stromateid fish

Definitions of stromateid fish

1. noun

   small marine fish with a short compressed body and feeble spines
   synonyms: butterfish, stromateid

   types:

   Poronotus triacanthus, dollarfish

   small food fish of Atlantic coast

   California pompano, Palometa simillima, palometa

   smaller than Florida pompano; common in West Indies

   Paprilus alepidotus, harvestfish

   butterfish up to a foot long of Atlantic waters from Chesapeake Bay to Argentina

   driftfish

   small (6 inches) tropical butterfishes found worldwide

   driftfish

   larger butterfishes of the western Atlantic from the New York area to the northern Gulf of Mexico

   Hyperglyphe perciformis, barrelfish, black rudderfish

   blackish fish of New England waters

   type of:

   percoid, percoid fish, percoidean

   any of numerous spiny-finned fishes of the order Perciformes