sciaenid fish

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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 jewfish, mulloway, Sciaena antarctica - 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 - any of several food fishes of North American coastal waters sea trout - any of several sciaenid fishes of North American coastal waters