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    PERCOMORPHI

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     I. (noun) 

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    Meaning:

    One of the largest natural groups of fishes of both marine and fresh water: true perches; basses; tunaplay

    Synonyms:

    order Perciformes; order Percomorphi; Perciformes; Percomorphi

    Classified under:

    Nouns denoting animals

    Hypernyms ("Percomorphi" is a kind of...):

    animal order (the order of animals)

    Meronyms (members of "Percomorphi"):

    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 ("Percomorphi" is a member of...):

    Acanthopterygii; superorder Acanthopterygii (teleost fishes having fins with sharp bony rays)

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