| 单词 | percoidean |
| 释义 | percoidean (extremely rare) n WORD FAMILY percoidean n any of numerous spiny-finned fishes of the order Perciformes Syn|Hypo|Hyper percoid, percoid fish perch any of numerous spiny-finned fishes of various families of the order Perciformes perchspiny-finned freshwater food and game fishes sandfisheither of two small silvery scaleless fishes of the northern Pacific that burrow into sand cusk-eelelongate compressed somewhat eel-shaped fishes brotuladeep-sea fishes pearl-fish, pearlfishfound living within the alimentary canals of e.g. sea cucumbers or between the shells of pearl oysters in or near shallow seagrass beds robaloa kind of percoid fish pikeany of several elongate long-snouted freshwater game and food fishes widely distributed in cooler parts of the northern hemisphere centrarchid, sunfishsmall carnivorous freshwater percoid fishes of North America usually having a laterally compressed body and metallic luster: crappies; black bass; bluegills; pumpkinseed bassnontechnical name for any of numerous edible marine and freshwater spiny-finned fishes serranid, serranid fishmarine food sport fishes mainly of warm coastal waters surf fish, surffish, surfperchsmall to medium-sized shallow-water fishes of the Pacific coast of North America bigeyered fishes of American coastal tropical waters having very large eyes and rough scales Priacanthus arenatus, catalufabrightly colored carnivorous fish of western Atlantic and West Indies waters cardinalfishsmall red fishes of coral reefs and inshore tropical waters Lopholatilus chamaeleonticeps, tilefishyellow-spotted violet food fish of warm deep waters Pomatomus saltatrix, bluefishbluish warm-water marine food and game fish that follow schools of small fishes into shallow waters Rachycentron canadum, cobia, sergeant fishlarge dark-striped tropical food and game fish related to remoras; found worldwide in coastal to open waters carangid, carangid fisha percoid fish of the family Carangidae dolphin, dolphinfish, mahimahilarge slender food and game fish widely distributed in warm seas (especially around Hawaii) blanquillo, tilefishimportant marine food fishes cichlid, cichlid fishfreshwater fishes of tropical America and Africa and Asia similar to American sunfishes; some are food fishes; many small ones are popular in aquariums snapperany of several large sharp-toothed marine food and sport fishes of the family Lutjanidae of mainly tropical coastal waters gruntmedium-sized tropical marine food fishes that utter grunting sounds when caught sparid, sparid fishspiny-finned food fishes of warm waters having well-developed teeth bream, sea breamany of numerous marine percoid fishes especially (but not exclusively) of the family Sparidae sciaenid, sciaenid fishwidely distributed family of carnivorous percoid fishes having a large air bladder used to produce sound mulletbottom dwelling marine warm water fishes with two barbels on the chin gray mullet, grey mullet, mulletfreshwater or coastal food fishes a spindle-shaped body; found worldwide sea chubschooling fishes mostly of Indian and western Pacific oceans; two species in western Atlantic Chaetodipterus faber, angelfish, spadefishdeep-bodied disk-shaped food fish of warmer western Atlantic coastal waters butterfly fishsmall usually brilliantly colored tropical marine fishes having narrow deep bodies with large broad fins; found worldwide damselfish, demoisellesmall brilliantly colored tropical marine fishes of coral reefs wrassechiefly tropical marine fishes with fleshy lips and powerful teeth; usually brightly colored parrotfish, polly fish, pollyfishgaudy tropical fishes with parrotlike beaks formed by fusion of teeth threadfinmullet-like tropical marine fishes having pectoral fins with long threadlike rays jawfishsmall large-mouthed tropical marine fishes common along sandy bottoms; males brood egg balls in their mouths; popular aquarium fishes stargazerheavy-bodied marine bottom-lurkers with eyes on flattened top of the head sand stargazersmall pallid fishes of shoal tropical waters of North America and South America having eyes on stalks atop head; they burrow in sand to await prey blennioid, blennioid fishelongated mostly scaleless marine fishes with large pectoral fins and reduced pelvic fins goby, gudgeonsmall spiny-finned fish of coastal or brackish waters having a large head and elongated tapering body having the ventral fins modified as a sucker sleeper, sleeper gobytropical fish that resembles a goby and rests quietly on the bottom in shallow water flatheadpallid bottom-dwelling flat-headed fish with large eyes and a duck-like snout Toxotes jaculatrix, archerfishany of several small freshwater fishes that catch insects by squirting water at them and knocking them into the water; found in Indonesia and Australia worm fishpoorly known family of small tropical shallow-water fishes related to gobies surgeonfishbrightly colored coral-reef fish with knifelike spines at the tail gempylidsnake mackerels; elongated marine fishes with oily flesh; resembles mackerels; found worldwide cutlassfish, frost fish, hairtaillong-bodied marine fishes having a long whiplike scaleless body and sharp teeth; closely related to snake mackerel scombroid, scombroid fishimportant marine food and game fishes found in all tropical and temperate seas; some are at least partially endothermic and can thrive in colder waters butterfish, stromateid, stromateid fishsmall marine fish with a short compressed body and feeble spines clingfishvery small (to 3 inches) flattened marine fish with a sucking disc on the abdomen for clinging to rocks etc. tripletaillarge food fish of warm waters worldwide having long anal and dorsal fins that with a caudal fin suggest a three-lobed tail mojarrasmall silvery schooling fishes with protrusible mouths found in warm coastal waters whitinga small fish of the genus Sillago; excellent food fish Perca flavescens, yellow perchNorth American perch European perch, Perca fluviatilisa perch native to Europe pike perch, pike-perchany of several pike-like fishes of the perch family Percina tanasi, snail dartera small snail-eating perch of the Tennessee River snooklarge tropical American food and game fishes of coastal and brackish waters; resemble pike Esox lucius, northern pikevoracious piscivorous pike of waters of northern hemisphere Esox masquinongy, muskellungelarge (60 to 80 pounds) sport fish of North America pickerelany of several North American species of small pike crappiesmall sunfishes of central United States rivers bream, freshwater breamany of various usually edible freshwater percoid fishes having compressed bodies and shiny scales; especially (but not exclusively) of the genus Lepomis Lepomis gibbosus, pumpkinseedsmall brilliantly colored North American sunfish freshwater bassNorth American food and game fish Ambloplites rupestris, rock bass, rock sunfishgame and food fish of upper Mississippi and Great Lakes black basswidely distributed and highly prized American freshwater game fishes (sunfish family) Morone americana, silver perch, white perchsmall silvery food and game fish of eastern United States streams Morone interrupta, yellow bassNorth American freshwater bass resembling the larger marine striped bass sea bassany of various food and sport fishes of the Atlantic coast of the United States having an elongated body and long spiny dorsal fin soapfishfishes with slimy mucus-covered skin; found in the warm Atlantic coastal waters of America Hipsurus caryi, rainbow perch, rainbow seaperchPacific coast fish Apogon maculatus, flame fish, flamefisha cardinalfish found in tropical Atlantic coastal waters Astropogon stellatus, conchfishfound in West Indies; lives in mantle cavity of a living conch jackany of several fast-swimming predacious fishes of tropical to warm temperate seas Atlantic moonfish, Selene setapinnis, dollarfish, horse-head, horsefish, horsehead, moonfishany of several silvery marine fishes with very flat bodies pompanoany of several deep-bodied food fishes of western Atlantic and Gulf of Mexico Naucrates ductor, pilotfishsmall pelagic fish often accompanying sharks or mantas scadany of a number of fishes of the family Carangidae Coryphaena hippurusthe more common dolphinfish valued as food; about six feet long Coryphaena equisetisa kind of dolphinfish Brama raii, pomfretdeep-bodied sooty-black pelagic spiny-finned fish of the northern Atlantic and northern Pacific; valued for food Tilapia nilotica, boltiimportant food fish of the Nile and other rivers of Africa and Asia Minor Lutjanus blackfordi, red snapperan esteemed food fish with pinkish red head and body; common in the Atlantic coastal waters of North America and the Gulf of Mexico Lutjanus griseus, gray snapper, grey snapper, mangrove snapperfound in shallow waters off the coast of Florida Lutjanus analis, mutton snapper, muttonfishsimilar to and often marketed as `red snapper'; Lutjanus apodus, schoolmasterfood fish of warm Caribbean and Atlantic waters Ocyurus chrysurus, yellowtail, yellowtail snappersuperior food fish of the tropical Atlantic and Caribbean with broad yellow stripe along the sides and on the tail Haemulon album, margatea grunt with a red mouth that is found from Florida to Brazil Haemulon macrostomum, Spanish grunta kind of grunt Haemulon aurolineatum, tomtatefound off the West Indies and Florida Haemulon malanurum, cottonwickof warm Atlantic waters Haemulon parra, sailor's-choice, sailors choicea grunt found from Florida to Brazil and Gulf of Mexico Anisotremus virginicus, pork-fish, porkfishblack and gold grunt found from Bermuda to Caribbean to Brazil Anisotremus surinamensis, black margate, pompondusky grey food fish found from Louisiana and Florida southward Orthopristis chrysopterus, hogfish, pigfishfound from Long Island southward porgyimportant deep-bodied food and sport fish of warm and tropical coastal waters; found worldwide European sea bream, Pagellus centrodontusfood fish of European coastal waters Archosargus rhomboidalis, Atlantic sea breamsea bream of warm Atlantic waters Archosargus probatocephalus, sheepsheadlarge (up to 20 lbs) food fish of the eastern coast of the United States and Mexico Lagodon rhomboides, pinfish, sailor's-choice, squirrelfishsimilar to sea bream; small spiny-finned fish found in bays along the southeastern coast of the United States Chrysophrys auratus, snapperAustralian food fish having a pinkish body with blue spots Chrysophrys australis, black breamimportant dark-colored edible food and game fish of Australia drum, drumfishsmall to medium-sized bottom-dwelling food and game fishes of shallow coastal and fresh waters that make a drumming noise Sciaena antarctica, jewfish, mullowaylarge important food fish of Australia; almost indistinguishable from the maigre Sciaena aquila, maiger, maigrelarge European marine food fish croakerany of several fishes that make a croaking noise whitingany of several food fishes of North American coastal waters sea troutany of several sciaenid fishes of North American coastal waters Mullus surmuletus, goatfish, red mullet, surmulletbrightly colored tropical fishes with chin barbels Mugil cephalus, striped mulletmost important commercial mullet in eastern United States Mugil curema, white mulletsilvery mullet of Atlantic and Pacific coasts Mugil liza, lizasimilar to the striped mullet and takes its place in the Caribbean region Bermuda chub, Kyphosus sectatrix, rudderfishfood and game fish around Bermuda and Florida; often follow ships chaetodonany fish of the genus Chaetodon angelfisha butterfly fish of the genus Pomacanthus Holocanthus tricolor, rock beautygold and black butterflyfish found from West Indies to Brazil Pomacentrus leucostictus, beaugregorya blue and yellow damselfish of Bermuda and Florida and the West Indies anemone fishlive associated with sea anemones Abudefduf saxatilis, sergeant majorlarge blue-grey black-striped damselfish; nearly worldwide Achoerodus gouldii, giant pigfish, pigfishfound around the Great Barrier Reef Lachnolaimus maximus, hog snapper, hogfishlarge wrasse of western Atlantic; head of male resembles a pig's snout Halicoeres bivittatus, slippery dicksmall wrasse of tropical Atlantic Halicoeres radiatus, pudding-wife, puddingwifebluish and bronze wrasse; found from Florida keys to Brazil Thalassoma bifasciatum, blueheadsmall Atlantic wrasse the male of which has a brilliant blue head razor fish, razor-fishany of several small wrasses with compressed sharp-edged heads of the West Indies and Mediterranean Tautoga onitis, blackfish, tautoglarge dark-colored food fish of the Atlantic coast of North America Tautogolabrus adspersus, bergall, cunnercommon in north Atlantic coastal waters of the United States Polydactylus virginicus, barbufound along western Atlantic coast blenny, combtooth blennysmall usually scaleless fishes with comb-like teeth living about rocky shores; are territorial and live in holes between rocks clinid, clinid fishmostly small blennioid fishes of coral reefs and seagrass beds pikeblennytropical American fishes; males are aggressively defensive of their territory bracketed blenny, gunnelsmall eellike fishes common in shallow waters of the northern Atlantic pricklebacksmall elongate fishes of shallow northern seas; a long dorsal fin consists entirely of spines Cryptacanthodes maculatus, ghostfish, wrymoutheellike Atlantic bottom fish with large almost vertical mouth catfish, wolf fish, wolffishlarge ferocious northern deep-sea food fishes with strong teeth and no pelvic fins eelpout, poutmarine eellike mostly bottom-dwelling fishes of northern seas mudskipper, mudspringerfound in tropical coastal regions of Africa and Asia; able to move on land on strong pectoral fins Acanthurus chirurgus, doctor-fish, doctorfishsurgeon fish of the West Indies Gempylus serpens, snake mackerelpredatory tropical fishes with jutting jaws and strong teeth Lepidocybium flavobrunneum, escolarlarge snake mackerel with rings like spectacles around its eyes Ruvettus pretiosus, oilfishvery large deep-water snake mackerel mackerelany of various fishes of the family Scombridae tuna, tunnyany very large marine food and game fish of the genus Thunnus; related to mackerel; chiefly of warm waters bonitoany of various scombroid fishes intermediate in size and characteristics between mackerels and tunas Euthynnus pelamis, skipjack, skipjack tunaoceanic schooling tuna of considerable value in Pacific but less in Atlantic; reaches 75 pounds; very similar to if not the same as oceanic bonito Katsuwonus pelamis, bonito, oceanic bonitofish whose flesh is dried and flaked for Japanese cookery; may be same species as skipjack tuna Xiphias gladius, swordfishlarge toothless marine food fish with a long swordlike upper jaw; not completely cold-blooded i.e. they are able to warm their brains and eyes: worldwide in warm waters but feed on cold ocean floor coming to surface at night sailfishlarge pelagic game fish having an elongated upper jaw and long dorsal fin that resembles a sail billfishgiant warm-water game fish having a prolonged and rounded toothless upper jaw Luvarus imperialis, louvarlarge silvery fish found worldwide in warm seas but nowhere common; resembles a whale and feeds on plankton Poronotus triacanthus, dollarfishsmall food fish of Atlantic coast California pompano, Palometa simillima, palometasmaller than Florida pompano; common in West Indies Paprilus alepidotus, harvestfishbutterfish up to a foot long of Atlantic waters from Chesapeake Bay to Argentina driftfishsmall (6 inches) tropical butterfishes found worldwide driftfishlarger butterfishes of the western Atlantic from the New York area to the northern Gulf of Mexico squaretailsluggish square-tailed fish armored with tough bony scales; of deep warm waters Hyperglyphe perciformis, barrelfish, black rudderfishblackish fish of New England waters Gobiesox strumosus, skillet fish, skilletfishclingfish with typical skillet shape Atlantic tripletail, Lobotes surinamensistripletail found from Cape Cod to northern South America Lobotes pacificus, Pacific tripletailtripletail found in the Pacific Gerres cinereus, yellowfin mojarrapopular panfish from Bermuda and Gulf of Mexico to Brazil Eucinostomus gula, silver jennysilvery mojarra found along sandy shores of the western Atlantic acanthopterygian, spiny-finned fish a teleost fish with fins that are supported by sharp inflexible rays |
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