family Centropomidae

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Related to family Centropomidae: snook, snooker, Serranidae

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family Centropomidae - a family of fish or the order Perciformes including robalos

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

robalo - a kind of percoid fish

Centropomus, genus Centropomus - type genus of the Centropomidae: snooks

snook - large tropical American food and game fishes of coastal and brackish waters; resemble pike

Latinae - a subfamily of the family Centropomidae

genus Lates, Lates - a genus of large percoid fishes of fresh and brackish water

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Nile perch Lates niloticus (Linnuaeus 1758), is a freshwater carnivorous fish, of the order Perciformes, family Centropomidae, subfamily Latidae and genus Lates.

Transmission Electron Microscopy of the Gastrointestinal Tract of Nile Perch Lates niloticus/Uso de Microscopia Electronica de Transmision para Visualizar el Tracto Gastrointestinal de la Perca del Nilo Lates niloticus

The timing of these annual events provide additional food resources and habitat for successful recruitment which is characteristic of teleosts of the family Centropomidae (Peters et al.

Reproductive biology of common snook Centropomus undecimalis (Perciformes: Centropomidae) in two tropical habitats