|

gurnard

DEFINITIONS OF: gurnard

1

n bottom-dwelling coastal fishes with spiny armored heads and fingerlike pectoral fins used for crawling along the sea bottom

Types:
show 4 types...
hide 4 types...
Trigla lucerna, tub gurnard, yellow gurnard
a kind of gurnard
sea robin, searobin
American gurnard; mostly found in bays and estuaries
Prionotus carolinus, northern sea robin
large searobin; found from Nova Scotia to Florida
Peristedion miniatum, armored sea robin, armored searobin
sea robins having bony scutes on the body and barbels on the chin; found mostly on the continental slope
Type of:
scorpaenoid, scorpaenoid fish
fishes having the head armored with bony plates
WORD FAMILY
USAGE EXAMPLES