Scorpaenoid
Of spiny-finned fish and Scorpaenoidea. May also be referred to as scorpaenoid fish.
Fishes having the head armored with bony plates.
This concept's ID is @1~13943
Contains
- sculpin
Any of numerous spiny large-headed usually scaleless scorpaenoid fishes with broad mout...
- scorpaenid
Any of numerous carnivorous usually bottom-dwelling warm-water marine fishes found worldwide...
- gurnard
Bottom-dwelling coastal fishes with spiny armored heads and fingerlike pectoral fins used...
- poacher
Small slender fish (to 8 inches) with body covered by bony plates; chiefly of deeper northern...
- greenling
Food fish of the northern Pacific.
- lumpfish
Clumsy soft thick-bodied northern Atlantic fish with pelvic fins fused into a sucker; edible...
- lingcod
Food fish of the northern Pacific related to greenlings.
- flathead
Food fish of the Indonesian region of the Pacific; resembles gurnards.
- flying gurnard
Tropical fish with huge fanlike pectoral fins for underwater gliding; unrelated to...
- seasnail
Small tadpole-shaped cold-water fishes with pelvic fins forming a sucker; related to l...