carangid

Definitions of carangid

1. adjective

   of or relating to fish of the family Carangidae
2. noun

   a percoid fish of the family Carangidae
   synonyms: carangid fish

   types:

   jack

   any of several fast-swimming predacious fishes of tropical to warm temperate seas

   Atlantic moonfish, Selene setapinnis, dollarfish, horse-head, horsefish, horsehead, moonfish

   any of several silvery marine fishes with very flat bodies

   pompano

   any of several deep-bodied food fishes of western Atlantic and Gulf of Mexico

   Naucrates ductor, pilotfish

   small pelagic fish often accompanying sharks or mantas

   scad

   any of a number of fishes of the family Carangidae

   Caranx hippos, crevalle jack, jack crevalle

   fish of western Atlantic and Gulf of Mexico

   Caranx bartholomaei, yellow jack

   fish of western Atlantic and Gulf of Mexico

   Caranx crysos, blue runner, runner

   fish of western Atlantic: Cape Cod to Brazil

   Elagatis bipinnulata, rainbow runner

   streamlined cigar-shaped jack; good game fish

   leatherjack, leatherjacket

   any of several New World tropical fishes having tiny embedded scales

   Alectis ciliaris, thread-fish, threadfish

   fish having greatly elongated front rays on dorsal and anal fins

   Selene vomer, lookdown, lookdown fish

   similar to moonfish but with eyes high on the truncated forehead

   amberfish, amberjack

   any of several amber to coppery fork-tailed warm-water carangid fishes

   Seriola dorsalis, yellowtail

   game fish of southern California and Mexico having a yellow tail fin

   Seriola zonata, banded rudderfish, rudderfish

   fish having the habit of following ships; found in North American and South American coastal waters

   Seriola grandis, kingfish

   large game fish of Australia and New Zealand

   Florida pompano, Trachinotus carolinus

   found in coastal waters New England to Brazil except clear waters of West Indies

   Trachinotus falcatus, permit

   large game fish; found in waters of the West Indies

   Spanish mackerel, Trachurus symmetricus, horse mackerel, jack mackerel, saurel

   a California food fish

   Trachurus trachurus, horse mackerel, saurel

   large elongated compressed food fish of the Atlantic waters of Europe

   Selar crumenophthalmus, big-eyed scad, bigeye scad, goggle-eye

   of Atlantic coastal waters; commonly used for bait

   Decapterus macarellus, mackerel scad, mackerel shad

   small silvery fish; Nova Scotia to Brazil

   Decapterus punctatus, cigarfish, quiaquia, round scad

   small fusiform fish of western Atlantic

   type of:

   percoid, percoid fish, percoidean

   any of numerous spiny-finned fishes of the order Perciformes