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PERCIFORMES
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
One of the largest natural groups of fishes of both marine and fresh water: true perches; basses; tuna
Synonyms:
order Perciformes; order Percomorphi; Perciformes; Percomorphi
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("Perciformes" is a kind of...):
animal order (the order of animals)
Meronyms (members of "Perciformes"):
bream; sea bream (any of numerous marine percoid fishes especially (but not exclusively) of the family Sparidae)
family Sciaenidae; Sciaenidae (warm-water marine fishes including the drums and grunts and croakers and sea trout)
family Mullidae; Mullidae (goatfishes or red mullets)
Mugiloidea; suborder Mugiloidea (fishes distinguished by abdominal pelvic fins: families Mugilidae; Atherinidae; Sphyraenidae)
family Kyphosidae; Kyphosidae (sea chubs)
Ephippidae; family Ephippidae (small family comprising the spadefishes)
Chaetodontidae; family Chaetodontidae (butterfly fishes)
family Pomacentridae; Pomacentridae (damselfishes)
family Labridae; Labridae (wrasses)
family Scaridae; Scaridae (parrotfishes)
family Polynemidae; Polynemidae (threadfins)
family Opisthognathidae; Opisthognathidae (jawfishes)
family Uranoscopidae; Uranoscopidae (stargazers)
Blennioidea; suborder Blennioidea (blennies; butterfishes; gunnels)
Ammodytidae; family Ammodytidae (sand lances)
Callionymidae; family Callionymidae (dragonets)
family Gobiidae; Gobiidae (gobies)
Eleotridae; family Eleotridae (sleepers)
family Percophidae; Percophidae (percoid flatheads)
family Toxotidae; Toxotidae (archerfishes)
family Microdesmidae; Microdesmidae (worm fish)
Acanthuridae; family Acanthuridae (surgeonfishes)
family Gempylidae; Gempylidae (snake mackerels)
family Trichiuridae; Trichiuridae (cutlassfishes)
Scombroidea; suborder Scombroidea (mackerels; tunas; albacores; bonitos; swordfishes; sailfishes)
family Stromateidae; Stromateidae (butterfishes: harvest fishes; dollar fishes)
family Gobiesocidae; Gobiesocidae (clingfishes)
family Lobotidae; Lobotidae (tripletails)
family Gerreidae; family Gerridae; Gerreidae; Gerridae (mojarras)
Percoidea; suborder Percoidea (in some classifications nearly or exactly equivalent to the Perciformes which are considered a suborder)
percoid; percoid fish; percoidean (any of numerous spiny-finned fishes of the order Perciformes)
perch (any of numerous spiny-finned fishes of various families of the order Perciformes)
Anabantidae; family Anabantidae (small freshwater spiny-finned fishes of Africa and southern Asia)
family Percidae; Percidae (active freshwater fishes; true perches and pike perches)
family Trichodontidae; Trichodontidae (two species of elongate compressed scaleless large-eyed fishes that live in sand or mud)
family Ophidiidae; Ophidiidae (eellike marine fishes)
Brotulidae; family Brotulidae (chiefly deep-sea fishes related to the Ophidiidae)
Carapidae; family Carapidae (pearlfishes: related to the Brotulidae)
Centropomidae; family Centropomidae (a family of fish or the order Perciformes including robalos)
Esocidae; family Esocidae (pikes; pickerels; muskellunges)
Centrarchidae; family Centrarchidae (sunfish family)
bream; freshwater bream (any of various usually edible freshwater percoid fishes having compressed bodies and shiny scales; especially (but not exclusively) of the genus Lepomis)
family Serranidae; Serranidae (marine fishes: sea basses; sea perches; groupers; jewfish)
Embiotocidae; family Embiotocidae (viviparous percoid fishes comprising the surf fishes)
family Priacanthidae; Priacanthidae (small carnivorous percoid fishes found worldwide in tropical seas)
Apogonidae; family Apogonidae (bright-colored marine fishes that incubate eggs in the mouth)
family Malacanthidae; Malacanthidae (short-headed marine fishes; often brightly colored)
family Pomatomidae; Pomatomidae (food and game fishes related to pompanos)
family Rachycentridae; Rachycentridae (family of pelagic fishes containing solely the cobia)
Carangidae; family Carangidae (large family of narrow-bodied marine food fishes with widely forked tails; chiefly of warm seas)
Coryphaenidae; family Coryphaenidae (large active pelagic percoid fish)
Bramidae; family Bramidae (deep-bodied percoid fishes of the open seas)
Branchiostegidae; family Branchiostegidae (small family of marine fishes having covered gills)
Cichlidae; family Cichlidae (cichlids)
family Lutjanidae; Lutjanidae (snappers)
family Haemulidae; Haemulidae (grunts)
family Sparidae; Sparidae (porgies; scups)
Holonyms ("Perciformes" is a member of...):
Acanthopterygii; superorder Acanthopterygii (teleost fishes having fins with sharp bony rays)
