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Family Carangidae   Listen
Family Carangidae

noun
1.
Large family of narrow-bodied marine food fishes with widely forked tails; chiefly of warm seas.  Synonym: Carangidae.





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"Family Carangidae" Quotes from Famous Books



... in England is given to a fish of the family Maltheidae. It is also applied to the Flying Gurnard of the Atlantic and to the Californian Sting-ray. In Australia, and chiefly in New South Wales, it is applied to Psettus argenteus, Linn., family Carangidae, or Horse Mackerels. Guenther says that the "Sea Bats," which belong to the closely allied genus Platax, are called so from the extraordinary length of some portion of their dorsal and anal fins and ...
— A Dictionary of Austral English • Edward Morris
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Words linked to "Family Carangidae" :   genus Decapterus, genus Trachinotus, Selene, carangid fish, Seriola, Caranx, order Perciformes, fish family, genus Seriola, Alectis, genus Selene, order Percomorphi, Selar, Oligoplites, genus Oligoplites, scad, genus Elagatis, genus Caranx, genus Trachurus, carangid, genus Naucrates, jack, Decapterus, Perciformes, Naucrates, Elagatis, genus Alectis, Trachinotus, Percomorphi, genus Selar, Trachurus


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