blennioid

blennioid

(ˈblɛnɪˌɔɪd) adj (Animals) of, relating to, or belonging to the Blennioidea, a large suborder of small mainly marine spiny-finned fishes having an elongated body with reduced pelvic fins. The group includes the blennies, butterfish, and gunneln (Animals) any fish belonging to the Blennioidea

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blennioid - elongated mostly scaleless marine fishes with large pectoral fins and reduced pelvic finsblennioid fishpercoid, percoid fish, percoidean - any of numerous spiny-finned fishes of the order PerciformesBlennioidea, suborder Blennioidea - blennies; butterfishes; gunnelsblenny, combtooth blenny - small usually scaleless fishes with comb-like teeth living about rocky shores; are territorial and live in holes between rocksclinid, clinid fish - mostly small blennioid fishes of coral reefs and seagrass bedspikeblenny - tropical American fishes; males are aggressively defensive of their territorybracketed blenny, gunnel - small eellike fishes common in shallow waters of the northern Atlanticprickleback - small elongate fishes of shallow northern seas; a long dorsal fin consists entirely of spinesCryptacanthodes maculatus, ghostfish, wrymouth - eellike Atlantic bottom fish with large almost vertical mouthwolf fish, wolffish, catfish - large ferocious northern deep-sea food fishes with strong teeth and no pelvic finseelpout, pout - marine eellike mostly bottom-dwelling fishes of northern seas