family Triglidae

Thesaurus

Noun

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family Triglidae - in some classifications restricted to the gurnards and subdivided into the subfamilies Triglinae (true sea robins) and Peristediinae (armored sea robins)Triglidaefish family - any of various families of fishScorpaenoidea, suborder Scorpaenoidea - mail-cheeked fishes: scorpionfishes; gurnardsgurnard - bottom-dwelling coastal fishes with spiny armored heads and fingerlike pectoral fins used for crawling along the sea bottomgenus Triga, Triga - type genus of the Triglidaesubfamily Triglinae, Triglinae - in some classifications considered a subfamily of Triglidae comprising searobins having ordinary scales and no barbels (true searobins)genus Prionotus, Prionotus - a genus of TriglidaePeristediinae, subfamily Peristediinae - in some classifications considered a subfamily of Triglidae comprising the armored searobinsgenus Peristedion, Peristedion - in some classifications the type genus of the subfamily Peristediinae: armored sea robins