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Cobitidae, family Cobitidae
loaches
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Cyprinidae, family Cyprinidae
a family of fish including: carp; tench; roach; rudd; dace
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Electrophoridae, family Electrophoridae
small family comprising the electric eels
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Catostomidae, family Catostomidae
suckers; closely related to the family Cyprinidae
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Cyprinodontidae, family Cyprinodontidae
large family of small soft-finned fishes; killifishes; flagfishes; swordtails; guppies
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Poeciliidae, family Poeciliidae
topminnows
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Holocentridae, family Holocentridae
squirrelfishes and soldierfishes
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Anomalopidae, family Anomalopidae
a family of fish including: flashlight fishes
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Zeidae, family Zeidae
a family of fish in the order Zeomorphi
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Caproidae, family Caproidae
boarfishes
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Fistulariidae, family Fistulariidae
cornetfishes
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Gasterosteidae, family Gasterosteidae
sticklebacks
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Syngnathidae, family Syngnathidae
pipefishes
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Macrorhamphosidae, family Macrorhamphosidae
bellows fishes
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Centriscidae, family Centriscidae
shrimpfishes
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Aulostomidae, family Aulostomidae
trumpetfishes
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Petromyzontidae, family Petromyzontidae
lampreys
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Myxinidae, family Myxinidae
slime-producing marine animals: hagfishes
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Chimaeridae, family Chimaeridae
a family of Holocephali
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Hexanchidae, family Hexanchidae
primitive sharks
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Lamnidae, family Lamnidae
oceanic sharks
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Isuridae, family Isuridae
in some classifications another name for the family Lamnidae
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Cetorhinidae, family Cetorhinidae
in some older classifications considered the family of the basking sharks
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Alopiidae, family Alopiidae
thresher sharks
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Orectolobidae, family Orectolobidae
nurse sharks and carpet sharks
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Carchariidae, Odontaspididae, family Carchariidae, family Odontaspididae
sand sharks; in some classifications coextensive with family Carcharhinidae
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Rhincodontidae, family Rhincodontidae
small-toothed sharks comprising only one species
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Scyliorhinidae, family Scyliorhinidae
small bottom-dwelling sharks
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Carcharhinidae, family Carcharhinidae
largest family of living sharks; found worldwide especially in tropical waters; dorsal fin lacks spines: requiem sharks including tiger sharks and soupfin sharks
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Triakidae, family Triakidae
small sharks with smooth skins and lacking spines on their dorsal fins
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Squalidae, family Squalidae
dogfishes having a spine in each dorsal fin
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Sphyrnidae, family Sphyrnidae
hammerhead sharks; bonnethead sharks
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Squatinidae, family Squatinidae
bottom-dwelling ray-like sharks
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Torpedinidae, family Torpedinidae
electric rays
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Pristidae, family Pristidae
large primitive rays with elongated snouts
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Rhinobatidae, family Rhinobatidae
primitive rays with guitar-shaped bodies
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Dasyatidae, family Dasyatidae
sting rays
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Myliobatidae, family Myliobatidae
eagle rays
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Mobulidae, family Mobulidae
large rays lacking venomous spines: mantas
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Rajidae, family Rajidae
bottom-dwelling tropical rays: skates
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Latimeridae, family Latimeridae
extinct except for the coelacanth
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Ceratodontidae, family Ceratodontidae
lungfishes having hornlike ridges on the teeth
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Siluridae, family Siluridae
Old World catfishes
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Ameiuridae, family Ameiuridae
North American catfishes
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Laricariidae, family Laricariidae
armored catfish
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Ariidae, family Ariidae
sea catfishes
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Gadidae, family Gadidae
large family of important mostly marine food fishes
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Macrouridae, Macruridae, family Macrouridae, family Macruridae
grenadiers
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Anguillidae, family Anguillidae
eels that live in fresh water as adults but return to the sea to spawn
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Muraenidae, family Muraenidae
marine eels
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Congridae, family Congridae
marine eels
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Gonorhynchidae, family Gonorhynchidae
coextensive with the genus Gonorhynchus
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Clupeidae, family Clupeidae
herrings; shad; sardines; etc.
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Engraulidae, family Engraulidae
anchovies
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Salmonidae, family Salmonidae
salmon and trout
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Coregonidae, family Coregonidae
soft-finned fishes comprising the freshwater whitefishes; formerly included in the family Salmonidae
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Osmeridae, family Osmeridae
smelts
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Elopidae, family Elopidae
tarpons and ladyfishes
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Albulidae, family Albulidae
bonefish
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Argentinidae, family Argentinidae
small marine soft-finned fishes with long silvery bodies; related to salmons and trouts
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Myctophidae, family Myctophidae
deep-sea fishes comprising the lantern fishes
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Synodontidae, family Synodontidae
soft-finned bottom-dwelling fishes
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Chlorophthalmidae, family Chlorophthalmidae
small family of soft-finned bottom-dwellers with large eyes; relatives of lizardfishes
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Osteoglossidae, family Osteoglossidae
a family of large fishes that live in freshwater; includes bandfish and bonytongues
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Lampridae, family Lampridae
opahs
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Trachipteridae, family Trachipteridae
ribbonfishes
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Regalecidae, family Regalecidae
ribbonfishes
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Ogcocephalidae, family Ogcocephalidae
batfishes: sluggish bottom-dwelling spiny fishes
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Lophiidae, family Lophiidae
large-headed marine fishes comprising the anglers
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Batrachoididae, family Batrachoididae
toadfishes; related to anglers and batfishes
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Antennariidae, family Antennariidae
frogfishes; tropical spiny-finned marine fishes having large nearly vertical mouths; related to toadfishes and anglers
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Belonidae, family Belonidae
ferocious fishes of warm regions resembling but unrelated to the freshwater gars
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Exocoetidae, family Exocoetidae
flying fishes; closely related to the halfbeaks
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Hemiramphidae, family Hemiramphidae
halfbeaks; marine and freshwater fishes closely related to the flying fishes but not able to glide
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Scomberesocidae, Scombresocidae, family Scomberesocidae, family Scombresocidae
only sauries
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Ophiodontidae, family Ophiodontidae
fishes closely related to greenlings
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Anabantidae, family Anabantidae
small freshwater spiny-finned fishes of Africa and southern Asia
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Percidae, family Percidae
active freshwater fishes; true perches and pike perches
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Trichodontidae, family Trichodontidae
two species of elongate compressed scaleless large-eyed fishes that live in sand or mud
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Ophidiidae, family Ophidiidae
eellike marine fishes
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Brotulidae, family Brotulidae
chiefly deep-sea fishes related to the Ophidiidae
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Carapidae, family Carapidae
pearlfishes: related to the Brotulidae
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Centropomidae, family Centropomidae
a family of fish or the order Perciformes including robalos
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Esocidae, family Esocidae
pikes; pickerels; muskellunges
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Centrarchidae, family Centrarchidae
sunfish family
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Serranidae, family Serranidae
marine fishes: sea basses; sea perches; groupers; jewfish
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Embiotocidae, family Embiotocidae
viviparous percoid fishes comprising the surf fishes
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Priacanthidae, family Priacanthidae
small carnivorous percoid fishes found worldwide in tropical seas
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Apogonidae, family Apogonidae
bright-colored marine fishes that incubate eggs in the mouth
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Malacanthidae, family Malacanthidae
short-headed marine fishes; often brightly colored
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Pomatomidae, family Pomatomidae
food and game fishes related to pompanos
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Rachycentridae, family Rachycentridae
family of pelagic fishes containing solely the cobia
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Echeneididae, family Echeneidae, family Echeneididae
fishes having a sucking disk on the head for clinging to other fishes and to ships
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Carangidae, family Carangidae
large family of narrow-bodied marine food fishes with widely forked tails; chiefly of warm seas
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Coryphaenidae, family Coryphaenidae
large active pelagic percoid fish
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Bramidae, family Bramidae
deep-bodied percoid fishes of the open seas
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Branchiostegidae, family Branchiostegidae
small family of marine fishes having covered gills
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Characidae, family Characidae
tropical freshwater fishes of Africa and South America and Central America
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Characinidae, family Characinidae
former name of the Characidae
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Cichlidae, family Cichlidae
cichlids
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Lutjanidae, family Lutjanidae
snappers
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Haemulidae, family Haemulidae
grunts
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Sparidae, family Sparidae
porgies; scups
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Sciaenidae, family Sciaenidae
warm-water marine fishes including the drums and grunts and croakers and sea trout
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Mullidae, family Mullidae
goatfishes or red mullets
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Mugilidae, family Mugilidae
grey mullets
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Atherinidae, family Atherinidae
small spiny-finned fishes of both salt and fresh water
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Sphyraenidae, family Sphyraenidae
monotypic family of large active fishes of tropical and subtropical waters: barracuda
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Pempheridae, family Pempheridae
sweepers
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Kyphosidae, family Kyphosidae
sea chubs
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Ephippidae, family Ephippidae
small family comprising the spadefishes
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Chaetodontidae, family Chaetodontidae
butterfly fishes
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Pomacentridae, family Pomacentridae
damselfishes
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Labridae, family Labridae
wrasses
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Scaridae, family Scaridae
parrotfishes
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Polynemidae, family Polynemidae
threadfins
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Opisthognathidae, family Opisthognathidae
jawfishes
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Uranoscopidae, family Uranoscopidae
stargazers
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Dactyloscopidae, family Dactyloscopidae
sand stargazers
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Blenniidae, family Blenniidae
a family of fish including: combtooth blennies
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Clinidae, family Clinidae
viviparous blennies of temperate and tropical seas
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Pholidae, family Pholidae, family Pholididae
a family of fish of suborder Blennioidea
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Stichaeidae, family Stichaeidae
pricklebacks
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Anarhichadidae, family Anarhichadidae
wolffishes
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Zoarcidae, family Zoarcidae
eelpouts
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Ammodytidae, family Ammodytidae
sand lances
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Callionymidae, family Callionymidae
dragonets
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Gobiidae, family Gobiidae
gobies
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Eleotridae, family Eleotridae
sleepers
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Percophidae, family Percophidae
percoid flatheads
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Toxotidae, family Toxotidae
archerfishes
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Microdesmidae, family Microdesmidae
worm fish
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Acanthuridae, family Acanthuridae
surgeonfishes
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Gempylidae, family Gempylidae
snake mackerels
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Trichiuridae, family Trichiuridae
cutlassfishes
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Scombridae, family Scombridae
marine food fishes: mackerels; chub mackerels; tuna
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Katsuwonidae, family Kasuwonidae
in some classifications considered a separate family comprising the oceanic bonitos
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Xiphiidae, family Xiphiidae
comprising the common swordfishes
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Istiophoridae, family Istiophoridae
sailfishes; spearfishes; marlins
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Luvaridae, family Luvaridae
louvars
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Stromateidae, family Stromateidae
butterfishes: harvest fishes; dollar fishes
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Gobiesocidae, family Gobiesocidae
clingfishes
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Lobotidae, family Lobotidae
tripletails
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Gerreidae, Gerridae, family Gerreidae, family Gerridae
mojarras
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Sillaginidae, family Sillaginidae
small family of small food fishes in shallow waters of the Pacific around Indonesia
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Amiidae, family Amiidae
only the bowfins
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Polyodontidae, family Polyodontidae
paddlefishes
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Acipenseridae, family Acipenseridae
sturgeons
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Lepisosteidae, family Lepisosteidae
comprises the genus Lepisosteus
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Scorpaenidae, family Scorpaenidae
scorpionfishes; rockfishes; lionfishes
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Cottidae, family Cottidae
sculpins
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Cyclopteridae, family Cyclopteridae
lumpfishes
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Liparidae, Liparididae, family Liparidae, family Liparididae
snailfishes
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Agonidae, family Agonidae
poachers
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Hexagrammidae, family Hexagrammidae
greenlings
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Platycephalidae, family Platycephalidae
scorpaenoid flatheads
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Triglidae, family Triglidae
in some classifications restricted to the gurnards and subdivided into the subfamilies Triglinae (true sea robins) and Peristediinae (armored sea robins)
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Triglinae, subfamily Triglinae
in some classifications considered a subfamily of Triglidae comprising searobins having ordinary scales and no barbels (true searobins)
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Peristediinae, subfamily Peristediinae
in some classifications considered a subfamily of Triglidae comprising the armored searobins
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Dactylopteridae, family Dactylopteridae
flying gurnards
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Balistidae, family Balistidae
triggerfishes
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Monocanthidae, family Monocanthidae
filefishes
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Ostraciidae, family Ostraciidae, family Ostraciontidae
boxfishes
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Tetraodontidae, family Tetraodontidae
puffers
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Diodontidae, family Diodontidae
spiny puffers
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Molidae, family Molidae
ocean sunfishes
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Pleuronectidae, family Pleuronectidae
righteye flounders
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Bothidae, family Bothidae
a family of fish of the order Heterosomata
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Cynoglossidae, family Cynoglossidae
tonguefishes
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Soleidae, family Soleidae
soles
