Ephippidae

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Noun1.Ephippidae - small family comprising the spadefishes
fish family - any of various families of fish
order Perciformes, order Percomorphi, Perciformes, Percomorphi - one of the largest natural groups of fishes of both marine and fresh water: true perches; basses; tuna
Chaetodipterus, genus Chaetodipterus - a genus of Ephippidae
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Anguila; dalag (Ophiocephalus striatus Bloch); robalo; hito (Clarias magur Ham.-Buc.); martinico; kitang (Scatophagus ornatus Cuvier), different from saltwater kitang (Ephippidae); kanduli (Netuma nasuta Bleeker); bagre; iso; banak; Gobido de Manila y de Angat (Glossogobius giuris Ham.-Buc.); biang-itim; bia; buan-buan; langaray.
Fundulus heteroclitus 12 (Linnaeus, 1766) Sheepshead minnow, Cyprinodon 5 variegatus variegatus Lacepede, 1803 Family: Catostomidae Common white sucker, Calostomus 5 commersonii (Lacepede, 1803) Family: Cyprinidae Zebrafish, Danio rerio 10 (Hamilton, 1822) Order Lophiiformes Family: Lophiidae Monkfish, Lophius piscalorius 3 Linnaeus, 1758 Family: Ephippidae Atlantic spadefish, Chaetodipterus 3 faber (Broussonet, 1782) Family: Haemulidae Pigfish, Orthopristis chrysoptera 3 (Linnaeus.
Development of fishes in the mid-Atlantic Bight IV: Carangidae through Ephippidae. U.S.
(5) The Snapper-Grouper Management Complex is composed of ten species units: groupers, Epinephelidae; grunts, Haemulidae; jacks, Carangidae; porgies, Sparidae; sea basses, Serranidae\ snappers, Lutjanidae; spadefishes, Ephippidae; tilefishes, Malacanthidae; triggerfishes, Balistidae; and wrasses, Labridae.
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