Fish Family

• Carangidae

  Large family of narrow-bodied marine food fishes with widely forked tails; chiefly of...

• Serranidae

  Marine fishes: sea basses; sea perches; groupers; jewfish.

• Sciaenidae

  Warm-water marine fishes including the drums and grunts and croakers and sea trout.

• Sparidae

  Porgies; scups.

• Labridae

  Wrasses.

• Centrarchidae

  Sunfish family.

• Centropomidae

  A family of fish or the order Perciformes including robalos.

• Percidae

  Active freshwater fishes; true perches and pike perches.

• Haemulidae

  Grunts.

• Pomacentridae

  Damselfishes.

• Apogonidae

  Bright-colored marine fishes that incubate eggs in the mouth.

• Lutjanidae

  Snappers.

• Mullidae

  Goatfishes or red mullets.

• Chaetodontidae

  Butterfly fishes.

• Embiotocidae

  Viviparous percoid fishes comprising the surf fishes.

• Cichlidae

  Cichlids.

• Kyphosidae

  Sea chubs.

• Polynemidae

  Threadfins.

• Gobiidae

  Gobies.

• Acanthuridae

  Surgeonfishes.

• Anabantidae

  Small freshwater spiny-finned fishes of Africa and southern Asia.

• Trichodontidae

  Two species of elongate compressed scaleless large-eyed fishes that live in sand...

• Ophidiidae

  Eellike marine fishes.

• Brotulidae

  Chiefly deep-sea fishes related to the Ophidiidae.

• Carapidae

  Pearlfishes: related to the Brotulidae.

• Esocidae

  Pikes; pickerels; muskellunges.

• Priacanthidae

  Small carnivorous percoid fishes found worldwide in tropical seas.

• Malacanthidae

  Short-headed marine fishes; often brightly colored.

• Pomatomidae

  Food and game fishes related to pompanos.

• Rachycentridae

  Family of pelagic fishes containing solely the cobia.

• Coryphaenidae

  Large active pelagic percoid fish.

• Bramidae

  Deep-bodied percoid fishes of the open seas.

• Branchiostegidae

  Small family of marine fishes having covered gills.

• Ephippidae

  Small family comprising the spadefishes.

• Scaridae

  Parrotfishes.

• Opisthognathidae

  Jawfishes.

• Uranoscopidae

  Stargazers.

• Ammodytidae

  Sand lances.

• Callionymidae

  Dragonets.

• Eleotridae

  Sleepers.

• Percophidae

  Percoid flatheads.

• Toxotidae

  Archerfishes.

• Microdesmidae

  Worm fish.

Animal Order

• Blennioidea

  Blennies; butterfishes; gunnels.

• Mugiloidea

  Fishes distinguished by abdominal pelvic fins: families Mugilidae; Atherinidae; Sphy...

• Percoidea

  In some classifications nearly or exactly equivalent to the Perciformes which are considered...

Percoid Fish

• percoid fish

  Any of numerous spiny-finned fishes of the order Perciformes.

• bream

  Any of numerous marine percoid fishes especially (but not exclusively) of the family Spar...

• perch

  Any of numerous spiny-finned fishes of various families of the order Perciformes.

Also contains

• freshwater bream

  Any of various usually edible freshwater percoid fishes having compressed bodies...