family Sciaenidae

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Noun

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family Sciaenidae - warm-water marine fishes including the drums and grunts and croakers and sea troutSciaenidaefish family - any of various families of fishorder Perciformes, order Percomorphi, Perciformes, Percomorphi - one of the largest natural groups of fishes of both marine and fresh water: true perches; basses; tunasciaenid, sciaenid fish - widely distributed family of carnivorous percoid fishes having a large air bladder used to produce soundEquetus, genus Equetus - drumfishBairdiella, genus Bairdiella - drumfishgenus Sciaenops, Sciaenops - a genus of Sciaenidaegenus Sciaena, Sciaena - type genus of the Sciaenidae: croakersgenus Micropogonias, Micropogonias - croakersgenus Umbrina, Umbrina - croakersgenus Menticirrhus, Menticirrhus - kingfishes; whitinggenus Genyonemus, Genyonemus - a genus of Sciaenidaegenus Seriphus, Seriphus - a genus of SciaenidaeCynoscion, genus Cynoscion - sea trout