scorpaenoid

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scorpaenoid fish

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Ophiodon elongatus, lingcod

food fish of the northern Pacific related to greenlings

scorpaenid, scorpaenid fish

any of numerous carnivorous usually bottom-dwelling warm-water marine fishes found worldwide but most abundant in the Pacific

sculpin

any of numerous spiny large-headed usually scaleless scorpaenoid fishes with broad mouths

Cyclopterus lumpus, lumpfish

clumsy soft thick-bodied northern Atlantic fish with pelvic fins fused into a sucker; edible roe used for caviar

Liparis liparis, sea snail, seasnail, snailfish

small tadpole-shaped cold-water fishes with pelvic fins forming a sucker; related to lumpfish

poacher, sea poacher, sea poker

small slender fish (to 8 inches) with body covered by bony plates; chiefly of deeper northern Pacific waters

greenling

food fish of the northern Pacific

flathead

food fish of the Indonesian region of the Pacific; resembles gurnards

gurnard

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

butterflyfish, flying gurnard, flying robin

tropical fish with huge fanlike pectoral fins for underwater gliding; unrelated to searobins

scorpion fish, scorpionfish, sea scorpion

marine fishes having a tapering body with an armored head and venomous spines

lionfish

brightly striped fish of the tropical Pacific having elongated spiny fins

Synanceja verrucosa, stonefish

venomous tropical marine fish resembling a piece of rock

rockfish

marine food fish found among rocks along the northern coasts of Europe and America

bullhead

freshwater sculpin with a large flattened bony-plated head with hornlike spines

miller's-thumb

small freshwater sculpin of Europe and North America

Hemitripterus americanus, sea raven

large sculpin of western Atlantic; inflates itself when caught

Myxocephalus aenaeus, grubby

small sculpin of the coast of New England

lumpsucker

any of several very small lumpfishes

Agonus cataphractus, armed bullhead, pogge

northern Atlantic sea poacher

Aspidophoroides monopterygius, alligatorfish

small very elongate sea poachers

Hexagrammos decagrammus, kelp greenling

common food and sport fish of western coast of North America

Oxylebius pictus, convict fish, convictfish, painted greenling

greenling with whitish body marked with black bands

Trigla lucerna, tub gurnard, yellow gurnard

a kind of gurnard

sea robin, searobin

American gurnard; mostly found in bays and estuaries

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acanthopterygian, spiny-finned fish

a teleost fish with fins that are supported by sharp inflexible rays