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squirrelfish
very small, brightly colored (especially red) nocturnal fishes of shallow waters or tropical reefs; they make sounds like a squirrel's bark
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anomalops, flashlight fish
fish having a luminous organ beneath eye; of warm waters of the western Pacific and Puerto Rico
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Photoblepharon palpebratus, flashlight fish
fish of deep dark waters having a light organ below each eye
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dory
marine fishes widely distributed in mid-waters and deep slope waters
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Capros aper, boarfish
fish with a projecting snout
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boarfish
fish with large eyes and long snouts
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prickleback, stickleback
small (2-4 inches) pugnacious mostly scaleless spiny-backed fishes of northern fresh and littoral waters having elaborate courtship; subjects of much research
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batfish
bottom-dweller of warm western Atlantic coastal waters having a flattened scaleless body that crawls about on fleshy pectoral and pelvic fins
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Lophius Americanus, allmouth, angler, angler fish, anglerfish, goosefish, lotte, monkfish
fishes having large mouths with a wormlike filament attached for luring prey
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Opsanus tau, toadfish
bottom-dwelling fish having scaleless slimy skin and a broad thick head with a wide mouth
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frogfish
fish having a frog-like mouth with a lure on the snout
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sargassum fish
small fantastically formed and colored fishes found among masses of sargassum
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percoid, percoid fish, percoidean
any of numerous spiny-finned fishes of the order Perciformes
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remora, suckerfish, sucking fish
marine fishes with a flattened elongated body and a sucking disk on the head for attaching to large fish or moving objects
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silverside, silversides
small fishes having a silver stripe along each side; abundant along the Atlantic coast of the United States
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barracuda
any voracious marine fish of the genus Sphyraena having an elongated cylindrical body and large mouth with projecting lower jaw and long strong teeth
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launce, sand eel, sand lance, sand launce
very small silvery eellike schooling fishes that burrow into sandy beaches
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dragonet
small often brightly colored scaleless marine bottom-dwellers; found in tropical and warm temperate waters of Europe and America
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scorpaenoid, scorpaenoid fish
fishes having the head armored with bony plates
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plectognath, plectognath fish
tropical marine fishes having the teeth fused into a beak and thick skin covered with bony plates or spines
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flatfish
any of several families of fishes having flattened bodies that swim along the sea floor on one side of the body with both eyes on the upper side
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Holocentrus coruscus, reef squirrelfish
on reefs from Bermuda and Florida to northern South America
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Holocentrus bullisi, deepwater squirrelfish
a squirrelfish found from South Carolina to Bermuda and Gulf of Mexico
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Holocentrus ascensionis
bright red fish of West Indies and Bermuda
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soldier-fish, soldierfish
the larger squirrelfishes
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John Dory, Zeus faber
European dory
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Gasterosteus aculeatus, three-spined stickleback
of rivers and coastal regions
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Gasterosteus pungitius, ten-spined stickleback
confined to rivers
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oyster fish, oyster-fish, oysterfish
a variety of toadfish
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Ophiodon elongatus, lingcod
food fish of the northern Pacific related to greenlings
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perch
any of numerous spiny-finned fishes of various families of the order Perciformes
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perch
spiny-finned freshwater food and game fishes
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sandfish
either of two small silvery scaleless fishes of the northern Pacific that burrow into sand
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cusk-eel
elongate compressed somewhat eel-shaped fishes
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brotula
deep-sea fishes
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pearl-fish, pearlfish
found living within the alimentary canals of e.g. sea cucumbers or between the shells of pearl oysters in or near shallow seagrass beds
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robalo
a kind of percoid fish
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pike
any of several elongate long-snouted freshwater game and food fishes widely distributed in cooler parts of the northern hemisphere
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centrarchid, sunfish
small carnivorous freshwater percoid fishes of North America usually having a laterally compressed body and metallic luster: crappies; black bass; bluegills; pumpkinseed
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bass
nontechnical name for any of numerous edible marine and freshwater spiny-finned fishes
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serranid, serranid fish
marine food sport fishes mainly of warm coastal waters
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surf fish, surffish, surfperch
small to medium-sized shallow-water fishes of the Pacific coast of North America
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bigeye
red fishes of American coastal tropical waters having very large eyes and rough scales
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Priacanthus arenatus, catalufa
brightly colored carnivorous fish of western Atlantic and West Indies waters
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cardinalfish
small red fishes of coral reefs and inshore tropical waters
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Lopholatilus chamaeleonticeps, tilefish
yellow-spotted violet food fish of warm deep waters
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Pomatomus saltatrix, bluefish
bluish warm-water marine food and game fish that follow schools of small fishes into shallow waters
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Rachycentron canadum, cobia, sergeant fish
large dark-striped tropical food and game fish related to remoras; found worldwide in coastal to open waters
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Echeneis naucrates, sharksucker
remoras found attached to sharks
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Remilegia australis, whale sucker, whalesucker
large blue Pacific remora that attaches to whales and dolphins
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carangid, carangid fish
a percoid fish of the family Carangidae
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dolphin, dolphinfish, mahimahi
large slender food and game fish widely distributed in warm seas (especially around Hawaii)
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blanquillo, tilefish
important marine food fishes
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cichlid, cichlid fish
freshwater fishes of tropical America and Africa and Asia similar to American sunfishes; some are food fishes; many small ones are popular in aquariums
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snapper
any of several large sharp-toothed marine food and sport fishes of the family Lutjanidae of mainly tropical coastal waters
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grunt
medium-sized tropical marine food fishes that utter grunting sounds when caught
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sparid, sparid fish
spiny-finned food fishes of warm waters having well-developed teeth
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bream, sea bream
any of numerous marine percoid fishes especially (but not exclusively) of the family Sparidae
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sciaenid, sciaenid fish
widely distributed family of carnivorous percoid fishes having a large air bladder used to produce sound
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mullet
bottom dwelling marine warm water fishes with two barbels on the chin
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gray mullet, grey mullet, mullet
freshwater or coastal food fishes a spindle-shaped body; found worldwide
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Atherinopsis californiensis, jacksmelt
a relatively large silversides of the Pacific coast of North America (known to reach 18 inches in length)
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Sphyraena barracuda, great barracuda
large (up to 6 ft) greyish-brown barracuda highly regarded as a food and sport fish; may be dangerous to swimmers
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sea chub
schooling fishes mostly of Indian and western Pacific oceans; two species in western Atlantic
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Chaetodipterus faber, angelfish, spadefish
deep-bodied disk-shaped food fish of warmer western Atlantic coastal waters
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butterfly fish
small usually brilliantly colored tropical marine fishes having narrow deep bodies with large broad fins; found worldwide
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damselfish, demoiselle
small brilliantly colored tropical marine fishes of coral reefs
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wrasse
chiefly tropical marine fishes with fleshy lips and powerful teeth; usually brightly colored
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parrotfish, polly fish, pollyfish
gaudy tropical fishes with parrotlike beaks formed by fusion of teeth
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threadfin
mullet-like tropical marine fishes having pectoral fins with long threadlike rays
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jawfish
small large-mouthed tropical marine fishes common along sandy bottoms; males brood egg balls in their mouths; popular aquarium fishes
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stargazer
heavy-bodied marine bottom-lurkers with eyes on flattened top of the head
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sand stargazer
small pallid fishes of shoal tropical waters of North America and South America having eyes on stalks atop head; they burrow in sand to await prey
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blennioid, blennioid fish
elongated mostly scaleless marine fishes with large pectoral fins and reduced pelvic fins
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goby, gudgeon
small spiny-finned fish of coastal or brackish waters having a large head and elongated tapering body having the ventral fins modified as a sucker
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sleeper, sleeper goby
tropical fish that resembles a goby and rests quietly on the bottom in shallow water
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flathead
pallid bottom-dwelling flat-headed fish with large eyes and a duck-like snout
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Toxotes jaculatrix, archerfish
any of several small freshwater fishes that catch insects by squirting water at them and knocking them into the water; found in Indonesia and Australia
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worm fish
poorly known family of small tropical shallow-water fishes related to gobies
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surgeonfish
brightly colored coral-reef fish with knifelike spines at the tail
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gempylid
snake mackerels; elongated marine fishes with oily flesh; resembles mackerels; found worldwide
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cutlassfish, frost fish, hairtail
long-bodied marine fishes having a long whiplike scaleless body and sharp teeth; closely related to snake mackerel
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scombroid, scombroid fish
important marine food and game fishes found in all tropical and temperate seas; some are at least partially endothermic and can thrive in colder waters
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butterfish, stromateid, stromateid fish
small marine fish with a short compressed body and feeble spines
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clingfish
very small (to 3 inches) flattened marine fish with a sucking disc on the abdomen for clinging to rocks etc.
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tripletail
large food fish of warm waters worldwide having long anal and dorsal fins that with a caudal fin suggest a three-lobed tail
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mojarra
small silvery schooling fishes with protrusible mouths found in warm coastal waters
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whiting
a small fish of the genus Sillago; excellent food fish
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scorpaenid, scorpaenid fish
any of numerous carnivorous usually bottom-dwelling warm-water marine fishes found worldwide but most abundant in the Pacific
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sculpin
any of numerous spiny large-headed usually scaleless scorpaenoid fishes with broad mouths
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Cyclopterus lumpus, lumpfish
clumsy soft thick-bodied northern Atlantic fish with pelvic fins fused into a sucker; edible roe used for caviar
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Liparis liparis, sea snail, seasnail, snailfish
small tadpole-shaped cold-water fishes with pelvic fins forming a sucker; related to lumpfish
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poacher, sea poacher, sea poker
small slender fish (to 8 inches) with body covered by bony plates; chiefly of deeper northern Pacific waters
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greenling
food fish of the northern Pacific
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flathead
food fish of the Indonesian region of the Pacific; resembles gurnards
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gurnard
bottom-dwelling coastal fishes with spiny armored heads and fingerlike pectoral fins used for crawling along the sea bottom
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butterflyfish, flying gurnard, flying robin
tropical fish with huge fanlike pectoral fins for underwater gliding; unrelated to searobins
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triggerfish
any of numerous compressed deep-bodied tropical fishes with sandpapery skin and erectile spines in the first dorsal fin
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filefish
narrow flattened warm-water fishes with leathery skin and a long file-like dorsal spine
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boxfish, trunkfish
any of numerous small tropical fishes having body and head encased in bony plates
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blowfish, globefish, puffer, pufferfish
any of numerous marine fishes whose elongated spiny body can inflate itself with water or air to form a globe; several species contain a potent nerve poison; closely related to spiny puffers
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spiny puffer
puffers having rigid or erectile spines
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headfish, mola, ocean sunfish, sunfish
among the largest bony fish; pelagic fish having an oval compressed body with high dorsal and anal fins and caudal fin reduced to a rudder-like lobe; worldwide in warm waters
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flounder
any of various European and non-European marine flatfish
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righteye flounder, righteyed flounder
flounders with both eyes on the right side of the head
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halibut, holibut
marine food fish of the northern Atlantic or northern Pacific; the largest flatfish and one of the largest teleost fishes
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lefteye flounder, lefteyed flounder
flatfishes with both eyes on the left side of the head
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tongue-fish, tonguefish
left-eyed marine flatfish whose tail tapers to a point; of little commercial value
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sole
right-eyed flatfish; many are valued as food; most common in warm seas especially European