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单词 rudderfish
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rudderfish


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Noun1.rudderfish - food and game fish around Bermuda and Floridarudderfish - food and game fish around Bermuda and Florida; often follow shipsBermuda chub, Kyphosus sectatrixsea chub - schooling fishes mostly of Indian and western Pacific oceans; two species in western Atlanticgenus Kyphosus, Kyphosus - type genus of the Kyphosidae
2.rudderfish - fish having the habit of following shipsrudderfish - fish having the habit of following ships; found in North American and South American coastal watersbanded rudderfish, Seriola zonatajack - any of several fast-swimming predacious fishes of tropical to warm temperate seasgenus Seriola, Seriola - a genus of Carangidae

rudderfish


rudderfish

or

sea chub,

common name for members of the family Kyphosidae, small-mouthed fishes of warm seas throughout the world. Rudderfishes commonly follow vessels (whence their name), scavenging on refuse. Best known is the Bermuda chub, averaging 3 to 4 lb (1.3–1.8 kg), common off the Florida coasts. Rudderfishes are classified in the phylum ChordataChordata
, phylum of animals having a notochord, or dorsal stiffening rod, as the chief internal skeletal support at some stage of their development. Most chordates are vertebrates (animals with backbones), but the phylum also includes some small marine invertebrate animals.
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, subphylum Vertebrata, class Actinopterygii, order Perciformes, family Kyphosidae.

rudderfish


  • noun

Synonyms for rudderfish

noun food and game fish around Bermuda and Florida

Synonyms

  • Bermuda chub
  • Kyphosus sectatrix

Related Words

  • sea chub
  • genus Kyphosus
  • Kyphosus

noun fish having the habit of following ships

Synonyms

  • banded rudderfish
  • Seriola zonata

Related Words

  • jack
  • genus Seriola
  • Seriola
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