family Malacanthidae

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family Malacanthidae - short-headed marine fishes; often brightly colored

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

genus Lopholatilus, Lopholatilus - large brightly colored food fish of deep Atlantic waters

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Family Malacanthidae. In Bigelow and Schroeder's fishes of the Gulf of Maine, 3rd ed.

Changes in size and age at maturity of the northern stock of Tilefish (Lopholatilus chamaeleonticeps) after a period of overfishing

The Indo-Pacfic genus Hoplolatilus belongs to the circumtropical family Malacanthidae and contains elongate, cigar-shaped fishes that occur over silt, sand, or rubble bottoms at depths to at least 85 m.

Hoplolatilus randalli, a new species of sand tilefish (Pisces: Malacanthidae) from the tropical western Pacific with comments on the validity of H. luteus