| Noun | 1. | family Gobiidae - gobies 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 goby, gudgeon - small spiny-finned fish of coastal or brackish waters having a large head and elongated tapering body having the ventral fins modified as a sucker genus Periophthalmus, Periophthalmus - a genus of Gobiidae |