amur

Borrowed from Russian аму́р (amúr), from an Evenki language such as Solon amur (“river”). Doublet of Amur.

In the fall of 1972, we obtained a special permit from the Indiana Department of Natural Resources to import 20 amurs for study in indoor aquaria.

1974, “Proceedings of the Indiana Academy of Science”, in Indiana Academy of Science, volume 83, 174:

Any of various hybrids of the white amur that were bred for aquatic weed control.


candlefish

en-noun

candlefish (plural candlefishes or candlefish)

candlefishes (plural)
candlefish (plural)

Thaleichthys pacificus
Thaleichthys pacificus#Translingual

An oily edible fish, Thaleichthys pacificus, from the northern Pacific, that was once dried and used as a candle or torch by the Chinook Indians.


crabeater

Rachycentron canadum
Rachycentron canadum#Translingual

A cobia or sergeant fish (Rachycentron canadum).


soapfish

soapfish (plural soapfishes or soapfish)

Any of a number of serranid fish that can secrete a toxic soaplike mucus

Rypticus bistrispinus (freckled soapfish)

Rypticus maculatus (whitespotted soapfish)

Rypticus nigripinnis (blackfin soapfish, twice-spotted soapfish)

Rypticus saponaceus (greater soapfish, three-spined soapfish, soapy jack)

Rypticus subbifrenatus (spotted soapfish)

Grammistes sexlineatus (golden stripe soapfish, goldenstriped soapfish, six-lined soapfish, skunkfish

Aulacocephalus temminckii (goldribbon soapfish, goldstripe grouper)

Pogonoperca punctata (leaflip soapfish, spotted soapfish, snowflake soapfish, leaflip grouper)

Diploprion bifasciatum (barred soapfish, two-banded soapfish)


trunkfish

trunkfish (plural trunkfishes or trunkfish)

Species of genera Lactophrys and Rhinesomus (in boxfish family Ostraciidae).


oarfish

For the second time this year an oarfish, a rarely seen deep sea fish that has historically been considered a harbinger of doom, washed up on the California coastline.

2024 November 15, Dani Anguiano, “Second oarfish, mythical harbinger of doom, found washed up in California”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:

A large, greatly elongated, type of fish of the family Regalecidae.


lionhead cichlid

lionhead cichlid (plural lionhead cichlids)

a cichlid rheophile freshwater fish from Africa.


syngnathid

(zoology) Any member of the family Syngnathidae of seahorses, sea dragons, and pipefish, all with fused jaws.


smallmouth

A species of freshwater bass, Micropterus dolomieu, native to central North America but widely introduced throughout Canada and the United States as a game fish.


sandfish

sandfish (plural sandfishes or sandfish)

belted sandfish

Serranus subligarius in family Serranidae

Any of genus Gonorynchus (also called beaked sandfishes), long, thin ray-finned fishes (family Gonorychidae)

Any of several marine fishes that burrow into sandy seabeds

in Trichodontidae, a family of perch-like fish

of species Awaous tajasica, usually sand fish, a species of goby fish (family Gobiidae)

Other animals that notably burrow in sand:

sandfish skink (Scincus scincus), a land-dwelling lizard that swims in sand

a sea cucumber of species Holothuria scabra or Thelenota ananas.


featherback

From feather + back, from the small and narrow dorsal fin.


skilfish

skilfish (plural skilfishes or skilfish)

A fish, of the genus Erilepis, found on deep rocky bottoms in the North Pacific.


whiptail

whiptail (countable and uncountable, plural whiptails)

One of the most popular is the hoki, or whiptail, a bug-eyed specimen found far down in the waters around New Zealand and transformed into a major export.

2009 September 10, William J. Broad, “From Deep Pacific, Ugly and Tasty, With a Catch”, in New York Times:

A fish, blue grenadier (Macruronus novaezelandiae).


anchoveta

/ˌantʃəʊˈvɛtə/

/ˌænt͡ʃoʊˈvɛtə/

From Spanish anchoveta, diminutive of anchova (“anchovy”). Compare anchovette.

An anchovy of species Engraulis ringens, from the southern Pacific.


gambusia

Any of several live-bearing freshwater fish, of the genus Gambusia, that feed on the larva of mosquitos and are used to control them.


gill cover

(anatomy, zoology) An operculum; a series of bones found in bony fish that serves as a facial support structure and a protective covering for the gills.


gill slit

(anatomy, zoology) An individual opening to gills, which lacks an operculum; characteristic of cartilaginous fish such as sharks.


blueback

A Beardslee trout (Oncorhynchus mykiss irideus f. beardsleei).


greenling

Any of various food fishes, of the family Hexagrammidae, of the northern Pacific


sauger

Unknown. Attested from late 19th century.

Sander canadensis
Sander canadensis#Translingual

A freshwater perciform fish, of species Sander canadensis


barrelfish

barrelfish (plural barrelfishes or barrelfish)

barrelfishes (plural)
barrelfish (plural)

The black rudderfish, Hyperoglyphe perciformis


rudderfish

rudderfish (plural rudderfishes or rudderfish)

rudderfishes (plural)
rudderfish (plural)

Any of various not closely related fish that have the habit of following ships

Centrolophus niger, a medusafish, the only member of the genus Centrolophus.


crucian

From Low German karusse, karutze, possibly from Medieval Latin coracinus (“kind of river fish”). Also compare German Karausche.

der

Carassius carassius
Carassius carassius#Translingual

A small greenish-brown carp, Carassius carassius, farmed in parts of Europe.


tarwhine

A yellowish sea bream, Rhabdosargus sarba


threadfin

en-noun

threadfin (plural threadfins or threadfin)

From thread + fin. Named so because of the thread-like free sensory filaments at the base of each of their pectoral fins.

Any of many perciform fish of the family Polynemidae.


bandfish

bandfish (plural bandfishes or bandfish)

Any of many perciform fish of the family Cepolidae


batfish

Any of several spade-shaped, laterally compressed, reef-dwelling tropical fish of the genus Platax.


squawfish

squawfish (plural squawfishes or squawfish)

A cyprinid fish of the genus Ptychocheilus, a voracious predator on small trout and salmon.


scaldfish

scaldfish (plural scaldfishes or scaldfish)

Any of several edible flatfish of the genus Arnoglossus.


shovelhead

Sphyrna tiburo
Sphyrna tiburo#Translingual


bonnethead

A form of hammerhead shark (Sphyrna tiburo)


stumpnose

(South Africa) Any of several sea breams of the genus Rhabdosargus.


houndfish

houndfish (plural houndfishes or houndfish)

Tylosurus crocodilus, a large gamefish of the family Belonidae.


beardfish

beardfish (plural beardfishes or beardfish)

Wikispecies beardfish (canonical)
beardfishes (plural)
beardfish (plural)

Any of various deep-sea fish, of the family Polymixiidae, that have a pair of long hyoid barbels.


beardie

(Scotland) A fish, a bearded loach or stone loach (Barbatula barbatula).


plectognath

Any fish of the order Tetraodontiformes.


sparoid

From Latin sparus (“gilt-head, a certain kind of fish”) + -oid (“resembling”, suffix forming an adjective).

suffix

Of or pertaining to the family, Sparidae, of deep-bodied, spinous-finned marine fish, including the sea bream, porgy, scup, and sheepshead.


glassfish

en-noun

glassfish (plural glassfishes or glassfish)

Any of several not closely related small fish that have almost transparent bodies, especially those of the genera Ambassis or Chanda


roughy

Other deep creatures now being harvested or targeted as seafood include rattails, skates, squid, red crabs, orange roughy, black oreos, smooth oreos, hoki, blue ling, southern blue whiting, sablefish, black scabbard fish and spiny dogfish.

1995 December 26, William J. Broad, “Creatures of the Deep Find Their Way to the Table”, in The New York Times:

The orange roughy, Hoplostethus atlanticus.

(Australia) Any of several marine fish of the related genus Trachichthys, which have rough and spiny scales.


sewin

(Wales) Sea trout, a subspecies of brown trout (Salmo trutta morpha trutta).


razorfish

razorfish (plural razorfishes or razorfish)

Any of various not closely related fish, including those of the genera Aeoliscus, Centriscus, and Xyrichtys.


sweetlips

Kenny Gamble, Dockside Dave’s manager and chef, has often heard the question since a Florida attorney general’s investigation revealed this year that 17 of 24 other restaurants in and around Tampa Bay were passing off cheaper imported fish — tilapia, bream, hake, sutchi, emperor, green weakfish, painted sweetlips — as grouper.

2007 May 27, Lynn Waddell, “That Grouper on the Menu? Turns Out It Was a Fish Tale”, in New York Times:

Any member of the genus Plectorhinchus of fish with large fleshy lips.

gulyabaw

any member of the genus Plectorhinchus of fish with large fleshy lips


boarfish

boarfish (plural boarfishes or boarfish)

Any of a number of fish that have a projecting snout, in either of two families:


shubunkin

shubunkin (plural shubunkins or shubunkin)

/ʃuːˈbʊŋkɪn/


rohu

From Hindi रोहू (rohū), from Sanskrit रोहित (rohita, “reddish”), due to the reddish tint of the fish's fins.

“Well,” said the fakir, “when you come to the Bhagirathi river you will see a big fish, a Rohu; and you must get him to carry you to Prince Majnun's country, or you will never reach it.”

1969, Joseph Jacobs, Indian Fairy Tales, page 53:

He caught a Rahu fish weighing around three kilos, and brought home a pair of pigeons for his wife to cook.

2011, Arupa Patangia Kalita, translated by Deepika Phukan, The Story of Felanee:

A freshwater fish, Labeo rohita, of the carp family, found throughout Asia.


thresher shark

I went diving […] and saw manta rays and thresher sharks, the sharks are like sickles, like polished steel, they look almost man-made except for their worried little faces, and they move like – like they’re not moving, the water is undisturbed by them.

2023, Samantha Harvey, Orbital, Jonathan Cape, page 57:

Any of the species of sharks in the genus Alopias, three of which are extant.


sparid

Any of several perciform fishes of the family Sparidae


barracudina

Any of the elongated ray-finned fish of the order Paralepididae.


sharpchin flyingfish

sharpchin flyingfish (plural sharpchin flyingfishes)

A species of flying fish (Fodiator acutus), of the western coast of Africa.


backspot flying fish

backspot flying fish (plural backspot flying fish)

A particular species of flying fish, Cheilopogon dorsomacula.


whitetip

Triaenodon obesus
Triaenodon obesus#Translingual

Any of various animals having a white tip or tips on the body.

The whitetip reef shark, Triaenodon obesus.


oceanic whitetip shark

oceanic whitetip shark (plural oceanic whitetip sharks)

Carcharhinus longimanus
Carcharhinus longimanus#Translingual

a large pelagic shark, taxonomic name Carcharhinus longimanus, characterized by the white tips on the fin, often prone to attack humans.


whitetip reef shark

whitetip reef shark (plural whitetip reef sharks)

A small species of requiem shark, Triaenodon obesus.


snaggletooth

snaggletooth (plural snaggleteeth or snaggletooths)

snaggleteeth (plural)
snaggletooths (plural)

(plural: snaggletooths) A predatory fish of the genus Astronesthes, so-called because of its teeth.


snipefish

snipefish (plural snipefishes or snipefish)

Either of the two species of fish of the genus Macroramphosus.


silurus

(zoology) Any fish of the genus Silurus; a sheatfish.


prowfish

prowfish (plural prowfishes or prowfish)

Subtropical perciform saltwater fish found in the North Pacific; Zaprora silenus.


chum salmon

From Chinook Jargon tzum (“spotted, marked”) (from Chinook) + English salmon.

Oncorhynchus keta
Oncorhynchus keta#Translingual


allice

Both species of this fish resemble an overgrown herring: of these the allice is the largest, being often met with of as much as two feet in length[…]

1843, William Hughes, Fish, how to choose and how to dress, page 105:


pumpkinseed

From pumpkin + seed. The fish is so named for its small body that is shaped much like a pumpkin seed.

A North American sunfish; Lepomis gibbosus.


sergeant major loach

sergeant major loach (plural sergeant major loaches)

A South Asian freshwater fish, commonly held in aquarium, Botia rostrata.


finnock

A possible anglicisation of Scottish Gaelic fionnag (“young salmon”). Compare fionnag (“whiting”), a calque of English whiting, from fionn (“white”).

der

Previous to their descent, I caught in all, not far from the tideway, about half-a-dozen finnocks, on two or three different occasions.

1866, Thomas Tod Stoddart, An Angler's Rambles and Angling Songs, page 46:

Have you ever had a day's finnock-fishing? If you have not, and you happen to be a keen disciple of Izaak Walton, take my advice and seize the first opportunity of doing so.

Emigrating smolts were captured by fyke net in 1998 and early 1999. […] The returns to date suggest that the sea survival of stocked fish returning as finnock is consistently lower than that of wild smolts and that the survival of both groups to mature sea trout is almost non-existent at present.

2006, Graeme Harris, Nigel Milner, editors, Sea Trout:

(Scotland) A young sea trout, in the year after they return to fresh water after their smolt migration stage.


arapaima

/ˌɑːɹəˈpaɪmə/

A large carnivorous predatory South American tropical freshwater fish of species Arapaima gigas.


copper shark

Carcharhinus brachyurus, a species of requiem shark characterized by its narrow, hook-shaped upper teeth, lack of a prominent ridge between the dorsal fins, and plain bronze coloration.


bronze whaler

Below you, two bronze whalers, tiny with distance, begin to wind their way up to you as if on submarine updraughts, and you register them, in your slow glide to the surface, as hardly bigger than the bubbles in your trail.

1993, Tim Winton, Land's Edge, Picador, published 2014, page 51:


narrowtooth shark

en-noun

narrowtooth shark (plural narrowtooth sharks)


Nile perch

Nile perch (plural Nile perches or Nile perch)

Nile perches (plural)
Nile perch (plural)

Lates niloticus
Lates niloticus#Translingual

Lates niloticus, a species of freshwater fish in family Latidae of order Perciformes.


rose fish

rose fish (plural rose fishes or rose fish)

From rose + fish, since it is usually bright red when fully grown.

Sebastes norvegicus
Sebastes norvegicus#Translingual

A large marine food fish, of species Sebastes norvegicus, that lives off the North Atlantic coasts of Europe and North America.


bluefin tuna

bluefin tuna (usually uncountable, plural bluefin tunas)

Any member of genus Thunnus of tuna, having blue fins, including:

Atlantic bluefin tuna (Thunnus thynnus), found in both the western and eastern Atlantic Ocean, and also
in the Mediterranean Sea.

longtail tuna (Thunnus tonggol), found in tropical Indo-West Pacific waters.

Pacific bluefin tuna (Thunnus orientalis), found widely in the northern Pacific Ocean and locally in the south.

southern bluefin tuna (Thunnus maccoyii) of waters of the southern hemisphere.

The San Juan market is Mexico City's most famous deli of exotic meats, where an adventurous shopper can hunt down hard-to-find critters […] But the priciest items in the market aren't the armadillo steaks or even the bluefin tuna.

2013 July 26, Nick Miroff, “Mexico gets a taste for eating insects […] ”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 189, number 7, page 32:


spiny dogfish

Squalus acanthias
Squalus acanthias#Translingual

Squalus acanthias, one of the best known of the dogfish which are members of the family Squalidae in the order Squaliformes


Atlantic halibut

Atlantic halibut (plural Atlantic halibuts or Atlantic halibut)

Atlantic halibuts (plural)
Atlantic halibut (plural)

Hippoglossus hippoglossus
Hippoglossus hippoglossus#Translingual

Hippoglossus hippoglossus, a species of halibut, a flatfish of the family Pleuronectidae.


huchen

Hucho hucho, a species of freshwater fish in the salmon family (Salmonidae) of order Salmoniformes.


Danube bleak

Chalcalburnus chalcoides
Chalcalburnus chalcoides#Translingual

Alburnus chalcoides
Alburnus chalcoides#Translingual

A species of ray-finned fish in the Cyprinidae family (Chalcalburnus chalcoides, Alburnus chalcoides)


vobla

The „vobla“ (Leuciscus rutilus Lin.) is one of the most important food fishes of this region. […] This vobla is very fat and is more stoutly built, than the northern roach, but cannot otherwise be distinguished from the same.

1900 September, Einar Lönnberg, “Short notes on Caspian fishes”, in Revue Internationale de Pêche et de Pisciculture, Volume II, Number 2, Russian Imperial Society of Fishculture and Fisheries, page 4

In this connexion, the cost of “vobla,”¹ which to some extent replaces the herring, has soared upwards. […] Dried “vobla,” which is a popular article of food, and was formerly sold at one copeck per fish, now sells at from 5 to 10 copecks for the smaller fish, and 20 copecks for the larger. ¶ […] ¶ The only exceptions to the general rule are white sturgeon, salmon and to some extent “vobla.”
¹ An inferior species of herring.

1918, I. Pelferoff, “Fisheries”, Chapter IX of Arthur Raffalovich (editor), Russia: Its Trade and Commerce, P. S. King & Son, page 221

For most it was bread and vobla, an awful salt-fish, nicknamed “Soviet ham,” whose bones would splinter and damage the intestines. […] But in the spring of 1921, […] the average employee was back to a half pound of bread, one pound of cereal, and two pounds of vobla.

1989, Mary McAuley, “Bread without the Bourgeoisie”, in Diane Koenker et al., editors, Party, State, and Society in the Russian Civil War, Indiana University Press, →ISBN, page 167:

Rutilus caspicus
Rutilus caspicus#Translingual

The Caspian roach (Rutilus caspicus), formerly considered a subspecies of the common roach.


Caspian roach

a fish found in brackish coastal waters of the northern and northwestern Caspian Sea (Rutilus caspicus, formerly recognized as subspecies of the common roach)


coho salmon

Oncorhynchus kisutch
Oncorhynchus kisutch#Translingual

A species of anadromous fish in the salmon family (Oncorhynchus kisutch)


brandling

brandling (countable and uncountable, plural brandlings)

And you also find another kind of worm called a brandling, which is striped and smells like an earwig, and which is very good bait for perch.

1939, George Orwell, Coming Up for Air, part 2, chapter 4:

A small, red earthworm, Eisenia fetida, used for bait in freshwater fishing.


haye

From Dutch haai (“shark”) or West Flemish haaie (formerly haeye), from the Old Norse hái, a short form of hákarl (“shark”) (a compound of há- (“marks fish of the shark kind”) + karl (“a man”)). The German Hai, the Swedish haj and the Danish haj are from the same source.

prefix

They have of Hayens or Tuberons which devour men, especially such as fish for Pearles.

1613, Samuel Purchas, Pilgrimage, page 504:

Other unlucky accidents oft-times happen in these seas, as, when (especially in becalmings) men swim in the bearing ocean, the greedy Hayen, called Tuberon or Shark, armed with a double row of venomous teeth, pursue them, directed by a little rhombus or musculus, variously streaked and coloured with blue and white, that scuds to and fro to bring the shark intelligence.

1665, Sir Thomas Herbert, A Relation of Some Yeares Travaile Begunne Anno 1626, into Afrique and the Greater Asia, page 6:

They do not fling away the Hays in Spain, but sell them.

1694, Account of Several Late Voyages and Discoveries, book 2, page 139:

The Haye doth not spawn like other fishes, nor lay eggs (as the tortoise does), but casts its young in the manner of quadrupeds. [¶]These fish do no manner of damage on the whole Gold Coast; but as Fida and Ardra, where the slave-trade is managed, they are extraordinarily ravenous, and in my opinion fiercer than the most voracious animal in the world. […]
[¶]When the Haye seizes his Prey, he is obliged to turn himself on his Back, because his mouth is placed far behind and low, wherefore he cannot come at any thing upwards. [¶]When we sometimes take one of these fish and haul him on board with a rope, we are always obliged to keep a distance; for besides his sharp teeth, he strikes with his tail, which is prodigiously strong, and whoever comes near him loses either an arm or a leg, or at least hath it broken to pieces.

1705, an English translation of Letter XV of William Bosman’s 1704 Dutch Nauwkeurige Beschryving vande Guinese Gould- Tand- en Slave-kust (New and Accurate Description of the Coast of Guinea), published in A general collection of the best and most interesting voyages, by John Pinkerton, in 1814; volume 16, pages 451

There are in the Cape sea two sorts of Sharks. The Cape-Europeans call ‛em Hayes.

1731, P. Kolben, translated by Guido Medley, Present State of the Cape of Good Hope, volume 2, page 193:

The Frozen Ocean, likewise, teems with the NARHWAL, the POTT-FISH, from whose brain spermaceti is prepared, the SEA-DOG, DOLPHIN, SEA-HOG, HAY-FISH, sea-cow, the sea-bear, the sealion […]

1799, William Tooke, View of the Russian Empire During the Reign of Catherine II, volume 3, page 105:

Haye, a peculiar ground-shark on the coast of Guinea.

1867, Admiral William Henry Smyth, The Sailor’s Word-book: An Alphabetical Digest of Nautical Terms, Haye


severum

The banded cichlid, Heros severus (previously Cichlasoma severum), a freshwater tropical fish of South America.


jurel

The jack, edible fish of the genera Caranx or Trachurus.


chinquapin

Like its cognate / alternative form chinkapin, chinquapin is an alteration of chechinquamin / chincomen (the form found in early records), from an Algonquian language (sometimes said specifically to be from Powhatan). The final element is *mini (“berry, fruit”). Hewitt suggested that the first element was a word meaning "large, great" cognate to xinkw- (“big, large, great”).

A redear sunfish, a freshwater fish of the southeastern US (Lepomis microlophus).


jack mackerel

Any of various edible fish, especially of genus Trachurus, but also genera Caranx, Acanthocybium and Euthynnus.


garpike

(especially US) A freshwater fish in the family Lepisosteidae.

(especially UK) A saltwater fish in the family Belonidae.


pikehead

A type of mouthbrooder (fish) of the family Luciocephalidae.


sandre

From French sandre, from German Zander. Doublet of zander.


foodfish

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

While the present conservation of Maryland fisheries is largely concerned with the oyster, which promises such great future returns, the foodfishes should not be neglected.

1904, “Report of the Conservation commission of Maryland for 1908-1909”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name), number 3:

There was little discussion of tilapia as a foodfish during the 1950s and 1960s, but there was interest in using some tilapia species for weed control.

1996, Robert R. Stickney, Aquaculture in the United States: a historical survey, page 186:

Most of the 30 or so emperors are valuable foodfishes in the Indo-Pacific region.

2003, G. K. Yearsley, P. R. Last, Robert D. Ward, Australian seafood handbook: an identification guide to imported species, →ISBN, page 64:

Reported harvests were in the order of 19 600 tonnes for fishmeal, 1 250 tonnes for processed sharks, 150 tonnes for shells, and 1 300 tonnes for foodfishes.

2006, Cassandra De Young, Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, Review of the state of world marine capture fisheries management: Indian Ocean, →ISBN, page 216:


viperfish

en-noun

viperfish (plural viperfishes or viperfish)

Any of the genus Chauliodus of deepwater fishes, fierce predators with long, needle-like teeth and hinged lower jaws, found mainly in tropical and temperate waters.


weaverfish

weaverfish (plural weaverfishes or weaverfish)

weaverfishes (plural)
weaverfish (plural)

A fish in family Trachinidae, with venomous dorsal spines, the weever.


deductor

From Latin dēductor (“guide; founder”). See deduce.

(historical) The formal patron of a Roman colony.


linesider

These were chunky, feisty linesiders; most were between 20 and 24 inches.

2007 June 23, Norm Zeigler, “The Low-Profile Westport River Offers a High Yield of Fish”, in New York Times:


bigeye

Any fish in the taxonomic family Priacanthidae, which have large eyes.

There were Port Jackson sharks with a brown back, a whitish belly, and eleven rows of teeth, bigeye sharks with necks marked by a large black spot encircled in white and resembling an eye, and Isabella sharks whose rounded snouts were strewn with dark speckles.

2001, Jules Verne, translated by F. P. Walter, 20,000 Leagues Under the Seas:

The relatively large eyes may enable the bigeye to feed at lower light intensity than other tunas.

1986, Robin Mahon, Report and proceedings of the Expert Consultation on Shared Fishery Resources of the Lesser Antilles Region, Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations:

The percentages of bigeye in the catches were relatively high during the early to mid 1950s, but then levelled off at less than 5 percent of the total catches.

2007, William H. Bayliff, Jacek Majkowski, editors, Methodological Workshop on the Management of Tuna Fishing Capacity:

Any of certain fish or shark species identified by their large eyes, in particular bigeye tuna, Thunnus obesus.


school shark

Galeorhinus galeus
Galeorhinus galeus#Translingual

Galeorhinus galeus, a hound shark of the family Triakidae, the only member of the genus Galeorhinus.


rosy-lipped batfish

rosy-lipped batfish (plural rosy-lipped batfishes)


red-lipped batfish

red-lipped batfish (plural red-lipped batfish)

A variety of batfish, Ogcocephalus darwini, native to the Galapagos Islands and Peru, which is noted for its bright red lips and inability to swim.


kitefin shark

Kitefin sharks (Dalatias licha) have been known about since the 18th century, but it was only in January 2020 that scientists saw them glowing in the dark for the first time.

2022 November 9, Helen Scales, The Guardian:

A small sharks of the family Dalatiidae, especially of species Dalatias licha.


coley

Pollachius virens
Pollachius virens#Translingual


eely

en-adj

eely (comparative eelier, superlative eeliest)

eelier (comparative)
eeliest (superlative)

The great ugly sharky fish was hooked forward by Josh and placed in a great basket, where it lay writhing its eely tail, and flapping its wing-like fins as the boat slowly progressed, and bait after bait was replaced, many being untouched, the thornback, skate, or ray being the only fish taken.

That was a great long eely thing; but Joe Cross here says this was more like a great turtle, with flippers and a long neck, and a head like a snake."

1904, George Manville Fenn, The Ocean Cat's Paw:

Any eely creature that manages to blow itself up from “Pink, lank and warm” to a long wiener doing the hula tends to seize the imagination of us moderns.

Veteran alto saxist Lou Donaldson faces the audience with a raised eyebrow and a toothy grin, and his horn's high-pitched, eely timbre--which still has plenty of the grease that made him a soul-jazz hero in the 60s and 70s--complements his squeaky voice.

2004 August 13, Neil Tesser, “Lou Donaldson Quartet with Dr. Lonnie Smith”, in Chicago Reader:

Resembling an eel: long, thin and slippery.


myxinid

Any member of the taxonomic class Myxini, the hagfish.


mummichog

Fundulus heteroclitus
Fundulus heteroclitus#Translingual

Any of species Fundulus heteroclitus, hardy killifishes, found in brackish and coastal waters of the United States and Canada.


gulper eel

Any of many fish of the order Saccopharyngiformes that resemble eels, and which are sometimes treated as true eels, members of Anguilliformes.

A pelican eel of species Eurypharynx pelecanoides of deep-sea eels.


blue cod

Any member of species Parapercis colias of temperate marine fish of the family Pinguipedidae.


shark attack

(US military, informal) Shouting and yelling by drill instructors at enlistees on their first day of training.


dragonfish

en-noun

dragonfish (plural dragonfishes or dragonfish)

dragonfishes (plural)
dragonfish (plural)

long-tailed dragonfish (Pegasus volitans

Other fish thought to resemble dragons or fish of the family Stomiidae:

Short dragonfish (Eurypegasus draconis).

Any fossil fish of genus †Draconichthys.


blue shark

The blue shark is long in almost all respects; long snout, long tail, long body, and especially long, curved pectoral fins.

1983, Richard Ellis, The Book of Sharks, Knopf, →ISBN, page 126:

A long blue shark, resembling a great white shark but smaller, of the species Prionace glauca.


longnose gar

Longnose Gar, with jaws twice as long as head, may be 5 feet long.

1967, George K. Reid, edited by Herbert S. Zim and George S. Fichter, Pond Life, New York: Golden Press, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 128:

A large freshwater garfish with very long slender snout, Lepisosteus osseus.


shishamo

Borrowed from Japanese 柳葉魚 (shishamo, literally “willow leaf fish”), ultimately from Ainu スサㇺ (susam).

bor

Spirinchus lanceolatus, a Japanese smelt.


scup

Shortened form of Narragansett mishcùp (“porgy”) or its plural mishcùppaûog. The singular was also borrowed as mishcup, while another shortening of the plural yields the synonym paugie. The word was also borrowed as scuppaug.

1995, “sheepshead”, entry in Percy Russell, Anita Williams, The Nutrition and Health Dictionary, page 391,
A saltwater fish, a cousin of porgies and scups. The sheepshead has large, broad incisor teeth, much like a sheep.

Scup, in the Bay also called porgy, maiden, and fairmaid, are rather plain-looking fish — dull silver with 12 to 15 indistinct vertical stripes, flecked with light blue on their sides.

2006, Alice Jane Lippson, Robert L. Lippson, Life in the Chesapeake Bay, page 276:

On a lark, he took a small scup, or porgy, and a stamp pad and demonstrated how to make a print.

2007 August 8, Brett Martin, “First a Hook, Then Ink: An Artist’s Catch”, in New York Times:

A common sparoid food fish, Stenotomus chrysops, of temperate regions of the Atlantic coast of North America; the porgy.


mojarra

I assumed they were farm fish, but Gorinsky, a friend and local fishing guide who has cast a line for everything from 6-inch mojarra to 300-pound marlin, assured me otherwise.

2007 August 16, Dave Sherwood, “Above the Clouds, It’s Almost Heaven, Costa Rica”, in New York Times:

Any perciform fish in the family Gerreidae, often used as bait.


brookie

From Afrikaans broekie, diminutive of broek (“pants”), from Dutch broek (“pants”). Cognate with Dutch broekje (“shorts”). Doublet of breeches and britches.

And the few skirts which are past remaking are carefully cut down into small brookies for the young hopeful, who will get the last ounce of wear out of them.

1920, The Homestead - Issues 228-243, page 19:

[…] you cannot do a poopy in your brookie, […]

1973, Elseviers Magazine - Volume 29, Issues 35-43, page 137:

I notice, too, that the child is wearing red brookies [shorts].

2023, Martin Brunt, No One Got Cracked Over the Head for No Reason:


squaretail

A perciform fish of the genus Tetragonurus, found in tropical and subtropical oceans.

Salvelinus fontinalis
Salvelinus fontinalis#Translingual

(Maine) The brook trout, a fish of the species Salvelinus fontinalis, found in North America.


petrale sole

en-noun

petrale sole (plural petrale soles or petrale sole)

petrale soles (plural)
petrale sole (plural)

Eopsetta jordani, an edible demersal flatfish.


humuhumu

Shortening of Hawaiian humuhumunukunukuāpuaʻa, under influence from humuhumu (“triggerfish”).

And so he does: Jules travels the globe to hug, among others, a chimpanzee, a giraffe, a gnu, a panda, a wombat and a humuhumu fish (fun to read aloud, whether you know how to pronounce it or not).

2007 November 11, Bruce Handy, “Escapes”, in New York Times:


orfe

19th century. Borrowed from German orfe, orf, possibly from French orphe or Old High German orvo, from Latin orphus (“gilt-head bream”), from Ancient Greek ὀρφώς (orphṓs, “sea perch”).
May be related to Old English eorp, earp (“dark, dusky”), Old High German erpf (“brown”), Old Norse jarpr (“brown”), and Ancient Greek ὀρφνός (orphnós, “dark”).

der

Leuciscus idus
Leuciscus idus#Translingual


guapote

I had caught wild trout in the mountains, small snook in the surf, even a rainbow-colored guapote in a city park pond in the country's capital, San José.

2007 December 25, Dave Sherwood, “Fishing and Floating in Costa Rica”, in New York Times:

Parachromis managuensis, a cichlid fish native to Nicaragua.


doctorfish

en-noun

doctorfish (plural doctorfishes or doctorfish)

doctorfishes (plural)
doctorfish (plural)

Walking at the Brixton market among the parrotfish, doctorfish and butterfish, Effa Edusie is surrounded by pieces of her childhood in Ghana.

2008 January 15, Elisabeth Rosenthal, “Europe’s Appetite for Seafood Propels Illegal Trade”, in New York Times:

Either of the fish Garra rufa and Cyprinion macrostomus, which feed on dead skin while leaving the healthy skin intact.


grassie

The one thing I didn’t want to do was spook ^([sic]) a grassie by hastily walking down the sidewalk.

2010, Jeff Currier, “Not All Carp Species are Equal”, in JeffCurrier.com, archived from the original on 2014-04-27:

my pattern is a lot less glamorous, which is also why i think the grassie took it

2013 December 30, Josh Cohn, Tidal Potomac Fly Rodders (Usenet):

2023, theloniousbunk, “Picked this grassie out of the canal. 5wt with 9lb leader.”, in Reddit.com, archived from the original on 2023-11-10

(recreational fishing) A grass carp; a white amur.


quillback

Carpiodes cyprinus, a freshwater fish of the sucker family with a long filament that extends back from the dorsal fin, native to the eastern and central United States.


yellowfish

yellowfish (plural yellowfishes or yellowfish)

yellowfishes (plural)
yellowfish (plural)

Certain species of the genus Labeobarbus of mid-sized ray-finned fish.


Chinese paddlefish

Chinese paddlefish (plural Chinese paddlefish)

An extinct freshwater paddlefish (†Psephurus gladius).


Russian sturgeon

Russian sturgeon (plural Russian sturgeons or Russian sturgeon)

Russian sturgeons (plural)
Russian sturgeon (plural)

A Eurasian species of sturgeon (Acipenser gueldenstaedtii).


starry sturgeon

starry sturgeon (plural starry sturgeons)


spotted wolffish

spotted wolffish (plural spotted wolffishes or spotted wolffish)

spotted wolffishes (plural)
spotted wolffish (plural)

A North Atlantic species of wolffish, Anarhichas minor.


payara

In his career as a producer and host of hunting and fishing shows for cable television, Trevor Gowdy has tangled with a wide range of trophy game fish, including 1,000-pound hammerheads in the Florida Keys, giant stingrays off the coast of Thailand and razor-toothed payara below Venezuela’s Uraima Falls.

2008 June 21, Peter Kaminsky, “Taking His Cue From the Fish”, in New York Times:

Hydrolycus scomberoides, a Venezuelan gamefish with two long fangs protruding from the lower jaw.


black scabbardfish

black scabbardfish (plural black scabbardfish or black scabbardfishes)

black scabbardfish (plural)
black scabbardfishes (plural)

A North Atlantic fish of the cutlassfish family Trichiuridae with an extremely elongated, eel-like body, Aphanopus carbo.


Atlantic tomcod

Atlantic tomcod (plural Atlantic tomcods or Atlantic tomcod)

Atlantic tomcods (plural)
Atlantic tomcod (plural)

Microgadus tomcod
Microgadus tomcod#Translingual

A gadiform fish of the northwest Atlantic, Microgadus tomcod.


Arctic cod

Arctic cod (plural Arctic cod or Arctic cods)

Arctic cod (plural)
Arctic cods (plural)

A north Atlantic fish of the family Gadidae (Boreogadus saida).


European smelt

Osmerus eperlanus
Osmerus eperlanus#Translingual

Any smelt of species Osmerus eperlanus, common in fresh waters of northern Europe.


greater argentine

greater argentine (plural greater argentines)

A northern Atlantic fish, herring-smelt (Argentina silus, syn. Salmo silus)


blacksmelt

Any of various ray-finned fish in the genus Bathylagus.


stone loach

Barbatula barbatula, a species of ray-finned fish in the family Nemacheilidae or subfamily Nemacheilinae in family Balitoridae (hillstream loaches).


firefish

firefish (plural firefishes or firefish)

Any of various fish of the genera Pterois and Parapterois.


queenfish

queenfish (plural queenfishes or queenfish)


polar cod

polar cod (plural polar cod or polar cods)

A north Atlantic fish of the family Gadidae (cod, haddock, whitings and pollock), Boreogadus saida.


Atlantic pomfret

Atlantic pomfret (plural Atlantic pomfrets)

Brama brama, the largest species of the pomfret family Bramidae, found in Atlantic, Indian and Pacific Oceans.


warmouth

From war + mouth; the fish has stripes around the mouth that resemble war paint.

Lepomis gulosus, a species of freshwater sunfish native to America.


whistlefish

(dialect, archaic) A fish: the gossat or rockling.


polyodont

Any paddlefish of the family Polyodontidae.


red bandfish

A species of bandfish found in the eastern Atlantic and Mediterranean from Senegal to Norway, Cepola macrophthalma (syn. Cepola rubescens).


Bombay duck

Uncertain. The first component may be a modification of Marathi बोंबील (bombīl), the local Marathi name for the fish. The second has been dubiously associated by folk etymology with dak (“Indian postal system”).

For her sake he recounted his Indian experiences — told of his arrival in India; […] of the Bombay Ducks, that celebrated European regiment, of whom every man could drink a quart of rum a day, and fight a pitched battle if need were.

1872, Sir George Webbe Dasent, Three to One, page 42:

(India, historical, slang) A member of the Bombay regiments of the East India Company's army.


Pacific herring

Pacific herring (plural Pacific herring)

A species of the herring family native to north Pacific Ocean from Yellow Sea to Baja California; Clupea pallasii.


tomcod

From French tacaud?, probably influenced by Tom, tom.

Any of species Microgadus tomcod, of edible cod found in the Atlantic.


marena

Borrowed from German Maräne (“whitefish”).

bor+

(archaic) A European whitefish Coregonus maraena.


pangasius

Any of various edible freshwater fish of the genus Pangasius, native to southeast Asia, especially the iridescent shark, Pangasius hypophthalmus.

haimonni

fish of the genus Pangasius — see also iridescent shark, panga


umbrine

Borrowed from translingual Umbrina, coined by French zoologist Georges Cuvier in 1817 on page 174 of Volume I of Le règne animal distribué d'après son organisation as a Latinization of French Ombrines (“shadowy ones”) from ombre + -ines, Old French onbre, ombre, from Latin umbra, probably from Old Latin *omra, possibly from a Proto-Indo-European *h₂mr-u-, *h₂mrup-.

coin

Any of several food fishes of the genus Umbrina of drums.


tarek

From Armenian տառեխ (taṙex). Doublet of bottarga.


sixgill

“Shark After Dark” features scientists swimming with their subjects as they investigate their nocturnal feeding habits; residents of the Seattle area will be interested to know that well inside Puget Sound, quite large sixgill sharks come to the surface for dinner within 150 feet of shore.

2009 August 1, Mike Hale, “Ah, That Jersey Shore: The Fish Are Really Biting”, in New York Times:

Having six pairs of gill slits, as some sharks do.


sixgill

A shark with six pairs of gill slits (Hexanchus spp.).


hardtail

(countable, uncountable) (A) jack (edible fish of the genus Caranx or Trachurus).


roundfish

en-noun

roundfish (plural roundfishes or roundfish)

A round whitefish (Prosopium cylindraceum).

Cyprinus carpio
Cyprinus carpio#Translingual


lampriform

of or related to the order Lampridiformes of ray-finned fish


lampriform

Any of the fish in the order Lampridiformes


singletail

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A variety of goldfish with an undivided tail.


cutlassfish

cutlassfish (plural cutlassfishes or cutlassfish)

cutlassfishes (plural)
cutlassfish (plural)

A predatory perciform marine fish in the family Trichiuridae, with large sharp teeth and an eel-like appearance.


kelpfish

kelpfish (plural kelpfishes or kelpfish)

A perciform fish in the family Chironemidae, native to coastal Australia and New Zealand.


rhomboganoid

(zoology) A fish of the obsolete suborder Rhomboganoidei, roughly corresponding to the gars (Holostei).


pearlfish

pearlfish (plural pearlfishes or pearlfish)

Any of various slender marine fish of the family Carapidae, resembling eels.


Dolly Varden

Barnaby Rudge
Charles Dickens
Dolly Varden (costume)

After a lively, coquettish character in Charles Dickens' novel Barnaby Rudge.

A woman's outfit, briefly fashionable in Britain and America in the late nineteenth century, with a brightly patterned, usually flowered, dress with a polonaise overskirt gathered up and draped over a separate underskirt.

Dolly Varden crab
Dolly Varden crab#English

Dolly Varden is the staple catch. To a point that, after two days, we find ourselves feeling guilty trying to shake them free from our fly or giving plenty of slack in the hope that another Dolly finds early freedom. […] Often the biggest challenge of hooking a big trout is avoiding Dollies.

2017 November–December, Dean Oelschig, “Kamchatka: 61 Hours from Jo'burg”, in The Mission: The Cult of Fly Fishing, number 6, pages 54–55:

Dolly Varden trout
Dolly Varden trout#English


nefasch

(archaic) Any fish of the genus Distichodus.


nematognath

Formed as nemato- + -gnath after the scientific Latin Nēmatognathī.

(zoology, archaic) catfish; one of the Nematognathi, now called Siluriformes.


siscowet

From an Ojibwe word, given by some English dictionaries as pemitewiskawet ("fish with oily meat") (compare bimide (“grease”), -skaw- (“meat of a fish”), -e (“an incorporating final”)), perhaps via French ciscoette.

A freshwater fish from Lake Superior in the Great Lakes, a variety of the lake trout.


plunderfish

plunderfish (plural plunderfishes or plunderfish)

plunderfishes (plural)
plunderfish (plural)

Any of various Antarctic fish of the family Artedidraconidae.


sewen

(dialect) A British trout usually regarded as a variety (var. Cambricus) of the salmon trout.


sharksucker

Shark fishermen sometimes receive an unexpected bonus in the form of small fishes known as remoras, or sharksuckers, which are attached to the sharks by a sucking disk located on the top of the head.

1972, Earl Stannard Herald, Fishes of North America, page 155:

The sharksucker may be found free swimming but is most often found hitchhiking on a larger fish by attaching itself to the fish with the sucker disk on top of its head.

2007, Mike Lane, Angler's Guide to Fishes of the Gulf of Mexico, page 191:

Remoras and sharksuckers directly attach themselves to large sharks, Manta Rays, and large bony fish, feeding on scraps of their hosts' dinners and taking smaller fish not eaten by the host.

2012, Noble S. Proctor, A Field Guide to the Southeast Coast & Gulf of Mexico:


silver salmon

silver salmon (plural silver salmons or silver salmon)

silver salmons (plural)
silver salmon (plural)


horned pout

At length you slowly raise, pulling hand over hand, some horned pout squeaking and squirming to the upper air.

1854, Henry David Thoreau, Walden, Boston: Ticknor and Fields:

Ameiurus nebulosus
Ameiurus nebulosus#Translingual

A catfish native to the eastern United States, the brown bullhead, Ameiurus nebulosus.


klipfish

klipfish (countable and uncountable, plural klipfishes)

A fish of certain genera in the family Clinidae.


dobule

Leuciscus leuciscus
Leuciscus leuciscus#Translingual

(archaic) A common dace (Leuciscus leuciscus)


mangar

Luciobarbus esocinus
Luciobarbus esocinus#Translingual

Luciobarbus esocinus, a species of ray-finned fish in the genus Luciobarbus.


fishy wishy

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sea cock

A gurnard, such as the European red gurnard (Trigla pini).


namaycush

Borrowed from Cree ᓇᒣᑯᐢ (namekos, “lake trout”), from Proto-Algonquian *name·kwa (“lake trout”).

der

Salvelinus namaycush
Salvelinus namaycush#Translingual

(Canada, US) The togue: a large North American lake trout, Salvelinus namaycush, usually spotted with red.


numbfish

en-noun

numbfish (plural numbfish or numbfishes)

An electric ray of the family Narcinidae, capable of delivering numbing shocks.


osseter

From Russian осётр (osjótr, “sturgeon”).

(zoology) Acipenser gueldenstaedtii, the Russian sturgeon.


swellfish

swellfish (plural swellfishes or swellfish)

(zoology) Any plectognath fish that dilates itself, such as the pufferfish.


frostfish

frostfish (plural frostfishes or frostfish)

From frost + fish. In the case of the tomcod, so called because it is abundant on the New England coast in autumn at about when frost comes.


notidanian

(zoology) Any of various sharks of the obsolete family Notidanidae, at present corresponding to the Hexanchidae.


redfin

From red + fin. In the breeding season, the male has bright red fins.

The common shiner, a small North American dace, Luxilus cornutus.


barberfish

barberfish (plural barberfishes or barberfish)

barberfishes (plural)
barberfish (plural)

Johnrandallia nigrirostris, a cleaner fish.


oquassa

(archaic) A type of blueback trout, Salvelinus oquassa, specifically those found in the Rangeley Lakes Region of Maine. Now considered to be the same species as the Sunapee trout.


lancefish

lancefish (plural lancefishes or lancefish)

A slender marine fish of the genus Ammodytes, especially Ammodytes tobianus, found in British waters.


swallowfish

Chelidonichthys lucerna, the tub gurnard or sapphirine gurnard.


minny

All I know is, it doesn't seem strange in the turkeys, and same way I've seen rock-fish move like soldiers on a school of minnies; but for the plovers to do the like seemed all out of place, somehow[…]

1901, Charles Conrad Abbott, A naturalist's rambles about home:


ghostfish

ghostfish (plural ghostfishes or ghostfish)

From ghost + fish, from its pale colour.

The wrymouth, Cryptacanthodes maculatus.


guffer

In many respects, this is what marks out the true fartsmith from the amateur guffer[…]


horner

From Middle English horner, hornere, equivalent to horn + -er.

The British sand lance or sand eel, Hyperoplus lanceolatus.


derbio

A large European food fish, Trachinotus ovatus.


kiack

Common names for the alewife are gaspereau, river herring, sawbelly, or kiack.

2007, “Alewife (Alosa pseudoharengus)”, in Fisheries and Aquaculture—Government of Nova Scotia, retrieved 2011-11-30:

Finally, I visited a group of kiack fishermen down in Argyle. This was a new fishery to me. The kiack (also called gaspereau and alewife in other areas) is fished with a dip net out of small brooks in the Tusket River area.

2010, William Casselman, Nova Scotia Fish Word: Kiack, www.billcasselman.com (retrieved 29 Nov. 2011)

(Canada) Alosa pseudoharengus, a species of small freshwater fish, also known as the alewife.


trachinoid

en-adj

trachinoid (comparative more trachinoid, superlative most trachinoid)

more trachinoid (comparative)
most trachinoid (superlative)

(zoology) Of, pertaining to, or like fish of genus Trachinus (the weevers).


branlin

A small red worm or larva, used as bait for fish.


sea scorpion

Myoxocephalus scorpius
Myoxocephalus scorpius#Translingual

A European sculpin, Myoxocephalus scorpius (synonym Cottus scorpius), having the head armed with short spines.


gibfish

When a gib fish has found a stream that he likes , he makes a hole as a swine works in the ground with his nose , his mouth being nailed with the gib in its socket

1834, Thomas Medwin, The Angler in Wales: Or, Days and Nights of Sportsmen:

In Northumberland the male [salmon] is called a summercock, or gibfish

1885, Edward Hamilton, Recollections of Fly Fishing for Salmon, Trout, and Grayling:


malacopterygian

(archaic) (zoology) Any of the obsolete order of fish Malacopterygii.


holostean

(zoology) Any fish of the class or infraclass Holostei.


crossopterygian

From Crossopterygia + -an, Greek krossoí “tassels, fringe” + -o- + pterýgion “little wing or fin,” equivalent to pteryg- (stem of pterýx ) “wing, fin” + -ion + -an.

One consequence was that the crossopterygian fishes (distantly related to the famous ‘living fossil’ coelacanth Latimeria) were dethroned from their privileged position as ancestors.

2000, Richard Fortey, “No Such Thing as a Fish”, in London Review of Books, volume 22, number 13:

(zoology) Of or pertaining to the Crossopterygii, an infraclass of bony fish.


caranx

Any member of the fish genus Caranx; jacks, trevallies, or kingfishes.


ayu

Plecoglossus altivelis
Plecoglossus altivelis#Translingual

A sweetfish, an amphidromous fish of East Asia, the only member of its genus and family, Plecoglossus altivelis, named and prized for its sweet-tasting flesh. It is a game fish and is also subject to extensive aquaculture.


minow

he gets him into swifter and swifter streams, and there lies at the watch for any flie or Minow that comes neer

1653, Iz[aak] Wa[lton], The Compleat Angler or The Contemplative Man’s Recreation. Being a Discourse of Fish and Fishing, […], London: […] T. Maxey for Rich[ard] Marriot, […], →OCLC; reprinted as The Compleat Angler (Homo Ludens; 6), Nieuwkoop, South Holland, Netherlands: Miland Publishers, 1969, →ISBN:


hypural

From hypo- (“under”) + Ancient Greek οὐρά (ourá, “tail”) + -al.

af

hypural plate, hypural piece, hypural bone


goggler

A carangoid marine fish (Selar crumenophthalmus) with large, prominent eyes.


malapterurid

(zoology) Any fish in the family Malapteruridae; an electric catfish.


hepper

(archaic, Devon) A young salmon; a parr.


jentling

Squalius cephalus
Squalius cephalus#Translingual

Leuciscus cephalus
Leuciscus cephalus#Translingual

A chub (Squalius cephalus, syn. Leuciscus cephalus) found in the Danube.


inanga

(New Zealand) A fish, the jollytail (Galaxias maculatus).


matie

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

(UK and Scotland, archaic) A fat herring with undeveloped roe.


hornfish

en-noun

hornfish (plural hornfishes or hornfish)


sea raven

An American cottoid fish, Hemitripterus americanus, allied to the sculpins.


megalops

A large fish of species Megalops atlanticus (Atlantic tarpon).


ammodyte

From Latin ammodytes, from Ancient Greek "sand burrower, a kind of serpent".

(obsolete) One of the genus Ammodytes of fishes; the sand eel.


hornyhead

Any North American chubs of the genus Nocomis, especially Nocomis biguttatus.


scorpene

The scorpionfish, a marine food fish of the genus Scorpaena.


lepidosiren

From lepido- + Ancient Greek Σειρήν (Seirḗn, “Siren”).


mulley

Streamlined for action thin, flat and long, it mouth armed with two broad lines of sharp teeth – the mulley is all that it is said to be, a "fresh water shark", an eater of offal and a killer of fish.

1956, The March of India - Volume 8, page 15:

A closer look revealed a more silvery colouration and proper teeth, identifying it as a mulley (Wallagu attu). It weighed around twenty pounds, and to prove it was no fluke, I caught three smaller.

I was overwhelmed with mixed feelings of triumph and sorrow I must admit, as I watched the Mulley come swimming along reluctantly, a beautiful, sleek supple black-seeming fish.

2013, Simren Kaur, Fin Feather and Field, page 134:

A giant Asian catfish, Wallagonia Attu found in India, Sri Lanka, Burma, Indochina, Thailand, Java, and Sumatra.


cheven

(archaic, dialectal) A river fish, the chub.


lake trout

lake trout (plural lake trouts or lake trout)

lake trouts (plural)
lake trout (plural)

A large species of trout found in lakes in North America, Salvelinus namaycush.


melanure

From Ancient Greek μελάνουρος (melánouros, “saddled sea bream”) from μελανός (melanós) (genitive of μέλας (mélas, “black”)) + οὐρά (ourá, “tail”).

uder

(obsolete) A small fish of the Mediterranean, Oblada melanura


weeverfish

en-noun

weeverfish (plural weeverfishes or weeverfish)

weeverfishes (plural)
weeverfish (plural)

weever (type of fish in family Trachinidae)


weatherfish

weatherfish (plural weatherfishes or weatherfish)

weatherfishes (plural)
weatherfish (plural)

A loach of the genus Misgurnus
especially, Misgurnus fossilis


weather loach

A loach of the genus Misgurnus, the behavior of which changes in response to changes in barometric pressure.


whiptail gulper

whiptail gulper (plural whiptail gulpers)

A species of gulper eel, Saccopharynx schmidti


white croaker

Pennahia argentata, a species of croaker found in the Northwest Pacific


white marlin

A marlin of species Kajikia albida (syn. Tetrapturus albidus).


yellowmargin triggerfish

yellowmargin triggerfish (plural yellowmargin triggerfish or yellowmargin triggerfishes)

yellowmargin triggerfish (plural)
yellowmargin triggerfishes (plural)

A species of triggerfish, Pseudobalistes flavimarginatus


tonguefish

tonguefish (plural tonguefishes or tonguefish)

tonguefishes (plural)
tonguefish (plural)

Members of the family Cynoglossidae, the tonguefishes are for the most part too small to be of much interest as food fishes.

1988, Gar Goodson, Fishes of the Pacific Coast, page 163:

The tonguefishes are flatfishes found in the tropical and subtropical seas of the world, hut some species are found in freshwater hahitats (see Achiridae for a discussion of flatfishes).

1997, David W. Greenfield, Jamie E. Thomerson, Fishes of the Continental Waters of Belize, page 252:

But the tonguefish are unaffected by the noxious gases.
The ”narked" fish end up as chow for the tonguefish.

2010, Pat Senson, Nasty, Brutish, and Short: The Quirks and Quarks Guide to Animal Sex and Other Weird Behaviour, page 249:

Any of the flatfishes in the taxonomic family Cynoglossidae, distinguished by the presence of a long hook on the snout overhanging the mouth.


topminnow

From top + minnow, since they swim near the surface.

Any of the ray-finned fish in the taxonomic family Fundulidae.


jawfish

Any of many marine fish, of the family Opistognathidae, that have large mouths.


blue-eye

Fish of the family Pseudomugilidae, native to Australia and New Guinea.


eelblenny

Any fish of genus Lumpenus, resembling an eel, found in subarctic waters, especially Lumpenus sagitta and Lumpenus fabricii (slender eelblenny).


becker

Pagrus pagrus
Pagrus pagrus#Translingual

(archaic) A European fish, Pagrus pagrus


coralfish

coralfish (plural coralfishes or coralfish)

Certain fish of the butterflyfish family (Chaetodontidae spp.).


ganoid

Ancient Greek γάνος (gános, “brightness, sheen”) + -oid

uder

Having a smooth, shining surface, as if polished or enameled: specifically applied to those scales or plates of fishes which are generally of an angular form and composed of a bony or hard horny tissue overlaid with enamel.

In a few minutes the huge beast had been cut up and slabs of him were hanging over a dozen camp fires, together with great scaly ganoid fish which had been speared in the lake.

1912, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Lost World […], London; New York, N.Y.: Hodder and Stoughton, →OCLC:

Having ganoid scales or plates, as a fish; specifically, of or pertaining to the Ganoidei.


ganoid

(zoology) One of the Ganoidei, a disused taxonomic grouping of fishes, including the bowfin, gars, and sturgeons.


hogchoker

Said to be from hog + choker, because the scaly fish could get stuck in the throats of pigs when fed to them.

Trinectes maculatus, a small flatfish found along the coast of parts of North America.


forktail

(Hong Kong) Any fish of the species Ariomma indica.


ctenoidean

(archaic) Any member of the former group Ctenoidei; a ray-finned fish.


ridgehead

Any of the family Melamphaidae of small, deep-sea stephanoberyciform fish.


haberdine

en-noun

haberdine (countable and uncountable, plural haberdines)

From Dutch abberdaan, labberdaan, or a French [Term?] form. Compare Old French habordeau, from the name of a Basque district, and French Labourd, adjective Labourdin. The letter l was misunderstood as the French article l’.

Yet can I set my Gallio's dieting,
A pestle of a lark, or plover's wing;
And warn him not to cast his wanton eyne
On grosser bacon, or salt haberdine


wreckfish

wreckfish (plural wreckfishes or wreckfish)

From wreck + fish, since it often comes in with wreckage.

Any of the perciform marine fish of the family Polyprionidae, often inhabiting caves and shipwrecks.


black bass

black bass (plural black basses or black bass)

black basses (plural)
black bass (plural)

Micropterus salmoides
Micropterus salmoides#Translingual

Any fish of the genus Micropterus, such as the smallmouth bass (Micropterus dolomieu) or the largemouth bass (Micropterus salmoides).


sea gudgeon

The Sea-Gudgeon is a slender roundish Fish, about six Inches long, and sometimes more.

1766, Richard Brookes, The art of angling, rock and sea-fishing:

(obsolete) European black goby (Gobius niger).


marsipobranch

One of the Marsipobranchia, a former classification roughly equivalent to the cyclostomes.


gilthead

Sparus aurata
Sparus aurata#Translingual

A marine fish, Sparus aurata (gilt-head bream), with a golden-coloured head; the giltpoll.

Symphodus melops, a coastal fish; the golden maid, conner, or sea partridge.


dalatiid

(zoology) Any member of the shark family Dalatiidae.


cobblerfish

cobblerfish (plural cobblerfish or cobblerfishes)

cobblerfish (plural)
cobblerfishes (plural)

Common pompano, carolina pompano, cobblerfish, butterfish.

1958, C. Richard Robins, Check List of the Florida Game and Commercial Marine Fishes, Including Those of the Gulf of Mexico and the West Indies, with Approved Common Names:

Florida Pompano--Trachinotus carolinus. Other names: pompano, cobblerfish, palometa

2008, David A. McKee, Fishes of the Texas Laguna Madre: A Guide for Anglers and Naturalists:

Also known as cobblerfish, the Carolina or Florida pompano is so similar in body construction to the permit that an ichthyologist may be needed to distinguish 2- or 3- pounds specimens of these species.

2016, Nick Karas, Sight Fishing the Flats and Beyond:


cycloganoid

(zoology) Any of the obsolete taxon Cycloganoidei, a group of fishes which included the bowfin.


tittlebat

“Speculations on the Source of the Hampstead Ponds, with Some Observations on the Theory of Tittlebats;”.

1836 March – 1837 October, Charles Dickens, “Chapter 1”, in The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club, London: Chapman and Hall, […], published 1837, →OCLC, page 1:

(UK, dialect, archaic) The three-spined stickleback.


whipparee

(dated) Any of various stingrays of the coastal United States, including the cownose ray.


cownose ray

Rhinoptera bonasus, an eagle ray found throughout a large part of the western Atlantic and Caribbean.


popeye

popeye (countable and uncountable, plural popeyes)

Coryphaenoides cinereus (syn. Macrurus cinereus), a deep sea fish.


myxinoid

en-adj

myxinoid (comparative more myxinoid, superlative most myxinoid)

more myxinoid (comparative)
most myxinoid (superlative)

(zoology) pertaining to, the hagfish class Myxini.


lafayette

A fish, the goody or spot (Leiostomus xanthurus), of the southern coast of the United States.


dollarfish

en-noun

dollarfish (plural dollarfishes or dollarfish)

dollarfishes (plural)
dollarfish (plural)

An American butterfish (Peprilus triacanthus).


flyfish

(obsolete) Sebastes ensifer (the name given in most sources,Sebastichthys rhodochloris, seems to be a synonym for this), a brightly-coloured scorpaenoid fish of California.


chlamydoselachid

(zoology) Any shark in the family Chlamydoselachidae of frilled sharks, which comprises two extant species in genus Chlamydoselachus and several extinct species in the genera Chlamydoselachus and †Proteothrinax.


hexanchid

clipping

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

Hexanchid sharks (Family Hexanchidae) are extremely rare in Lower Cretaceous deposits and are known only from isolated teeth.

1995, P.J.Smart, Hexanchid shark teeth (Chondrichthyes, Vertebrata) from the Lower Cretaceous Albian sediments of Leighton Buzzard, South-central England:

(zoology) Any member of the family Hexanchidae, of cow sharks.


heterodontid

(zoology) Any member of the family Heterodontidae of bullhead sharks.


frilled shark

Referring to the frilled appearance of the gill slits.

Any member of two extant species of shark in genus Chlamydoselachus or their extinct close relatives,

Chlamydoselachus anguineus, of wide distribution in mostly in outer continental shelves

franjehaai

member of the Chlamydoselachus anguineus

Chlamydoselachus africana (Southern African frilled shark)


zoarcid

(zoology) Any fish of the family Zoarcidae; an eelpout.


thornback

From Middle English thornbak; equivalent to thorn + back.

Any animal with a thorny back, especially marine animals, such as:

The thornback skate (Dentiraja lemprieri), a fish endemic to Australia.


banstickle

From Middle English banstikel from Old English bān (“bone”) + sticel (“prickle, sting”). See bone (noun) and stickleback.

three-spined stickleback
three-spined stickleback

Gasterosteus aculeatus
Gasterosteus aculeatus#Translingual

(now US, dialectal) three-spined stickleback (Gasterosteus aculeatus).


bouri

A mullet (Liza ramada, syn. Mugil capito) found in the rivers of southern Europe and in Africa.


rockling

Australian rockling

Genypterus blacodes from the family Ophidiidae

fourbeard rockling

Enchelyopus cimbrius from the family Lotidae

shore rockling

Gaidropsarus mediterraneus from the family Gadidae

three-bearded rockling

Gaidropsarus vulgaris from the family Lotidae

Any of various fishes of the Lotidae family.


rupchanda

Borrowed from Bengali রূপচাঁদা (rupcãda).

Rupchanda were darker than the folia chanda among the two groups. Control group rupchanda had stronger rancid odour than the folia chanda of the same group.

1983, D. James, The production and storage of dried fish:

Among the varieties of fish caught are the marine rupchanda, or pomfret, and the freshwater hilsa, a relative of the shad.

There are plenty of fish dishes − koi, hilsa, rupchanda and ayer all get a mention − but the menu has its chaotic moments and plenty of crossing out.

2008, Charles Campion, London Restaurant Guide 2009, page 196:

(South Asia, cooking) A Chinese silver pomfret, Pampus chinensis.


mugiloid

(archaic) A fish of the genus Mugil or family Mugilidae — the mullets


European seabass

en-noun

European seabass (plural European seabass)

Dicentrarchus labrax
Dicentrarchus labrax#Translingual

A highly appreciated marine food fish found in the coastal waters of eastern Atlantic from Cape Verde to southern Norway and in the Mediterranean, (Dicentrarchus labrax).


elopid

(zoology) A member of the family Elopidae of ray-finned fishes, the ladyfish or tenpounders.


balistoid

(zoology) Any fish of the genus Balistes


nursehound

Scyliorhinus stellaris
Scyliorhinus stellaris#Translingual

Scyliorhinus stellaris, a species of catshark.


anadrom

(zoology) Any anadromous fish, a fish that lives in the sea and goes up rivers to breed in fresh water.

anádromo

fish that leaves the sea and ascends rivers


lookdown

An oddly-shaped Atlantic marine fish, Selene vomer.


cottoid

en-adj

cottoid (comparative more cottoid, superlative most cottoid)

more cottoid (comparative)
most cottoid (superlative)

(zoology) Of or pertaining to fish of the genus Cottus.


cottoid

(zoology) A fish belonging to the genus Cottus.


stingfish

en-noun

stingfish (plural stingfishes or stingfish)


tullibee

Perhaps from Cree *otonabi (“water mouth”) or Ojibwe odoonibii (“water mouth”).

A whitefish (Coregonus artedi tullibee, formerly Coregonus tullibee) found in the Great Lakes of North America.


swordick

(Orkney) The spotted gunnel (Muraenoides gunnellus).


gummy shark

2005, Marine Resources Service (United Nations), Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, Review of the State of World Marine Fishery Resources, page 123,
Quotas also apply to school and gummy shark bycatch in the South East Trawl and Great Australian Bight Trawl fisheries.

2006, Steve Cooper, Fishing Techniques: Salt and Fresh Water, Australian Fishing Network, page 100,
Best time for gummy sharks is on moonlit nights when they will move into knee-deep water on a rising tide to feed.

Many gummy sharks are caught off the surf beaches every season. Night time is best and big baits are needed to combat lice and other menaces like crabs.

2008, Rex Hunt, Fishing Guide to Melbourne and Surrounds, page 77:

(Australia) A species of shark, Mustelus antarcticus, endemic to southern and south-eastern Australia, the meat of which is sold as flake.


blacktail

[…] the blacke taile Perch [which ſome take for a Ruffe, others for a ſea Breame:]

1601, Pliny the Elder, translated by Philemon Holland, The Historie of the World, London: A. Islip, published 1634, page 452:

Melarunus, the Black-tail, a kind of Perch of Ruff, a Fiſh; it alſo taken for a Sea-bream: […]

1706, Edward Phillips, compiler, J[ohn] K[ersey the younger], “Melarunus”, in The New World of Words: Or, Universal English Dictionary. […], 6th edition, London: […] J. Phillips, […]; N. Rhodes, […]; and J. Taylor, […], →OCLC:

A perch-like fish of European waters, the blacktail, striped or stone perch, is also known as a ruff or ruffe.

1912, Harry Thurston Peck, The Standard Illustrated Book of Facts, New York, N.Y.: Syndicate Publishing Company, page 764:

Gymnocephalus cernua
Gymnocephalus cernua#Translingual

A fish: the ruffe or pope (Gymnocephalus cernua)

Certain fish with black tails:
(UK) Salmo trutta

Certain fish with black tails:
Salmo trutta

(South Africa, Namibia) Diplodus capensis, Diplodus sargus

Certain fish with black tails:
Diplodus capensis, Diplodus sargus

Diplodus sargus
Diplodus sargus#Translingual

Certain fish with black tails:
(Jamaica) Haemulon carbonarium

Certain fish with black tails:
Haemulon carbonarium


dollardee

(US, dated, dialect) Lepomis pallidus, the blue sunfish or copper-nosed bream.


binny

Unknown. The species name was spelled binny by one early taxonomist.

Niger barb (Labeobarbus bynni or Barbus bynni), a species of yellowfish found in the Nile.


liza

The white mullet (Mugil curema), of the subtropical Americas.


grindle

(US, dated, dialectal) A fish, (bowfin, Amia calva).


pigfoot

The pigfoot is commonly thought of as "soul" food, the assumption being that it and hog jowls and the like were something Southern blacks developed a taste for out of necessity, on account of whites saving all the good parts of the pig for themselves.

2003, Francis Davis, The History of the Blues:

A marine fish (Scorpaena porcus), native to Europe.


threadfish

threadfish (plural threadfishes or threadfish)

threadfishes (plural)
threadfish (plural)

Any of the genus Alectis of fish, noted for their filamentous anal and dorsal fins.


greenbone

From green + bone, because the bones are green when boiled.

(New Zealand) A common food fish, Odax pullus.


solenette

A small European sole (Buglossidium luteum).


swelltoad

Any of the genus Cyclichthys of blowfishes.


gorebill

From Middle English gore, gare (“spear”) + bill. More at gar.


sea partridge

A gilthead or corkwing wrasse (Symphodus melops), a fish of the British coasts.


hairtail

Any of a number of species of marine fishes of the family Trichiuridae, long, band-like, with a slender, pointed tail.


crampfish

A type of electric ray
Atlantic torpedo (Torpedo nobiliana)

A type of electric ray
common torpedo (Torpedo torpedo)


balloonfish

balloonfish (plural balloonfishes or balloonfish)

balloonfishes (plural)
balloonfish (plural)


cestraciont

Ancient Greek κέστρα (késtra, “hammer; a kind of fish”) + κίων (kíōn, “pillar; uvula; nasal septum”).

uder

(zoology, archaic) Any shark historically placed in the genus Cestracion, now in Heterodontus (bullheads, and the horn shark and Port Jackson shark), Sphyrna (certain hammerheads), and Eusphyrna (winghead shark).


orange roughy

Other deep creatures now being harvested or targeted as seafood include rattails, skates, squid, red crabs, orange roughy, black oreos, smooth oreos, hoki, blue ling, southern blue whiting, sablefish, black scabbard fish and spiny dogfish.

1995 December 26, William J. Broad, “Creatures of the Deep Find Their Way to the Table”, in The New York Times:

An edible deep-sea fish (Hoplostethus atlanticus), of the slimehead family (Trachichthyidae).


slimehead

Any of the long-lived deep-sea fish forming the family Trachichthyidae.


etheostomoid

(archaic) Any of the fish of Etheostoma and related genera.


bolty

A Nile tilapia, an edible fish of the Nile, of species Oreochromis niloticus (formerly Chromis nilotica).


amberfish

en-noun

amberfish (plural amberfishes or amberfish)


sciaenid

Sciaenids constitute about 70,000 tonnes of the present demersal catch of the west coast. George, et al. estimated an additional potential of about 90,000 tonnes of sciaenids from the west coast.

1985, K. M. Joseph, “3: Marine Fishery Resources of India”, in G. R. Kulkarni, Uma K. Srivastava, editors, A Systems Framework of the Marine Foods Industry in India, page 112:

In the Indo-West Pacific, sciaenids are important in the equatorial regions of South East Asia but much less so elsewhere.

1997, S. J. Blaber, Fish and Fisheries in Tropical Estuaries, page 107:

It can often be difficult to distinguish an individual's call when a hydrophone is lowered into a chorus of sciaenids.
Like damselfishes, sciaenids tend to have species-specific sounds (Fig. 9.8).

2008, David A. Mann, Anthony D. Hawkins, J. Michael Jech, “9: Active and Passive Acoustics to Locate and Study Fish”, in Jacqueline F. Webb, Arthur N. Popper, Richard R. Fay, editors, Fish Bioacoustics, page 298:

(zoology) Any fish belonging to the family Sciaenidae.


carangid

The total catch in 1976 was probably about 3.5 million tons and was mainly composed of pelagic species such as sardines, mackerels and various carangids.

1983, T.J. Pitcher, P. Hart, Fisheries Ecology, page 56:

Carangids occur in a variety of habitats: coral and rocky reefs, in the surf along sandy beaches, and in estuaries.[…]Most carangids are swift predators, and the larger species are prized as sport fish and for their excellent eating qualities.

2004, Phillip C. Heemstra, Coastal Fishes of Southern Africa, page 299:

Carangids may use DMSP as a cue to locate productive areas for foraging. Carangids generally feed on smaller fish, shrimps, and other invertebrates (Böhlke and Chaplin 1993).

2008, Jennifer Leigh DeBose, Investigating the Role of Dimethylsulfoniopropionate (DMSP) as an Aggregation Cue for Coral Reef and Reef-associated Fishes, page 64:

(zoology) Any fish belonging to the family Carangidae, the jackfish.


drumfish

drumfish (plural drumfishes or drumfish)

Any fish of the family Sciaenidae; they make a loud noise by means of an air bladder.


goosefish

goosefish (plural goosefishes or goosefish)


roughhead

A fish, the common shiner, Luxilus cornutus.


sea devil

Lophius piscatorius
Lophius piscatorius#Translingual

An angler fish of species Lophius piscatorius


witfish

(obsolete) Alternative form of whitefish.


embiotocoid

en-adj

embiotocoid (comparative more embiotocoid, superlative most embiotocoid)

more embiotocoid (comparative)
most embiotocoid (superlative)

(ichthyology) Belonging to the fish family Embiotocidae.


fausen

The wave-sprung entrails, about which fausens and other fish
Did shoal,

[1611?], Homer, “Book XXI”, in Geo[rge] Chapman, transl., The Iliads of Homer Prince of Poets. […], London: […] Nathaniell Butter, →OCLC; republished as The Iliads of Homer, Prince of Poets, […], new edition, volume I, London: Charles Knight and Co., […], 1843, →OCLC:


petromyzont

(zoology) Any of the family Petromyzontidae of northern lampreys.


gymnodont

(zoology, obsolete) One of a former family of plectognath fishes (Gymnodontes), having the teeth and jaws consolidated into one or two bony plates on each jaw.


suckstone

[H]is Admirall-gally was in her course staied by that little fish, the Latines call Remora, and the English a Sucke-stone, whose property is, to stay any ship he can fasten himselfe unto.

1603, Michel de Montaigne, chapter 12, in John Florio, transl., The Essayes […], book II, London: […] Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], →OCLC:


skimback

(US) A fish, the quillback (Carpioides cyprinus).


sciaenoid

Latin sciaena (“a kind of sea fish, perhaps a kind of grayling or ombre: Thymallus thymallus”), from Ancient Greek σκίαινα (skíaina, “a sea fish, probably either Sciaena umbra or Umbrina cirrosa”), + -oid.

uder

(zoology) Of or relating to the Sciaenidae, a family of marine fishes.


sciaenoid

(zoology) Any of the Sciaenidae, a family of marine fishes.


sharpling

From sharp + -ling. Compare German Schärfling (“stickleback”).


tibrie

(UK, dialect, dated) A fish, the pollock.


pacu

From Portuguese pacu, from Old Tupi paku.

Any of several South American freshwater fishes related to the piranha.

paku

any of several species of South American fishes

red-bellied pacu

Piaractus brachypomus or Colossoma macropomum


goldfinny

One of two or more species of European labroid fishes, Symphodus melops and Ctenolabrus rupestris.


chubsucker

Any of various freshwater suckers of the genus Erimyzon, native to North America.


medregal

A bonito or greater amberjack (Seriola fasciata).


merhorse

[…] super-otter, merhorse (a kind of sea horse), marine saurian and father-of-all-the-turtles.

1988, DeWitt Wallace, Lila Bell Acheson Wallace, The Reader's digest:

But there seems enough evidence to suggest that the merhorse may possibly be a distinct and genuine species. The creature is described as […] but there was no reappearance. A local expert was of the opinion that it was a 'real sea-horse'.

1998, Nigel Suckling, Bob Eggleton, The book of sea monsters:


greenfish

en-noun

greenfish (plural greenfishes or greenfish)

Pomatomus saltatrix
Pomatomus saltatrix#Translingual

Certain of the fish called bluefish
especially, Pomatomus saltatrix

Pollachius pollachius
Pollachius pollachius#Translingual

Pollock (Pollachius spp., esp. Pollachius pollachius).


horsefish

horsefish (plural horsefishes or horsefish)

Any of several species of fish in the family Congiopodidae.


mishcup

From the same Narragansett name for the fish (mishcùp) as scuppaug, scup and paugie.

(US, dialect, obsolete) A fish: the scup or porgy.


nerfling

Leuciscus idus
Leuciscus idus#Translingual

(dated) A small freshwater cyprinoid fish (Leuciscus idus, syn. Idus idus).


merluce

From French merluche, merlus. Compare Spanish merluza.


nowd

A grey gurnard (Trigla gurnardus, now Eutrigla gurnadus), a fish of European waters.


long-nose

I liked the long-nose better. The English are funny about the long-nose; or orfi, as we call it. They say it is poison because it got green bones.

1974, GB Edwards, The Book of Ebenezer Le Page, New York, published 2007, page 15:


cackerel

From Old French caquerel, cagarel, from the root of English cack.

The mendole, Spicara maena; a small Mediterranean fish considered poisonous in ancient times.


tiburon

Borrowed from Middle French tiburon, from Spanish tiburón, of uncertain origin.

Other unlucky accidents happen in these seas to vexe them, as when (in most becalmings) they swim in the bearing Ocean, the greedy Tuberon or Shark arm'd with a double row of venemous teeth pursues them [...].

1638, Thomas Herbert, Some Yeares Travels, section I:

Sphyrna tiburo
Sphyrna tiburo#Translingual

Negaprion brevirostris
Negaprion brevirostris#Translingual

A shark; now specifically, Sphyrna tiburo or Negaprion brevirostris.


Suleah fish

(dated) The Indian threadfin (Leptomelanosoma indicum). .


allmouth

Any of the order Lophiiformes of anglerfish, such as Lophius piscatorius.


rotchet

A fish, the European red gurnard (Chelidonichthys cuculus).


squeteague

Then there came a reg'lar terror of a sou'wester same as you don't get one summer in a thousand, and blowed the shanty flat and ripped about half of the weir poles out of the sand. We spent consider'ble money getting 'em reset, and then a swordfish got into the pound and tore the nets all to slathers, right in the middle of the squiteague season.

1913, Joseph C[rosby] Lincoln, chapter I, in Mr. Pratt’s Patients, New York, N.Y., London: D[aniel] Appleton and Company, →OCLC:

The Injuns get to Naturmitgefuhl by the metaphor of a family: if you don't throw the roe-plump squeteague back, that is a sort of nepoticide.

2001, Adrian Trehorse, The Last Angry White Man, Lincoln, Neb.: Writers Club Press, →ISBN, page 154:

A weakfish, a silvery edible American sciaenoid fish of species Cynoscion regalis.


schelly

(Scotland) A fish, the powan (Coregonus clupeoides).


grundel

From Middle English grundel, grundyl, perhaps from Old English gryndle (“herring”). Compare also Middle Dutch grondele, grondel, Middle Low German grundele, grundel (“groundling”). See groundling.

(UK, dialect, archaic) A kind of fish, the groundling.


beshow

From Makah bishowk, cognate to Nootka mišawiḥ.

A large food fish (Anoplopoma fimbria) of the north Pacific coast; the candlefish or sablefish.


foxfish

An Australian fish, Bodianus frenchii, and related species.


forkbeard

A European fish (Raniceps raninus), having a large flat head.


tubfish

(UK, dialect) The sapphirine gurnard (Chelidonichthys lucerna).


becuna

Sphyraena sphyraena, a Mediterranean fish.


scuppaug

From the Narragansett term mishcùppaûog, actually a plural, the singular being mishcùp(p), whence mishcup. Compare scup, paugie.


flathe

From Middle English flathe (“flat fish”), from Old English *flaþa ("flatcake"; found only in compound flæþecomb, fleþecomb (“weaver's comb”)), from Proto-West Germanic *flaþō (“flatcake”), from Proto-Indo-European *pleth₂- (“broad, flat”). Cognate with Dutch vla, vlade (“baked custard, pancake”), Middle Low German vlade (“flatcake”), German Fladen (“a flatcake, cowpatty”). Related to flan.


pipemouth

(rare) Any fish of the genus Fistularia; the tobacco pipefish (Fistularia tabacaria).


pirarucu

Etymology tree
Proto-Tupi-Guarani *pira
Old Tupi pirá
Proto-Tupian *ɨrʲuku
Proto-Tupi-Guarani *uruku
Old Tupi uruku
Old Tupi pirauruku
Nheengatu pirarukúbor.
Brazilian Portuguese pirarucubor.
English pirarucu
Borrowed from Brazilian Portuguese pirarucu.


silverfin

(zoology) A small North American freshwater cyprinoid fish (Notropis whipplei, now Cyprinella whipplei).


pondfish

en-noun

pondfish (plural pondfishes or pondfish)

Any of numerous species of American freshwater fishes belonging to the family Centrarchidae.


rainbowfish

rainbowfish (plural rainbowfishes or rainbowfish)

rainbowfishes (plural)
rainbowfish (plural)

Any of the small colourful freshwater fish in the family Melanotaeniidae, native to northern and eastern Australia, New Guinea and Indonesia.


fishling

[…] said an older woman, bending over her, "hush, little fishling! Ichuk, my son, is dead, but we will get thee another man."

My fingers moved subtly, and now Fiacha was a tiny raven no bigger than a bee, a little speck of darkness that spun out of the fixing charm as easily as a fishling escapes the herring net, […]

2008, Juliet Marillier, Child of the Prophecy:


thimbleeye

July 25, 1887, the schooner Peter Cooper caught 6000 thimbleeye mackerel off Manasquan N. J.

1904, Tarleton H. Bean, “Fishes of New York”, in New York State Museum 56th Annual Report, volume 2, page 383:

A schooling fish of temperate waters, chub mackerel or thimbleeye migrates in much greater numbers to New Jersey than into New York waters .

1978, John Laurence McHugh, Jay J. C. Ginter, Fisheries, page 68:

An Atlantic chub mackerel (Scomber colias).


chimaeroid

(zoology) Any fish of the suborder Chimaeroidei


carangoid

(zoology) Any fish of the family Carangidae.


pleuronectoid

en-adj

pleuronectoid (comparative more pleuronectoid, superlative most pleuronectoid)

more pleuronectoid (comparative)
most pleuronectoid (superlative)

Relating to the Pleuronectidae, or flounder family.


chondropterygian

(zoology, obsolete) Any member of the obsolete taxon Chondropterygii, which included both the cartilaginous fish (Chondrichthyes) such as sharks, rays, skates and chimaeras, and the more primitive bony fishes such as sturgeons that have some bones made of cartilage.


tarpum

A large marine fish (Atlantic tarpon), of species Megalops atlanticus, of the southern United States and the West Indies, with large silvery scales.


batrachoid

batrachoid (comparative more batrachoid, superlative most batrachoid)

more batrachoid (comparative)
most batrachoid (superlative)

Batrachoides + -oid (with haplology). Compare batrachian.

Batrachoid

of or pertaining to the family Batrachoididae

It applies, indeed, solely in its present state to the capillaries of the saurial and batrachoid reptiles; but there is every reason to believe, that the same arrangement takes place in the mammated class of animals.

1832, Marshall Hall, Art. II: A Critical and Experimental Essay on the Circulation of Blood: The Edinburgh Medical and Surgical Journal, page 167:

An idea, not undeserving attention, has been announced on this subject by M. Reynaud, who, observing that a similar anatomical arrangement is found in the batrachoid amphibia, or frog family during the whole period of existence, infers, though not very confidently, that it may be applied to explain the arrangement of the vascular system now under consideration, by referring it to the earliest periods of intra-uterine life in the Mammalia.

1841, David Craigie, Art. XII: Instance of Obliteration of the Aorta beyond the Arch: The Edinburgh Medical and Surgical Journal, page 461:

It gave, therefore, additional evidence of the existence of air-breathing vertebrata at the period of the deposition of the coal-strata, and extended the known geographical range of the batrachoid reptiles of the carboniferous epoch.

1853, The Literary Gazette, London, page 114:


shad-waiter

(US, dialect) A lake whitefish; the roundfish (Prosopium cylindraceum).


wingfish

en-noun

wingfish (plural wingfishes or wingfish)

A sea robin with large, wing-like pectoral fins.


garrupa

Possibly from Portuguese garupa (“crupper”) or Portuguese garoupa (“grouper”). Compare grouper.

One of several species of California market fishes, of the genus Sebastes; a rockfish.


chogset

Shortening of cachogset, from an Algonquian language; probably Mohegan-Pequot cachauxet (“cunner”).


morgay

From Welsh morgi (“dogfish, shark”), from mor (“sea”) + ci (“dog”).

small-spotted catshark
small-spotted catshark

Scyliorhinus canicula
Scyliorhinus canicula#Translingual

The European small-spotted catshark Scyliorhinus canicula


sawbelly

Every few minutes an eagle would reach daintily into the water and pluck a dead sawbelly from the half-frozen soup. Sawbellies, or alewives, are fish that do not grow that big. A full day of dipping one’s naked talons into frigid slush might yield a decent mealful.

1990 January 2, Rick Marsi, “The Russian bear can’t beat the Tier’s gray fox”, in Press & Sun-Bulletin, Binghamton, N.Y., →ISSN, page 1D, column 4:


margate fish

A white margate, an edible fish of the west Atlantic.


pickle-herring

The first who made the experiment was a merry-andrew, who was put into my hands by a neighbouring justice of peace, in order to reclaim him from that profligate kind of life. Poor Pickle-herring had not taken above one turn in it, when he came out of the cave, like a hermit from his cell, with a penitential look and a most rueful countenance.

1714 September 25 (Gregorian calendar), [Joseph Addison], “TUESDAY, September 14, 1714”, in The Spectator, number 599; republished in Alexander Chalmers, editor, The Spectator; a New Edition, […], volume VI, New York, N.Y.: D[aniel] Appleton & Company, 1853, →OCLC:


sillock

From sill (“newly hatched young of fish, fry”) + -ock, ultimately from Old Norse síl, síld (“herring”), whence also dialectal Swedish sil (“the young of fish, fry”) and Norwegian sil (“sand-eel”). More at sile.

suffix

(Scotland) A pollock or a coalfish, sometimes especially a young coalfish.


polewig

(UK, dialect, obsolete) sand goby (Pomatoschistus minutus).


clupeoid

en-adj

clupeoid (comparative more clupeoid, superlative most clupeoid)

more clupeoid (comparative)
most clupeoid (superlative)

(zoology) Of or relating to fish closely related taxonomically to herring.


clupeoid

(zoology) Any of a group of fish closely related taxonomically to herring.


coryphene

From Ancient Greek κορυφή (koruphḗ, “head, summit, peak”).

uder

(archaic, zoology) A fish of the genus Coryphaena.


singing fish

en-noun

singing fish (plural singing fishes or singing fish)

singing fishes (plural)
singing fish (plural)

A California toadfish (Porichthys porosissimus), noted for the humming sound it produces during the breeding season.


burgall

Tautogolabrus adspersus
Tautogolabrus adspersus#Translingual


studfish

studfish (plural studfishes or studfish)

Any of several species of small American minnows of the genus Fundulus, such as Fundulus catenatus.


zaprorid

(zoology) Any of the family Zaproridae of prowfish.


zanclid

(zoology) Any of the fish family Zanclidae.


luvarid

(ichthyology) Any fish in the family Luvaridae.


louvar

From Sicilian lùvaru (“common pandora”).

Luvarus imperialis, a large ellipsoidal perciform fish related to the surgeonfish.


petromyzontid

(zoology) Any jawless fish in the family Petromyzontidae.


rochet

From Middle English roget, from Middle French rouget.


longneck eel

A type of pelagic fish found in the middle and depths of most oceans, of the family Derichthyidae.


footballfish

Any of the species of deep-sea anglerfishes in the family Himantolophidae.


deepwater cardinalfish

deepwater cardinalfish (plural deepwater cardinalfishes)

Any of the small perciform fishes in the family Epigonidae


cardinalfish

cardinalfish (plural cardinalfishes or cardinalfish)

cardinalfishes (plural)
cardinalfish (plural)

Any of the family Apogonidae of mostly marine ray-finned fishes.


shore cod

Any cod-like fish caught close to shore, but especially the Atlantic cod.


Atlantic cod

Atlantic cod (usually uncountable, plural Atlantic cod or Atlantic cods)

Atlantic cod (plural)
Atlantic cods (plural)

Originally known as cod. The Atlantic was added later to distinguish this species from the related but distinct Pacific cod.


striped bass

striped bass (countable and uncountable, plural striped bass)

A popular fish among sport fisherman along Atlantic coast north of Virginia to Canada, Morone saxatilis.


salmon trout

salmon trout (plural salmon trout or salmon trouts)

salmon trout (plural)
salmon trouts (plural)

Salmo gairdneri
Salmo gairdneri#Translingual


Biwa trout

Oncorhynchus rhodurus, an anadromous salmonid fish.


alburn

Borrowed from Late Latin alburnus. Cognate with alburnum and auburn.

In the total yield of cyprinids, the dominating fish is alburn, […] a small delicate fish which in dense shoals inhabits the pelagial waters of the lake.

1960, Monographiae biologicae: Volume 9:

It took patience to catch alburns, those hand-sized fish in the Stolpe.

1998, George Grosz, George Grosz: An Autobiography, page 7:

The bleak, a small European fish with silvery scales.


merling

From Middle English merlynge, from Old French merlenc, from Latin merula.

1995, Maryanne Kowaleski, footnote, Local Markets and Regional Trade in Medieval Exeter, page 310,
The types were cod, conger eel, common eel, dried fish (most probably cod and hake), hake, herring, lamprey, ling, mackerel, merling (whiting), mulwell, pike, pilchard, pollack, porpoise, ray, salmon, stockfish (probably cod), sturgeon, and whiting; they arrived fresh, dried, salted, or smoked.

Merlangius merlangus
Merlangius merlangus#Translingual

The fish Merlangius merlangus, endemic to the North Atlantic, Mediterranean Sea, western Baltic Sea and Black Sea.

English whiting

Merlangius merlangus): whiting (UK; in countries outside the range of Merlangius merlangus


labrid

(zoology) Any of the family Labridae of marine fishes.


odacid

(ichthyology) Any of the family Odacidae of perciform fishes


scarid

(ichthyology) Any of the family Scaridae; parrotfishes.


aplodactylid

(zoology) Any marblefish in the family Aplodactylidae.


marblefish

marblefish (plural marblefishes or marblefish)

marblefishes (plural)
marblefish (plural)

Any of the family Aplodactylidae of perciform fishes.

kehe

a member of the Aplodactylidae of fishes


beaked salmon

Any of several species of long, thin ray-finned fish in genus Gonorynchus (family Gonorynchidae) that live on sandy bottoms near shorelines.


atherine

From Ancient Greek ἀθερῑ́νη (atherī́nē, “a kind of smelt”).

uder

A small marine fish of the family Atherinidae having a silvery stripe along the sides.


chevin

From Old French chevesne (“chub”), perhaps from chef (“head”). Compare chavender.


poor-john

Poor-john and apple pies are all our fare.

1653, John Harington, A Briefe View of the State of the Church:

A small European fish, of inferior quality to the cod.


Marysole

(UK, archaic) A large British fluke, or flounder (Lepidorhombus whiffiagonis)


triple-tail

Alternative form of tripletail (Lobotes spp.)


craig flounder

A fish of the North Atlantic, pole flounder, Glyptocephalus cynoglossus.


Zuni bluehead sucker

en-noun

Zuni bluehead sucker (plural Zuni bluehead suckers)

Catostomus discobolus jarrovii, a North American fish with a slender fusiform body and subterminal mouth.


bluehead

The blunt-headed wrasse or blue-headed wrasse, a fish of the species Thalassoma amblycephalum or Thalassoma bifasciatum.


warsaw

Probably a corruption of Spanish guasa or mero guasa (“Atlantic goliath grouper”), which may be from Tupinambá guaçu (“large”).

Shallow-water grouper include red Epinephelus morio; […] warsaw Epinephelus nigritus; speckled hind Epinephelus hammondhayi; and scamp (after the shallow-water quota is filled).

2001, Linda E. Lucas, “Fishery Management and Local Communities: The Case of Madeira Beach, Florida”, in Marine Fisheries Review, volume 63, number 4, page 35:

The Warsaw grouper (Epinephelus nigritus) was listed as a species of concern in 1997. It is a very large fish found on deepwater reefs of the southeastern United States.

2009, Calhoun Country Navigation District’s Proposed Matagorda Ship Channel Improvement Project: Environmental Impact Statement, section 3, page 108:

The young warsaw has a yellow tail and a dark saddle on the caudal peduncle. The warsaw is distinctive as the only grouper with 10 dorsal spines, the second of which is much longer than the third.

2011, Ken Schultz, Ken Schultz’s Field Guide to Saltwater Fish, page 145:

Any of several species of grouper, subfamily Epinephelinae

A fish, the black grouper (Epinephelus nigritus).


gonorynchiform

The milkfish is a gonorynchiform.

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


whiting-mop

...his silence must be, that though he beare and understand himselfe wronged, yet he must be as dumbe as a Gudgeon or a Whiting mop: and though his mouth be shut...

1869 [1620], John Taylor, Works of John Taylor the Water-Poet, The Spenser Society, "Taylors Travels to Prague in Bohemia", page 99:

Chartley. Fear not, girl. Though I revel abroad o' days, I'll be with thee to bring o' nights, my little whiting mop.

1996 [1638], Thomas Heywood, edited by Paul Merchant, Three Marriage Plays, Manchester University Press, The Wise Woman of Hogsdon, act I, scene II, page 48:

Bustopha. [Reading.] The thund'ring seas whose wat'ry fire
Washes the whiting-mops,
The gentle whale, whose feet so fell
Flies o'er the mountains' tops—

1813 [1647], John Fletcher, The Works of Beaumont and Fletcher, volume Thirteen, Edinburgh: John Ballantyne and Co., Doig and Stirling, w:The Maid in the Mill, act II, scene I, page 199:


cultus cod

From Chinook Jargon cultus (“worthless, of little worth”), probably from a Chinook word kaltas/kə́ltas ("only", "in vain").

bor

Synonym of lingcod (Ophiodon elongatus).


chinook salmon

en-noun

chinook salmon (usually uncountable, plural chinook salmon or chinook salmons)

chinook salmon (plural)
chinook salmons (plural)

Oncorhynchus tshawytscha
Oncorhynchus tshawytscha#Translingual

Oncorhynchus tshawytscha, the largest species in the Pacific salmon group.


gedd

Alternative spelling of ged (“The European pike”)


paugie

Shortened form of the Narragansett word mishcùppaûog ("porgies", plural). Another shortening of the same word yields the synonym scup. The full word was borrowed as scuppaug. The singular was borrowed as mishcup.
Possibly reinforced by its similarity to porgy, especially in non-rhotic accents.


sea-purse

Named because it is shaped like a small purse.

The egg case of skate, shark or ratfish; a mermaid's purse.


pauhagen

Related to poghaden; probably ultimately from Abenaki or Penobscot.


poghaden

Related to pauhagen; probably ultimately from Abenaki or Penobscot.


lyrie

(obsolete) Agonus cataphractus, a European fish having the body covered with bony plates, and with three spines projecting in front of the nose.


Jerusalem haddock

Jerusalem haddock (plural Jerusalem haddocks or Jerusalem haddock)

Jerusalem haddocks (plural)
Jerusalem haddock (plural)


pigfish

Any of several other fishes thought to resemble pigs, including


shrimpfish

shrimpfish (plural shrimpfishes or shrimpfish)

shrimpfishes (plural)
shrimpfish (plural)

Any of the fish in the subfamily Centriscinae that swim with their heads pointed downward.


penk

Now for the Minnow, or Penk: he is not easily found and caught till March, or in April, for then he appears first in the river,[…].

1676, Izaak Walton, Charles Cotton, “The Compleat Angler”, in James Rennie, editor, The Complete Angler; Or, Contemplative Man's Recreation, published 1833, page 98:


kokanee

A lacustrine (that is, land-locked, found in lakes and not in the ocean) sockeye.


blenniid

(ichthyology) Any fish in the family Blenniidae; a combtooth blenny.


combtooth blenny

combtooth blenny (plural combtooth blennies)

Any of the perciform marine fish of the family Blenniidae, with large spiny dorsal fins.


bellowsfish

A fish in the genus Notopogon, resembling a bellows in shape.


methy

From Woods Cree mathay (“burbot”); compare Cree miyay.

The occow, or river perch, termed also horn-fish, piccarel, or doré, is common, but is not so much esteemed as the attihhawmeg. It attains the length of twenty inches in these lakes. The methy is another common fish; it is the gadus lota, or burbot, of Europe.

1824, John Franklin, Narrative of a journey to the shores of the Polar Sea, volume 1, page 144:

In addition to the sturgeon, the fishery occasionally yields the white-fish, pike, various kinds of trout, the methy, and several sucking-carp.

1836, Richard King, Narrative of a journey to the shores of the Arctic Ocean, volume 1, page 53:

Our Loche or Methy is not a fashionable fish, […]

1873, Anual Report of the Department of Marine and Fisheries, for the year ending the 30th June, 1872, page 191:


sand dab

I commanded him. “Stand up.” He looked down, his mouth disobedient and wide and flat and ugly as a sand dab’s, and would not.

2013, Hanya Yanagihara, The People in the Trees, New York: Doubleday, Part 6, p. 336:

Any of various small flatfish of the genus Citharichthys native to the Pacific coast of the Americas.


alfione

(dated) A species of surfperch found in the eastern Pacific California (Rhacochilus toxotes).


mudcat

A flathead catfish (Pylodictis olivaris, syns. Silurus olivaris, Leptops olivaris), flatty or shovelhead cat, of central North America.


pediculate

(obsolete, ichthyology) Of or relating to the Pediculati, an order of fish now classified as Lophiiformes.


coryphaenid

(zoology) Any dolphinfish in the family Coryphaenidae.


cabrilla

Any of various edible fishes of Serranus and related genera, inhabiting the Mediterranean, the coast of California, etc.


glowlight

A fish, the glowlight danio (Danio choprae).


danio

From Bengali ধানি (dhani, “relating to paddy”).

bor

1995, Mary Bailey, The Ultimate Aquarium, Smithmark, page 158,
Danios are very similar to barbs but are much slimmer-bodied.

To me, however, they are more reminiscent of leopard danios than livebearers.

2007, Tropical Fish Hobbyist, volume 56, numbers 1-4, TFH Publications, page 51:

2019, Madelaine Francis Heleine, Freshwater Aquariums For Dummies, Wiley (For Dummies), page 155,
For example, danios need to be fed often because they have high metabolism rates.

(chiefly in combination) Any of various fish of the genera Danio or Devario.


danionin

Any of a group of small minnow-like cyprinid fish


sperling

Osmerus eperlanus
Osmerus eperlanus#Translingual

(Scotland, obsolete) A European smelt (Osmerus eperlanus).


pinfish

From pin + fish, from its sharp dorsal spines.

Lagodon rhomboides, a saltwater sparid fish.


liparid

(zoology) Any fish in the family Liparidae.


snailfish

en-noun

snailfish (plural snailfishes or snailfish)

Any member of the Liparidae, a family of scorpaeniform marine fish.


seasnail

From Middle English *se-snail, from Old English sǣsnæġl (“seasnail”), equivalent to sea + snail. Cognate with Danish søsnegl (“seasnail”), Norwegian sjøsnegl (“seasnail”), Icelandic sjósnigill (“seasnail”).
The fish name likely a clipping of seasnail(fish).

Alternative form of sea snail (“shelled marine gastropod mollusk”)


pholidophorid

(zoology) Any extinct fish in the family Pholidophoridae.


leptolepid

(zoology) Any extinct fish in the family Leptolepidae.


chirocentrid

(zoology) Any fish in the family Chirocentridae; a wolf herring.


palaeoniscid

(zoology) Any extinct fish of the family Palaeoniscidae


lutjanid

Among other families, the lutjanids appear to be gonochoristic throughout life although the population sex ratio as well as the sex ratio at size may frequently be skewed resulting from differential growth and mortality rates among the sexes (Grimes, 1987).

1993, Andrew Wright, “Chapter 8: Shallow Water Reef-associated Finfish”, in Andrew Wright, Lance Hill, editors, Nearshore Marine Resources of the South Pacific, page 225:

Smaller species of lutjanids require fewer resources per individual and can form schools year-round.

1996, M. L. Domeier, C. Koenig, F. Coleman, “Reproductive Biology of the Gray Snapper (Lutjanus griseus), with Notes on Spawning for other Western Atlantic Snappers (Lutjanidae)”, in Francisco Arreguín-Sánchez, J. L. Munro, M. C. Balgos, Daniel Pauly, editors, Biology, Fisheries, and Culture of Tropical Groupers and Snappers, page 199:

The tightly coiled gut, small gas bladder, pigment pattern, early-forming head spination and early-forming spines of the pelvic fin and dorsal fin are useful distinguishing characteristics of the lutjanids.

2000, J. M. Leis, D. S. Rennis, “52: Lutjanidae (Snappers and Fusiliers)”, in Jeffrey Martin Leis, Brooke M. Carson-Ewart, editors, The Larvae of Indo-Pacific Coastal Fishes, page 336:

(zoology) Any member of the family Lutjanidae; a snapper.


opakapaka

opakapaka (plural opakapakas or opakapaka)

Pristipomoides filamentosus, the crimson jobfish.