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sciaenid fish - widely distributed family of carnivorous percoid fishes having a large air bladder used to produce sound | ||
sciaenid | ||
percoid, percoid fish, percoidean any of numerous spiny-finned fishes of the order Perciformes | ||
family sciaenidae, sciaenidae warm-water marine fishes including the drums and grunts and croakers and sea trout | ||
drumfish, drum small to medium-sized bottom-dwelling food and game fishes of shallow coastal and fresh waters that make a drumming noise | ||
mulloway, sciaena antarctica, jewfish large important food fish of Australia; almost indistinguishable from the maigre | ||
maiger, maigre, sciaena aquila large European marine food fish | ||
croaker any of several fishes that make a croaking noise | ||
whiting a food fish of the Atlantic waters of Europe resembling the cod; sometimes placed in genus Gadus |