gempylid

Types:

Gempylus serpens, snake mackerel

predatory tropical fishes with jutting jaws and strong teeth

Lepidocybium flavobrunneum, escolar

large snake mackerel with rings like spectacles around its eyes

Ruvettus pretiosus, oilfish

very large deep-water snake mackerel

Type of:

percoid, percoid fish, percoidean

any of numerous spiny-finned fishes of the order Perciformes