney Press, →ISBN:

(informal, humorous) A cold or frozen fish.


striped threadfin

striped threadfin (plural striped threadfins)

A threadfin of species Polydactylus plebeius, of the Indo-Pacific.


dotted gizzard shad

dotted gizzard shad (plural dotted gizzard shads or dotted gizzard shad)

dotted gizzard shads (plural)
dotted gizzard shad (plural)

Konosirus punctatus
Konosirus punctatus#Translingual

A species of fish (Konosirus punctatus) native to the northwestern Pacific Ocean, where it occurs along the Asian coastline.


oxyrhynchus

/ˌɒksɪˈɹɪŋkəs/

/ˌɑksiˈɹɪŋkəs/

From New Latin oxyrhynchus, from Ancient Greek ὀξῠ́ρρῠγχος (oxŭ́rrhŭnkhos, “a kind of Egyptian fish”) (whence also the place name Ὀξῠ́ρρῠγχος (Oxŭ́rrhŭnkhos), from ὀξῠ́ς (oxŭ́s, “sharp”) + ῥῠ́γχος (rhŭ́nkhos, “snout”).

compound

(ichthyology) a fish with a pointed snout


alfonsino

Any of several deep-sea food fishes of the genus Beryx.


sharksploitation

Hunky James Caan look-alike Andrés Garcia – the nominal hero who is apparently sponsored by Adidas – became a pin-up of these adventures, appearing in the sharksploitation movie Tintorera! (1977), Tonino Ricci's Cave of the Sharks and in The Bermuda Triangle (1978), with John Huston and Claudine Auger.

2011, Howard Hughes, Cinema Italiano: The Complete Guide from Classics to Cult, I. B. Tauris & Co Ltd, →ISBN, page 282:

After their yacht runs aground in Australian waters, four of them decide to swim for land but are soon stalked by a huge great white shark. While the story stutters and starts, sharksploitation fans will lap it up.

2011 January 21, David Edwards, “New Releases; DVDs”, in The Mirror, UK:

Spoofing the sharksploitation genre is Ghost Shark 2: Urban Jaws (“And for God's sake, stay out of the water!”).

2014, Gene Helfman, George H. Burgess, Sharks: The Animal Answer Guide, Johns Hopkins University Press, →ISBN, page 210:

(film) A genre of exploitation films focusing on sharks and shark attacks.


yelting

(obsolete) A fish, the mangrove snapper or gray snapper, Lutjanus griseus.


greeneye

Any of the deep-sea fish of the family Chlorophthalmidae, that have large iridescent eyes with green lenses.


matajuelo

A large squirrelfish of Florida and the West Indies, of species Holocentrus adscensionis.


matajuelo blanco

(archaic) A West Indian food fish (Malacanthus plumieri), a type of tilefish.


keta

The rivers in June, July, and August, abound with ketas, and hump-backed salmon.

1810, John Smith, A System of Modern Geography:

Oncorhynchus keta
Oncorhynchus keta#Translingual

A small salmon (Oncorhynchus keta) of North America.


tomtate

The grunt Haemulon aurolineatum, or various allied fishes.


salmon shark

A mackerel shark of species Lamna ditropis.


silver carp

en-noun

silver carp (plural silver carps or silver carp)

silver carps (plural)
silver carp (plural)

A fish of the species Hypophthalmichthys molitrix, native to East Asia, cultivated as a food fish.


flying carp

The fish leaps high out of the water when frightened.

A fish of the species Hypophthalmichthys molitrix, native to east Asia, cultivated as a food fish, highly invasive in US, also known as a silver carp.


bighead carp

bighead carp (plural bighead carps or bighead carp)

bighead carps (plural)
bighead carp (plural)

Any of the species of genus Hypophthalmichthys, a genus of fish having a large, scaleless head, a large mouth, and eyes located very low on the head

Hypophthalmichthys nobilis
Hypophthalmichthys nobilis#Translingual

especially Hypophthalmichthys nobilis, the species reaching the largest size, native to east Asia.