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serranid fish

DEFINITIONS OF: serranid fish

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n marine food sport fishes mainly of warm coastal waters

Synonyms:
serranid
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Morone americana, silver perch, white perch
small silvery food and game fish of eastern United States streams
Morone interrupta, yellow bass
North American freshwater bass resembling the larger marine striped bass
sea bass
any of various food and sport fishes of the Atlantic coast of the United States having an elongated body and long spiny dorsal fin
soapfish
fishes with slimy mucus-covered skin; found in the warm Atlantic coastal waters of America
Synagrops bellus, blackmouth bass
small marine fish with black mouth and gill cavity
Centropristis philadelphica, rock bass, rock sea bass
a kind of sea bass
Centropistes striata, black bass, black sea bass
bluish black-striped sea bass of the Atlantic coast of the United States
Roccus saxatilis, rockfish, striped bass, striper
marine food and game fish with dark longitudinal stripes; migrates upriver to spawn; sometimes placed in the genus Morone
Polyprion americanus, stone bass, wreckfish
brown fish of the Atlantic and Mediterranean found around rocks and shipwrecks
Serranus subligarius, belted sandfish
found in warm shallow waters of western Atlantic
grouper
usually solitary bottom sea basses of warm seas
Type of:
percoid, percoid fish, percoidean
any of numerous spiny-finned fishes of the order Perciformes
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