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fish family

NOUN
  1. any of various families of fish

How To Use fish family In A Sentence

  • The scabbard fish, variety of the cutlassfish, is the most highly regarded of the cutlassfish family.
  • sharks belong to the fish family
  • This perciform fish family is one of the most species-rich families of vertebrates with at least 1,300 and perhaps as many as 1,870 species.
  • The Pantodontidae or Butterfly fish family consists of a single species which is distributed in tropical West Africa.
  • We did some fishing there, and I caught a 73-pound peixe de couro, or pintado, a member of the catfish family pictured. Jungle Fever
  • The catfish family Clariidae comprises species in which the body shape ranges from fusiform to anguilliform.
  • These psychedelic leftovers from the '60s are part of the dragonet fish family and range in size from 3 to 7cm.
  • According to a press release issued by the museum, pancake batfishes are members of the anglerfish family Ogcocephalidae, a group of about 70 species of flat bottom-dwellers that often live in deep, perpetually dark waters. Signs of the Times
  • If one were to include eleotrids, as some recommend, the gobies would rival the cyprinids as the largest fish family in the world.
  • They are later harvested, but fish diversity is reduced as the fishermen's catch is dominated by mudfish, a hardy member of the catfish family that survives in dried-up river- and lakebeds.
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