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.

Priacanthus

• bigeye

  Red fishes of American coastal tropical waters having very large eyes and rough scales.

• catalufa

  Brightly colored carnivorous fish of western Atlantic and West Indies waters.

Also contains

• scombroid

  Important marine food and game fishes found in all tropical and temperate seas; some are...

• grunt

  Medium-sized tropical marine food fishes that utter grunting sounds when caught.

• blennioid fish

  Elongated mostly scaleless marine fishes with large pectoral fins and reduced pelvic...

• wrasse

  Chiefly tropical marine fishes with fleshy lips and powerful teeth; usually brightly col...

• butterfish

  Small marine fish with a short compressed body and feeble spines.

• sciaenid fish

  Widely distributed family of carnivorous percoid fishes having a large air bladder...

• snapper

  Any of several large sharp-toothed marine food and sport fishes of the family Lutjanidae...

• sunfish

  Small carnivorous freshwater percoid fishes of North America usually having a laterally...

• carangid fish

  A percoid fish of the family Carangidae.

• perch

  Spiny-finned freshwater food and game fishes.

• mullet

  Freshwater or coastal food fishes a spindle-shaped body; found worldwide.

• pike

  Any of several elongate long-snouted freshwater game and food fishes widely distributed in...

• serranid fish

  Marine food sport fishes mainly of warm coastal waters.

• sparid

  Spiny-finned food fishes of warm waters having well-developed teeth.

• gempylid

  Snake mackerels; elongated marine fishes with oily flesh; resembles mackerels; found w...

• dolphin

  Large slender food and game fish widely distributed in warm seas (especially around Haw...

• butterfly fish

  Small usually brilliantly colored tropical marine fishes having narrow deep bodies...

• damselfish

  Small brilliantly colored tropical marine fishes of coral reefs.

• cardinalfish

  Small red fishes of coral reefs and inshore tropical waters.

• surgeonfish

  Brightly colored coral-reef fish with knifelike spines at the tail.

• cichlid

  Freshwater fishes of tropical America and Africa and Asia similar to American sunfishes...

• threadfin

  Mullet-like tropical marine fishes having pectoral fins with long threadlike rays.

• mullet

  Bottom dwelling marine warm water fishes with two barbels on the chin.

• surfperch

  Small to medium-sized shallow-water fishes of the Pacific coast of North America.

• bluefish

  Bluish warm-water marine food and game fish that follow schools of small fishes into shallow...

• gudgeon

  Small spiny-finned fish of coastal or brackish waters having a large head and elongated...

• robalo

  A kind of percoid fish.

• sea chub

  Schooling fishes mostly of Indian and western Pacific oceans; two species in western A...

• bass

  Nontechnical name for any of numerous edible marine and freshwater spiny-finned fishes.

• worm fish

  Poorly known family of small tropical shallow-water fishes related to gobies.

• cutlassfish

  Long-bodied marine fishes having a long whiplike scaleless body and sharp teeth; closely...

• tilefish

  Important marine food fishes.

• parrotfish

  Gaudy tropical fishes with parrotlike beaks formed by fusion of teeth.

• jawfish

  Small large-mouthed tropical marine fishes common along sandy bottoms; males brood egg balls...

• stargazer

  Heavy-bodied marine bottom-lurkers with eyes on flattened top of the head.

• sand stargazer

  Small pallid fishes of shoal tropical waters of North America and South America having...

• tilefish

  Yellow-spotted violet food fish of warm deep waters.

• cobia

  Large dark-striped tropical food and game fish related to remoras; found worldwide in coastal...

• sleeper

  Tropical fish that resembles a goby and rests quietly on the bottom in shallow water.

• flathead

  Pallid bottom-dwelling flat-headed fish with large eyes and a duck-like snout.

• archerfish

  Any of several small freshwater fishes that catch insects by squirting water at them...

• sandfish

  Either of two small silvery scaleless fishes of the northern Pacific that burrow into ...

• cusk-eel

  Elongate compressed somewhat eel-shaped fishes.

• brotula

  Deep-sea fishes.

• pearlfish

  Found living within the alimentary canals of e.g. sea cucumbers or between the shells...

• angelfish

  Deep-bodied disk-shaped food fish of warmer western Atlantic coastal waters.