#bony_fish  any fish of the class Osteichthyes
  supertype:  #fish  any of various mostly cold-blooded aquatic vertebrates usually having scales and breathing through gills
  member of:  #class_Osteichthyes
  subtype:  #crossopterygian__lobefin__lobe-finned_fish  any fish of the order Crossopterygii; most known only in fossil form
     subtype:  #coelacanth__Latimeria_chalumnae  fish thought to have been extinct since the Cretaceous Period but found in 1938 off the coast of Africa
  subtype:  #lungfish  air-breathing fish having an elongated body and fleshy paired fins; certain species construct mucus-lined mud coverings in which to survive drought
     subtype:  #ceratodus  extinct lungfish
     subtype:  #barramunda__barramundi__Neoceratodus_forsteri  large edible Australian lungfish having paddle-shaped fins
  subtype:  #teleost_fish__teleostfish__teleost__teleostan  a bony fish of the subclass Teleostei
     subtype:  #soft-finned_fish__malacopterygian  any fish of the superorder Malacopterygii
        subtype:  #order_Ostariophysi__Ostariophysi  in some classifications considered a superorder comprising the Cypriniformes and the Siluriformes
        subtype:  #cypriniform_fish__cypriniformfish  a soft-finned fish of the order Cypriniformes
           subtype:  #loach  slender freshwater fishes of Eurasia and Africa resembling catfishes
           subtype:  #cyprinid_fish__cyprinid  soft-finned mainly freshwater fishes typically having toothless jaws and cycloid scales
              subtype:  #carp  any of various freshwater fish of the family Cyprinidae
                 subtype:  #domestic_carp__Cyprinus_carpio  large Old World freshwater bottom-feeding fish introduced into Europe from Asia; inhabits ponds and sluggish streams and often raised for food; introduced into United States where it has become a pest
                    subtype:  #leather_carp__leathercarp  scaleless domestic carp
                    subtype:  #mirror_carp  domestic carp with some large large shining scales
              subtype:  #tench__Tinca_tinca  freshwater dace-like game fish of Europe and western Asia noted for ability to survive outside water
              subtype:  #dace__Leuciscus_leuciscus  small European freshwater fish with a slender bluish-green body
              subtype:  #chub__Leuciscus_cephalus  European freshwater game fish with a thick spindle-shaped body
              subtype:  #shiner  any of numerous small silvery North American cyprinid fishes especially of the genus Notropis
                 subtype:  #emerald_shiner__emeraldshiner__Notropis_atherinoides  small blunt-nosed fish of Great Lakes and Mississippi valley with a greenish luster
                 subtype:  #common_shiner__silversides__Notropis_cornutus  the common North American shiner
                 subtype:  #golden_shiner__Notemigonus_crysoleucas  shiner of eastern North America having golden glints; sometimes also called `bream'
              subtype:  #Rutilus_rutilus__roach  European freshwater food fish having a greenish back
              subtype:  #rudd__Scardinius_erythrophthalmus  European freshwater fish resembling the roach
              subtype:  #minnow__Phoxinus_phoxinus  very small European freshwater fish common in gravelly streams
              subtype:  #gudgeon__gobiogobio  small slender European freshwater fish often used as bait by anglers
              subtype:  #goldfish__Carassius_auratus  small golden or orange-red freshwater fishes of Eurasia used as pond or aquarium fishes
                 subtype:  #silverfish  a silvery variety of Carassius auratus
              subtype:  #crucian_carp__cruciancarp__Carassius_carassius__Carassius_vulgaris  European carp closely resembling wild goldfish
           subtype:  #electric_eel__Electrophorus_electric  eel-shaped freshwater fish of South America having electric organs in its body
           subtype:  #catostomid  a cypriniform fish of the family Catostomidae
              subtype:  #sucker  mostly North American freshwater fishes with a thick-lipped mouth for feeding by suction; related to carps
                 subtype:  #buffalo_fish__buffalofish__buffalofish  any of several large suckers of the Mississippi valley
                    subtype:  #black_buffalo__blackbuffalo__Ictiobus_niger  fish of the lower Mississippi
                 subtype:  #hog_sucker__hogsucker__hog_molly__hogmolly__Hypentelium_nigricans  widely distributed in warm clear shallow streams
                 subtype:  #redhorse_sucker__redhorse  North American sucker with reddish fins
           subtype:  #cyprinodont  any member of the family Cyprinodontidae
              subtype:  #killifish  small mostly marine warm-water carp-like schooling fishes; used as bait or aquarium fishes or in mosquito control
                 subtype:  #mummichog__Fundulus_heteroclitus  silver-and-black killifish of saltwater marshes along the United States Atlantic coast
                 subtype:  #striped_killifish__stripedkillifish__mayfish__fundulusmajali  black-barred fish of bays and coastal marshes of United States Atlantic and Gulf coasts
                 subtype:  #rivulus__rivulu  found in small streams of tropical America; often kept in aquariums; usually hermaphroditic
                 subtype:  #American_flagfish__flagfish__Jordanella_floridae  flagfish with a dark-blue back and whitish sides with red stripes; found in swamps and streams of Florida
              subtype:  #swordtail__helleri__Xyphophorus_helleri  freshwater fish of Central America having a long swordlike tail; popular aquarium fish
              subtype:  #guppy__rainbow_fish__rainbowfish__Lebistes_reticulatus  small freshwater fish of South America and West Indies; often kept in aquariums
           subtype:  #topminnow__poeciliid_fish__poeciliidfish__poeciliid__live-bearer  small usually brightly-colored viviparous surface-feeding fishes of fresh or brackish warm waters; often used in mosquito control
              subtype:  #mosquitofish__Gambusia_affinis  silvery topminnow with rows of black spots of tropical North America and West Indies; important in mosquito control
              subtype:  #platy__Platypoecilus_maculatus  small stocky Mexican fish; popular aquarium fish
              subtype:  #mollie__molly  popular aquarium fish
           subtype:  #characin_fish__characin__characid  any freshwater fish of the family Characinidae
              subtype:  #tetra  brightly colored tropical freshwater fishes
              subtype:  #cardinal_tetra__Paracheirodon_axelrodi  small bright red and blue aquarium fish from streams in Brazil and Columbia
              subtype:  #piranha__pirana__caribe  small voraciously carnivorous freshwater fishes of South America that attack and destroy living animals
        subtype:  #siluriform_fish__catfish  any of numerous mostly freshwater bottom-living fishes of Eurasia and North America with barbels like whiskers around the mouth
           subtype:  #silurid_fish__siluridfish__silurid  Old World freshwater catfishes having naked skin and a long anal fin more or less merged with the eellike caudal fin
              subtype:  #European_catfish__sheatfish__Silurus_glanis  large elongated catfish of central and eastern Europe
              subtype:  #electric_catfish__Malopterurus_electricus  freshwater catfish of the Nile and tropical central Africa having an electric organ
           subtype:  #bullhead  any of several common freshwater catfishes of the United States
              subtype:  #horned_pout__hornpout__pout__Ameiurus_Melas  catfish common in eastern United States
              subtype:  #brown_bullhead__brownbullhead  freshwater catfish of eastern United States
           subtype:  #channel_catfish__channel_cat__Ictalurus_punctatus  freshwater food fish common throughout central United States
              subtype:  #blue_catfish__blue_cat__blue_channel_catfish__blue_channel_cat  a large catfish of the Mississippi valley
           subtype:  #flathead_catfish__mudcat__goujon__shovelnose_catfish__spoonbill_catfish__spoonbillcatfish__Pylodictus_olivaris  large catfish of central United States having a flattened head and projecting jaw
           subtype:  #armored_catfish  South American catfish having the body covered with bony plates
           subtype:  #sea_catfish  any of numerous marine fishes most of which are mouthbreeders; not used for food
              subtype:  #crucifix_fish  catfish of the Caribbean area
        subtype:  #gadoid_fish__gadoid  a soft-finned fish of the family Gadidae
           subtype:  #cod__codfish  major food fish of arctic and cold-temperate waters
              subtype:  #codling  young codfish
              subtype:  #Atlantic_cod__Gadus_morhua  one of the world's most important commercial fishes
              subtype:  #Pacific_cod__Alaska_cod__Gadus_macrocephalus  closely related to Atlantic cod
              subtype:  #burbot__eelpout__ling__cusk__Lota_lota  elongate freshwater cod of northern Europe and Asia and North America having barbels around its mouth
              subtype:  #scrod__schrod  young Atlantic cod or haddock especially one split and boned for cooking
           subtype:  #Merlangus_merlangus__whiting__Gadus_merlangus  a food fish of European Atlantic waters resembling the cod; sometimes placed in genus Gadus
           subtype:  #Melanogrammus_aeglefinus__haddock  important food fish on both sides of the Atlantic; related to cod but usually smaller
           subtype:  #Pollachius_pollachius__pollack  important food and game fish of northern seas especially North Atlantic; related to cod
           subtype:  #hake  any of several marine food fishes related to cod
              subtype:  #silver_hake__Merluccius_bilinearis__whiting  found off Atlantic coast of North America
              subtype:  #ling  American hakes
           subtype:  #Molva_molva__ling  elongated marine food fish of Greenland and northern Europe; often salted and dried
           subtype:  #torsk__Brosme_brosme  large edible marine fish of northern coastal waters; related to cod
           subtype:  #rattail__grenadier__rattail_fish__rattailfish  deep-sea fish with a large head and body and long tapering tail
        subtype:  #eel  voracious snakelike marine or freshwater fishes with smooth slimy usually scaleless skin and having a continuous vertical fin but no ventral fins
           subtype:  #elver  young eel
           subtype:  #common_eel__freshwater_eel  eels that live in fresh water as adults but return to sea to spawn; found in Europe and America; marketed both fresh and smoked
           subtype:  #Anguilla_sucklandii__tuna  New Zealand eel
           subtype:  #moray_eel__morayeel__moray  family of brightly colored voracious eels of warm coastal waters; generally nonaggressive to humans but larger species are dangerous if provoked
           subtype:  #conger_eel__conger  large somber-colored scaleless marine eel found in temperate and tropical coastal waters; some used for food
        subtype:  #beaked_salmon__sandfish__Gonorhynchus_gonorhynchus  fish of sandy areas of western Pacific and Indian oceans having an angular snout for burrowing into sand
        subtype:  #clupeid_fish__clupeidfish__clupeid  any of numerous soft-finned schooling food fishes of shallow waters of northern seas
           subtype:  #shad  herring-like food fishes that migrate from the sea to freshwater to spawn
              subtype:  #common_American_shad__Alosa_sapidissima  shad of Atlantic coast of North America; naturalized to Pacific coast
              subtype:  #river_shad__rivershad__alosachrysoclori  shad that spawns in streams of the Mississippi drainage; very similar to Alosa sapidissima
              subtype:  #allice_shad__allis_shad__allisshad__allice__allis__alli__Alosa_alosa  European shad
           subtype:  #Alosa_pseudoharengus__alewife__Pomolobus_pseudoharengus  shad-like food fish that runs rivers to spawn; often salted or smoked; sometimes placed in genus Pomolobus
           subtype:  #menhaden__Brevoortia_tyrannis  shad-like North American marine fishes used for fish meal and oil and fertilizer
           subtype:  #Clupea_harangus__herring  commercially important food fish of northern waters of both Atlantic and Pacific
              subtype:  #Atlantic_herring__Clupea_harengus_harengus  important food fish; found in enormous shoals in North Atlantic
              subtype:  #Pacific_herring__Clupea_harengus_pallasii  important food fish of the north Pacific
           subtype:  #sardine  any of various small edible herring or related food fishes frequently canned
              subtype:  #sild  any of various young herrings (other than brislings) canned as sardines in Norway
              subtype:  #Clupea_sprattus__brisling__sprat  small herring processed like a sardine
           subtype:  #Sardina_pilchardus__pilchard__sardine  small fishes found in great schools along coasts of Europe; smaller and rounder than herring
              subtype:  #Pacific_sardine__Sardinops_caerulea  small pilchards common off the pacific coast of North America
        subtype:  #anchovy  small herring-like plankton-feeding fishes often canned whole or as paste; abundant in tropical waters worldwide
           subtype:  #mediterranean_anchovy__mediterraneananchovy__Engraulis_encrasicholus  esteemed for its flavor; usually preserved or used for sauces and relishes
        subtype:  #salmonid  soft-finned fishes of cold and temperate waters
           subtype:  #salmon  any of various large food and game fishes of northern waters; usually migrate from salt to fresh water to spawn
              subtype:  #blackfish  female salmon that has recently spawned
              subtype:  #redfish  male salmon that has recently spawned
              subtype:  #Salmo_salar__Atlantic_salmon  found in northern coastal Atlantic waters or tributaries; adults do not die after spawning
                 subtype:  #landlocked_salmon__lake_salmon  Atlantic salmon confined to lakes of New England and southeastern Canada
              subtype:  #blueback_salmon__sockeye__sockeyesalmon__redsalmon__Onchorynchus_nerka  small salmon with red flesh; found in rivers and tributaries of the north Pacific and valued as food; adults die after spawning
              subtype:  #quinnat_salmon__quinnatsalmon__chinook__chinooksalmon__king_salmon__Onchorynchus_tshawtscha  large Pacific salmon valued as food; adults die after spawning
              subtype:  #blue_jack__coho__cohoe__coho_salmon__silver_salmon__Onchorynchus_kisutch  small salmon of north Pacific coasts and the Great Lakes
           subtype:  #trout  any of various game and food fishes of cool fresh waters mostly smaller than typical salmons
              subtype:  #brown_trout__browntrout__salmon_trout__Salmo_trutta  speckled trout of European rivers; introduced in North America
                 subtype:  #sea_trout__seatrout  silvery marine variety of brown trout that migrates to fresh water to spawn
              subtype:  #Salmo_gairdneri__rainbow_trout__rainbowtrout  found in Pacific coastal waters and streams from lower California to Alaska
              subtype:  #Salvelinus_namaycush__lake_trout__salmon_trout  large fork-tailed trout of lakes of Canada and the northern United States
              subtype:  #Salvelinus_fontinalis__brook_trout__speckled_trout  North American freshwater trout; introduced in Europe
           subtype:  #char  any of several small-scaled trout
              subtype:  #Arctic_char__Salvelinus_alpinus  small trout of northern waters; landlocked populations in Quebec and northern New England
        subtype:  #whitefish  silvery herring-like freshwater food fish of cold lakes of the northern hemisphere
           subtype:  #lake_whitefish__Coregonus_clupeaformis  found in Great Lakes and north to Alaska
           subtype:  #Coregonus_artedi__cisco__lake_herring  important food fish of cold deep lakes of North America
           subtype:  #round_whitefish__Menominee_whitefish__Prosopium_cylindraceum  bronze-backed whitefish of northern North America and Siberia
           subtype:  #Rocky_Mountain_whitefish__Prosopium_williamsonii  whitefish of the western United States and Canada
        subtype:  #smelt  small trout-like silvery marine or freshwater food fishes of cold northern waters
           subtype:  #rainbow_smelt__rainbowsmelt__Osmerus_mordax  important marine and landlocked food fish of eastern North America and Alaska
           subtype:  #Osmerus_eperlanus__sparling__European_smelt  the common smelt of Europe
           subtype:  #capelin__capelan__caplin  very small northern fish; forage for sea birds and marine mammals and other fishes
        subtype:  #tarpon__Tarpon_atlanticus  large silvery game fish of warm Atlantic coastal waters especially off Florida
           subtype:  #ladyfish__tenpounder__Elops_saurus  game fish resembling the tarpon but smaller
        subtype:  #bonefish__Albula_vulpes  slender silvery marine fish found in tropical mud flats and mangrove lagoons
        subtype:  #argentine  any of various small silver-scaled salmon-like marine fishes
        subtype:  #lanternfish  small fish having rows of luminous organs along each side; some surface at night
        subtype:  #lizardfish__snakefish  tropical fishes with large mouths in lizard-like heads; found worldwide
        subtype:  #greeneye  bottom-livers having large eyes with metallic green luster
        subtype:  #lancetfish__lancet_fish__wolffish  large elongate scaleless oceanic fishes with sharp teeth and a long sail-like dorsal fin
        subtype:  #handsaw_fish__handsawfish  a soft-finned fish of the genus Alepisaurus
        subtype:  #opah__moonfish__Lampris_regius  large elliptical brightly colored deep-sea fish of Atlantic and Pacific and Mediterranean
        subtype:  #New_World_opah__Lampris_guttatus  from Nova Scotia to West Indies and Gulf of Mexico
        subtype:  #ribbonfish  marine fish having a long compressed ribbon-like body
           subtype:  #dealfish__Trachipterus_arcticus  deep-sea ribbonfish
        subtype:  #oarfish__king_of_the_herring__ribbonfish__Regalecus_glesne  thin deep-water tropical fish 20 to 30 feet long having a red dorsal fin
     subtype:  #cornetfish  slender tropical fish with a long tubular snout and bony plates instead of scales
     subtype:  #pipefish__needlefish  fish with long tubular snout and slim body covered with bony plates
        subtype:  #dwarf_pipefish__dwarfpipefish__Syngnathus_hildebrandi  small (4 inches) fish found off Florida gulf coast
        subtype:  #deepwater_pipefish__deepwaterpipefish__Cosmocampus_profundus  8 inches; from eastern Florida to western Caribbean
        subtype:  #seahorse__sea_horse__seahorse  small fish with horselike heads bent sharply downward and curled tails; swim in upright position
     subtype:  #snipefish__bellows_fish__bellowsfish  small bottom-dwelling fish of warm seas having a compressed body and a long snout with a toothless mouth
     subtype:  #shrimpfish  slender tropical shallow-water East Indian fish covered with transparent plates
     subtype:  #trumpetfish__aulostomusmaculatu  tropical Atlantic fish with a long snout; swims snout down
     subtype:  #needlefish__gar__billfish  elongate European surface-dwelling predacious fishes with long toothed jaws; abundant in coastal waters
        subtype:  #timucu  found in warm waters of western Atlantic
     subtype:  #flying_fish  tropical marine fishes having enlarged winglike fins used for brief gliding flight
        subtype:  #monoplane_flying_fish__two-wing_flying_fish  having only pectoral fins enlarged
        subtype:  #biplane_flying_fish__four-wing_flying_fish  having both pectoral and pelvic fins enlarged
     subtype:  #halfbeak  tropical and subtropical marine and freshwater fishes having an elongated body and long protruding lower jaw
     subtype:  #saury__billfish__Scomberesox_saurus  slender long-beaked fish of temperate Atlantic waters
     subtype:  #spiny-finned_fish__acanthopterygian  a teleost fish with fins that are supported by sharp inflexible rays
        subtype:  #squirrelfish  very small brightly colored (especially red) nocturnal fishes of shallow waters of tropical reefs; they make sounds like a squirrel's bark
           subtype:  #reef_squirrelfish__Holocentrus_coruscus  on reefs from Bermuda and Florida to northern South America
           subtype:  #deepwater_squirrelfish__deepwatersquirrelfish__Holocentrus_bullisi  a squirrelfish found from South Carolina to Bermuda and Gulf of Mexico
           subtype:  #Holocentrus_ascensionis  bright red fish of West Indies and Bermuda
           subtype:  #soldierfish  the larger squirrelfishes
        subtype:  #anomalops__anomalop__flashlight_fish  fish having a luminous organ beneath eye; of warm waters of the western Pacific and Puerto Rico
        subtype:  #flashlight_fish__Photoblepharon_palpebratus  fish of deep dark waters having a light organ below each eye
        subtype:  #dory  marine fishes widely distributed in mid-waters and deep slope waters
           subtype:  #John_dory__Zeus_faber  European dory
        subtype:  #Capros_aper__boarfish  fish with a projecting snout
        subtype:  #boarfish  fish with large eyes and long snouts
        subtype:  #stickleback__prickleback  small (2-4 inches) pugnacious mostly scaleless spiny-backed fishes of northern fresh and littoral waters having elaborate courtship; subjects of much research
           subtype:  #three-spined_stickleback__Gasterosteus_aculeatus  of rivers and coastal regions
           subtype:  #ten-spined_stickleback__Gasterosteus_pungitius  confined to rivers
        subtype:  #batfish  bottom-dweller of warm western Atlantic coastal waters having a flattened scaleless body that crawls about on fleshy pectoral and pelvic fins
        subtype:  #goosefish__angler__anglerfish__angler_fish__monkfish__lotte__allmouth__Lophius_Americanus  fishes having large mouths with a wormlike filament attached for luring prey
        subtype:  #toadfish__Opsanus_tau  bottom-dwelling fish having scaleless slimy skin and a broad thick head with a wide mouth
           subtype:  #oyster_fish__oysterfish  a variety of toadfish
        subtype:  #frogfish  fish having a frog-like mouth with a lure on the snout
        subtype:  #sargassum_fish__sargassumfish  small fantastically formed and colored fishes found among masses of sargassum
        subtype:  #percoid_fish__percoidfish__percoid__percoidean  any of numerous spiny-finned fishes of the order Perciformes
           subtype:  #perch.percoid_fish  any of numerous spiny-finned fishes of various families of the order Perciformes
           subtype:  #perch_flesh__perch  spiny-finned freshwater food and game fishes
              subtype:  #yellow_perch__Perca_flavescens  North American perch
              subtype:  #European_perch__Perca_fluviatilis  a perch native to Europe
              subtype:  #pikeperch__pike_perch  any of several pike-like fishes of the perch family
                 subtype:  #walleyed_pike__walleye__jack_salmon__Stizostedion_vitreum  pike-like freshwater perches
                    subtype:  #blue_pike__blue_pickerel__blue_pikeperch__blue_walleye__Strizostedion_vitreum_glaucum  variety inhabiting the Great Lakes
              subtype:  #snail_darter__snaildarter__Percina_tanasi  3-inch snail-eating perch of the Tennessee River
           subtype:  #sandfish  either of two small silvery scaleless fishes of the north Pacific that burrow into sand
           subtype:  #cusk-eel  elongate compressed somewhat eel-shaped fishes
           subtype:  #brotula  deep-sea fishes
           subtype:  #pearlfish  found living within the alimentary canals of e.g. sea cucumbers or between the shells of pearl oysters in or near shallow seagrass beds
           subtype:  #robolo  a kind of percoid fish
              subtype:  #snook  large tropical American food and game fishes of coastal and brackish waters; resemble pike
           subtype:  #pike  any of several elongate long-snouted freshwater game and food fishes widely distributed in cooler parts of the northern hemisphere
              subtype:  #northern_pike__Esox_lucius  voracious piscivorous pike of waters of northern hemisphere
              subtype:  #Esox_masquinongy__muskellunge  large (60 to 80 pounds) sport fish of North America
              subtype:  #pickerel  any of several North American species of small pike
                 subtype:  #chain_pickerel__chainpickerel__chain_pike__chainpike__Esox_niger  common in quiet waters of eastern United States
                 subtype:  #redfin_pickerel__barred_pickerel__Esox_americanus  small but gamy pickerel of Atlantic coastal states
           subtype:  #centrarchid__sunfish  small carnivorous freshwater percoid fishes of North America usually having a laterally compressed body and metallic luster: crappies; black bass; bluegills; pumpkinseed
              subtype:  #crappie  small sunfishes of central United States rivers
                 subtype:  #black_crappie__blackcrappie__Pomoxis_nigromaculatus  a crappie that is black
                 subtype:  #white_crappie__whitecrappie__Pomoxis_annularis  a crappie that is white
              subtype:  #freshwater_bream__bream  any of various usually edible freshwater percoid fishes having compressed bodies and shiny scales; especially (but not exclusively) of the genus Lepomis
                 subtype:  #European_bream__Abramis_brama  European freshwater fish having a flattened body and silvery scales; of little value as food
                 subtype:  #bluegill__Lepomis_macrochirus  important edible sunfish of eastern and central United States
                 subtype:  #spotted_sunfish__spottedsunfish__stumpknocker__Lepomis_punctatus  inhabits streams from South Carolina to Florida; esteemed panfish
              subtype:  #pumpkinseed__Lepomis_gibbosus  small brilliantly colored North American sunfish
              subtype:  #rock_bass__rock_sunfish__Ambloplites_rupestris  game and food fish of upper Mississippi and Great Lakes
              subtype:  #black_bass  widely distributed and highly prized American freshwater game fishes (sunfish family)
                 subtype:  #Kentucky_black_bass__spotted_black_bass__Micropterus_pseudoplites  a variety of black bass
                 subtype:  #smallmouth_black_bass__smallmouth__smallmouth_bass__smallmouthed_bass__smallmouthed_black_bass__Micropterus_dolomieu  a variety of black bass; the angle of the jaw falls below the eye
                 subtype:  #largemouth_black_bass__largemouth__largemouth_bass__largemouthed_bass__largemouthed_black_bass__Micropterus_salmoides  a large black bass; the angle of the jaw falls behind the eye
           subtype:  #bass.percoid_fish__bas  nontechnical name for any of numerous edible marine and freshwater spiny-finned fishes
              subtype:  #freshwater_bass  North American food and game fish
           subtype:  #serranid_fish__serranid  marine food sport fishes mainly of warm coastal waters
              subtype:  #white_perch__whiteperch__silver_perch__Morone_americana  small silvery food and game fish of eastern United States streams
              subtype:  #yellow_bass__Morone_interrupta  North American freshwater bass resembling the larger marine striped bass
              subtype:  #sea_bass  any of various food and sport fishes of the United States Atlantic coast having an elongated body and long spiny dorsal fin
                 subtype:  #blackmouth_bass__Synagrops_bellus  small marine fish with black mouth and gill cavity
                 subtype:  #rock_sea_bass__rock_bass__Centropristis_philadelphica  a kind of sea bass
                 subtype:  #black_sea_bass__black_bass__Centropistes_striata  bluish black-striped sea bass of the Atlantic coast of the United States
                 subtype:  #Roccus_saxatilis__striped_bass__striper__rockfish  marine food and game fish with dark longitudinal stripes; migrates upriver to spawn; sometimes placed in the genus Morone
                 subtype:  #stone_bass__wreckfish__Polyprion_americanus  brown fish of the Atlantic and Mediterranean found around rocks and shipwrecks
                 subtype:  #belted_sandfish__Serranus_subligarius  found in warm shallow waters of western Atlantic
                 subtype:  #grouper  usually solitary bottom sea basses of warm seas
                    subtype:  #Epinephelus_fulvus__coney  black-spotted usually dusky-colored fish with reddish fins
                    subtype:  #hind.grouper  any of several mostly spotted fishes that resemble groupers
                       subtype:  #rock_hind__Epinephelus_adscensionis  found around rocky coasts or on reefs
                    subtype:  #creole-fish__Paranthias_furcifer  deep-sea fish of tropical Atlantic
                    subtype:  #jewfish__mycteropercabonaci  large dark grouper with a thick head and rough scales
              subtype:  #soapfish  fishes with slimy mucus-covered skin; found in warm American Atlantic coastal waters
           subtype:  #surfperch__surffish__surf_fish  small to medium-sized shallow-water fishes of the North American Pacific coast
              subtype:  #rainbow_seaperch__rainbowseaperch__rainbow_perch__rainbowperch__Hipsurus_caryi  Pacific coast fish
           subtype:  #bigeye  red fishes of American coastal tropical waters having very large eyes and rough scales
           subtype:  #catalufa__Priacanthus_arenatus  brightly colored carnivorous fish of western Atlantic and West Indies waters
           subtype:  #cardinalfish  small red fishes of coral reefs and inshore tropical waters
              subtype:  #flamefish__Apogon_maculatus  found in tropical Atlantic coastal waters
              subtype:  #conchfish__astropogonstellatu  found in West Indies; lives in mantle cavity of a living conch
           subtype:  #tilefish__Lopholatilus_chamaeleonticeps  yellow-spotted violet food fish of warm deep waters
           subtype:  #Pomatomus_saltatrix__bluefish  bluish warm-water marine food and game fish that follow schools of small fishes into shallow waters
           subtype:  #cobia__Rachycentron_canadum__sergeant_fish  large dark-striped tropical food and game fish related to remoras; found worldwide in coastal to open waters
           subtype:  #carangid_fish__carangid  a percoid fish of the family Carangidae
              subtype:  #jack  any of several fast-swimming predacious fishes of tropical to warm-temperate seas
                 subtype:  #crevalle_jack__jack_crevalle__Caranx_hippos  fish of western Atlantic and Gulf of Mexico
                 subtype:  #Caranx_bartholomaei__yellow_jack  fish of western Atlantic and Gulf of Mexico
                 subtype:  #blue_runner__runner__Caranx_crysos  fish of western Atlantic: Cape Cod to Brazil
                 subtype:  #rainbow_runner__rainbowrunner__Elagatis_bipinnulata  streamlined cigar-shaped jack; good game fish
                 subtype:  #leatherjack__leatherjacket  any of several New World tropical fishes having tiny embedded scales
                 subtype:  #threadfish__Alectis_ciliaris  fish having greatly elongated front rays on dorsal and anal fins
                 subtype:  #amberjack__amberfish  any of several amber to coppery fork-tailed warm-water carangid fishes
                 subtype:  #yellowtail__Seriola_dorsalis  game fish of S California and Mexico having a yellow tail fin
                 subtype:  #banded_rudderfish__rudderfish__Seriola_zonata  fish having the habit of following ships; found in North and South American coastal waters
                 subtype:  #Seriola_grandis__kingfish  large game fish of Australia and New Zealand
              subtype:  #Atlantic_moonfish__moonfish__horsefish__horsehead__dollarfish__Selene_setapinnis  any of several silvery marine fishes with very flat bodies
                 subtype:  #lookdown_fish__lookdown__Selene_vomer  similar to moonfish but with eyes high on the truncated forehead
              subtype:  #pompano  any of several deep-bodied food fishes of western Atlantic and Gulf of Mexico
                 subtype:  #Florida_pompano__Trachinotus_carolinus  found in coastal waters New England to Brazil except clear waters of West Indies
                 subtype:  #Trachinotus_falcatus__permit  large game fish; found in waters of the West Indies
              subtype:  #pilotfish__Naucrates_ductor  small pelagic fish often accompanying sharks or mantas
              subtype:  #scad  any of a number of fishes of the family Carangidae
                 subtype:  #jack_mackerel__horse_mackerel__horsemackerel__Spanish_mackerel__saurel__Trachurus_symmetricus  a California food fish
                 subtype:  #saurel__horse_mackerel__horsemackerel__Trachurus_trachurus  large elongated compressed food fish of European Atlantic waters
                 subtype:  #bigeye_scad__big-eyed_scad__goggle-eye__Selar_crumenophthalmus  of Atlantic coastal waters; commonly used for bait
                 subtype:  #mackerel_scad__mackerel_shad__Decapterus_macarellus  small silvery fish; Nova Scotia to Brazil
                 subtype:  #round_scad__roundscad__cigarfish__quiaquia__Decapterus_punctatus  small fusiform fish of western Atlantic
           subtype:  #mahimahi__dolphinfish__dolphin  large slender food and game fish widely distributed in warm seas (especially around Hawaii)
              subtype:  #Coryphaena_hippurus  the more common dolphinfish valued as food; about six feet long
              subtype:  #Coryphaena_equisetis  a kind of dolphinfish
           subtype:  #blanquillo__tilefish  important marine food fishes
           subtype:  #cichlid_fish__cichlidfish__cichlid  freshwater fishes of tropical America and Africa and Asia similar to American sunfishes; some are food fishes; many small ones are popular in aquariums
              subtype:  #bolti__Tilapia_nilotica  important food fish of the Nile and other rivers of Africa and Asia Minor
           subtype:  #snapper  any of several large sharp-toothed marine food and sport fishes of the family Lutjanidae of mainly tropical coastal waters
              subtype:  #Lutjanus_blackfordi__red_snapper  esteemed food fish with pinkish red head and body; common in American Atlantic coastal waters and Gulf of Mexico
              subtype:  #gray_snapper__mangrove_snapper__Lutjanus_griseus  found in shallow waters off the coast of Florida
              subtype:  #mutton_snapper__muttonfish__Lutjanus_analis  similar to and often marketed as "red snapper"
              subtype:  #Lutjanus_apodus__schoolmaster  food fish of warm Caribbean and Atlantic waters
              subtype:  #yellowtail_snapper__yellowtail__Ocyurus_chrysurus  superior food fish of the tropical Atlantic and Caribbean with broad yellow stripe along the sides and on the tail
           subtype:  #grunt  medium-sized tropical marine food fishes that utter a grunting sound when caught
              subtype:  #margate__Haemulon_album  red-mouthed grunt found from Florida to Brazil
              subtype:  #Spanish_grunt__Haemulon_macrostomum  a kind of grunt
              subtype:  #tomtate__Haemulon_aurolineatum  found off the West Indies and Florida
              subtype:  #cottonwick__Haemulon_malanurum  of warm Atlantic waters
              subtype:  #sailor's-choice__sailors_choice__sailorschoice__Haemulon_parra  found from Florida to Brazil and Gulf of Mexico
              subtype:  #porkfish__Anisotremus_virginicus  black and gold grunt found from Bermuda to Caribbean to Brazil
              subtype:  #black_margate__blackmargate__pompon__Anisotremus_surinamensis  dusky gray food fish found from Louisiana and Florida southward
              subtype:  #pigfish__hogfish__Orthopristis_chrysopterus  found from Long Island southward
           subtype:  #sparid_fish__sparid  spiny-finned food fishes of warm waters having well-developed teeth
              subtype:  #sheepshead__Archosargus_probatocephalus  large (up to 20 lbs) food fish of the eastern coast of the United States and Mexico
              subtype:  #pinfish__sailor's-choice__squirrelfish__Lagodon_rhomboides  similar to sea bream; small spiny-finned fish found in bays along the southeastern coast of the United States
              subtype:  #Chrysophrys_auratus__snapper  Australian food fish having a pinkish body with blue spots
           subtype:  #sea_bream__seabream__bream  any of numerous marine percoid fishes especially (but not exclusively) of the family Sparidae
              subtype:  #pomfret__Brama_raii  deep-bodied sooty-black pelagic spiny-finned fish of North Atlantic and North Pacific; valued for food
              subtype:  #porgy  important deep-bodied food and sport fish of warm and tropical coastal waters; found worldwide
                 subtype:  #red_porgy__redporgy__Pagrus_pagrus  food fish of the Mediterranean and Atlantic coasts of Europe and America
                 subtype:  #sheepshead_porgy__Calamus_penna  from Florida and Bahamas to Brazil
                 subtype:  #northern_scup__scup__northern_porgy__Stenotomus_chrysops  found in Atlantic coastal waters of North America from South Carolina to Maine; esteemed as a panfish
                 subtype:  #southern_scup__scup__southern_porgy__Stenotomus_aculeatus  porgy of southern Atlantic coastal waters of North America
              subtype:  #European_sea_bream__Pagellus_centrodontus  food fish of European coastal waters
              subtype:  #Atlantic_sea_bream__Archosargus_rhomboidalis  sea bream of warm Atlantic waters
              subtype:  #black_bream__blackbream__Chrysophrys_australis  important dark-colored edible food and game fish of Australia
           subtype:  #sciaenid_fish__sciaenid  widely distributed family of carnivorous percoid fishes having a large air bladder used to produce sound
              subtype:  #drumfish__drum  small to medium-sized bottom-dwelling food and game fishes of shallow coastal and fresh waters that make a drumming noise
                 subtype:  #striped_drum__stripeddrum__Equetus_pulcher  a kind of drumfish
                 subtype:  #jackknife-fish__jackknifefish__Equetus_lanceolatus  black-and-white drumfish with an erect elongated dorsal fin
                 subtype:  #silver_perch__mademoiselle__Bairdiella_chrysoura  small silvery drumfish often mistaken for white perch; found along coasts of United States from New York to Mexico
                 subtype:  #red_drum__reddrum__channel_bass__redfish__Sciaenops_ocellatus  large edible fish found off coast of United States from Massachusetts to Mexico
              subtype:  #mulloway__jewfish__sciaenaantarctica  large important food fish of Australia; almost indistinguishable from the maigre
              subtype:  #maigre__maiger__Sciaena_aquila  large European marine food fish
              subtype:  #croaker  any of several fishes that make a croaking noise
                 subtype:  #Atlantic_croaker__Micropogonias_undulatus  silvery-bodied with dark markings and tiny barbels
                 subtype:  #yellowfin_croaker__yellowfincroaker__surffish__surf_fish__Umbrina_roncador  fish of North American Pacific coast
                 subtype:  #chenfish__white_croaker__whitecroaker__kingfish__Genyonemus_lineatus  small silvery marine food fish found off California
                 subtype:  #white_croaker__whitecroaker__queenfish__Seriphus_politus  silvery and bluish drumfish of shallow California coastal waters
              subtype:  #whiting  any of several food fishes of North American coastal waters
                 subtype:  #kingfish  any of several food and game fishes of the drum family indigenous to warm Atlantic waters of the North American coast
                 subtype:  #king_whiting__Menticirrhus_americanus  whiting of the southeastern coast of North America
                 subtype:  #northern_whiting__Menticirrhus_saxatilis  whiting of the east coast of United States; closely resembles king whiting
                 subtype:  #corbina__menticirrhusundulatu  bluish-gray whiting of California coast
                 subtype:  #silver_whiting__Menticirrhus_littoralis  a dull silvery whiting of southern Atlantic and Gulf coasts of the United States
              subtype:  #sea_trout.sciaenid_fish__seatrout  any of several sciaenid fishes of North American coastal waters
                 subtype:  #Cynoscion_regalis__weakfish  food and game fish of North American coastal waters with a mouth from which hooks easily tear out
                 subtype:  #spotted_weakfish__spottedweakfish__spotted_sea_trout__spottedseatrout__spotted_squeateague__spottedsqueateague__Cynoscion_nebulosus  weakfish of southern Atlantic and Gulf coasts of United States
           subtype:  #mullet  bottom-dwelling marine warm-water fishes with two barbels on the chin
              subtype:  #goatfish__red_mullet__redmullet__surmullet__Mullus_surmuletus  brightly colored tropical fishes with chin barbels
                 subtype:  #red_goatfish__redgoatfish__mullusauratu  body bright scarlet with 2 yellow to reddish strips on side
                 subtype:  #yellow_goatfish__Mulloidichthys_martinicus  schooling goatfish; grayish with yellow stripe
           subtype:  #gray_mullet__mullet  freshwater or coastal food fishes a spindle-shaped body; found worldwide
              subtype:  #striped_mullet__stripedmullet__Mugil_cephalus  most important commercial mullet in eastern United States
              subtype:  #white_mullet__whitemullet__mugilcurema  silvery mullet of Atlantic and Pacific coasts
              subtype:  #Mugil_liza__liza  similar to the striped mullet and takes its place in the Caribbean region
           subtype:  #sea_chub__seachub  schooling fishes mostly of Indian and western Pacific oceans; two species in western Atlantic
              subtype:  #Bermuda_chub__rudderfish__Kyphosus_sectatrix  food and game fish around Bermuda and Florida; often follow ships
           subtype:  #spadefish__angelfish__Chaetodipterus_faber  deep-bodied disk-shaped food fish of warmer western Atlantic coastal waters
           subtype:  #butterfly_fish__butterflyfish  small usually brilliantly colored tropical marine fishes having narrow deep bodies with large broad fins; found worldwide
              subtype:  #chaetodon  any fish of the genus Chaetodon
              subtype:  #angelfish  a butterfly fish of the genus Pomacanthus
              subtype:  #rock_beauty__Holocanthus_tricolor  gold and black butterflyfish found from West Indies to Brazil
           subtype:  #damselfish__demoiselle  small brilliantly colored tropical marine fishes of coral reefs
              subtype:  #beaugregory__Pomacentrus_leucostictus  blue-and-yellow damselfish of Bermuda Florida and West Indies
              subtype:  #anemone_fish__anemonefish  live associated with sea anemones
                 subtype:  #clown_anemone_fish__clownanemonefish__Amphiprion_percula  an anemone fish of the genus Amphiprion
              subtype:  #Abudefduf_saxatilis__sergeant_major  large blue-gray black-striped damselfish; nearly worldwide
           subtype:  #wrasse  chiefly tropical marine fishes with fleshy lips and powerful teeth; usually brightly colored
              subtype:  #giant_pigfish__giantpigfish__pigfish__Achoerodus_gouldii  found around the Great Barrier Reef
              subtype:  #hogfish__hog_snapper__hogsnapper__Lachnolaimus_maximus  large wrasse of western Atlantic; head of male resembles a pig's snout
              subtype:  #slippery_dick__Halicoeres_bivittatus  small wrasse of tropical Atlantic
              subtype:  #puddingwife__Halicoeres_radiatus  bluish and bronze wrasse; found from Florida keys to Brazil
              subtype:  #bluehead__Thalassoma_bifasciatum  small Atlantic wrasse the male of which has a brilliant blue head
              subtype:  #razorfish  any of several small wrasses with compressed sharp-edged heads of the West Indies and Mediterranean
                 subtype:  #pearly_razorfish__Hemipteronatus_novacula  a kind of razorfish
              subtype:  #tautog__blackfish__Tautoga_onitis  large dark-colored food fish of the Atlantic coast of North America
              subtype:  #cunner__bergall__Tautogolabrus_adspersus  common in north Atlantic coastal waters of the United States
           subtype:  #parrotfish__pollyfish  gaudy tropical fishes with parrotlike beaks formed by fusion of teeth
           subtype:  #threadfin  mullet-like tropical marine fishes having pectoral fins with long threadlike rays
              subtype:  #barbu__polydactylusvirginicu  found along western Atlantic coast
           subtype:  #jawfish  small large-mouthed tropical marine fishes common along sandy bottoms; males brood egg balls in their mouths; popular aquarium fishes
           subtype:  #stargazer  heavy-bodied marine bottom-lurkers with eyes on flattened top of the head
           subtype:  #sand_stargazer  small pallid fishes of shoal tropical waters of North and South America having eyes on stalks atop head; they burrow in sand to await prey
           subtype:  #blennioid_fish__blennioidfish__blennioid  elongated mostly scaleless marine fishes with large pectoral fins and reduced pelvic fins
              subtype:  #combtooth_blenny__combtoothblenny__blenny  small usually scaleless fishes with comb-like teeth living about rocky shores; territorial and hole-dwelling
                 subtype:  #shanny__Blennius_pholis  European scaleless blenny
                 subtype:  #Molly_Miller__Scartella_cristata  inhabits both coasts of tropical Atlantic
              subtype:  #clinid_fish__clinid  mostly small blennioid fishes of coral reefs and seagrass beds
              subtype:  #pikeblenny  tropical American fishes; males are aggressively defensive of their territory
                 subtype:  #bluethroat_pikeblenny__Chaenopsis_ocellata  found from Florida to Cuba
              subtype:  #gunnel__bracketed_blenny__bracketedblenny  small eellike fishes common in shallow waters of the North Atlantic
                 subtype:  #rock_gunnel__butterfish__Pholis_gunnellus  slippery scaleless food fish of North Atlantic coastal waters
              subtype:  #prickleback  small elongate fishes of shallow northern seas; a long dorsal fin consists entirely of spines
                 subtype:  #snakeblenny__Lumpenus_lumpretaeformis  found in Arctic and North Atlantic
                 subtype:  #eelblenny  eellike fishes found in subarctic coastal waters
              subtype:  #wrymouth__ghostfish__Cryptacanthodes_maculatus  eellike Atlantic bottom fish with large almost vertical mouth
              subtype:  #wolffish__wolf_fish__catfish  large ferocious northern deep-sea food fishes with strong teeth and no pelvic fins
              subtype:  #eelpout__pout  marine eellike mostly bottom-dwelling fishes of northern seas
                 subtype:  #viviparous_eelpout__Zoarces_viviparus  an eelpout of northern Europe that is viviparous
                 subtype:  #fish_doctor__Gymnelis_viridis  brightly colored scaleless Arctic eelpout
                 subtype:  #ocean_pout__oceanpout__Macrozoarces_americanus  common along northeastern coast of North America
           subtype:  #goby__gudgeon  small spiny-finned fish of coastal or brackish waters having a large head and elongated tapering body having the ventral fins modified as a sucker
              subtype:  #mudskipper__mudspringer  found in tropical coastal regions of Africa and Asia; able to move on land on strong pectoral fins
           subtype:  #sleeper_goby__sleepergoby__sleeper  tropical fish that resembles a goby and rests quietly on the bottom in shallow water
           subtype:  #flathead  pallid bottom-dwelling flat-headed fish with large eyes and a duck-like snout
           subtype:  #archerfish__Toxotes_jaculatrix  any of several small freshwater fishes that catch insects by squirting water at them and knocking them into the water; found in Indonesia and Australia
           subtype:  #wormfish  poorly known family of small tropical shallow-water fishes related to gobies
           subtype:  #surgeonfish  brightly colored coral-reef fish with knifelike spines at the tail
              subtype:  #doctorfish__Acanthurus_chirurgus  surgeon fish of the West Indies
           subtype:  #gempylid  snake mackerels; elongated marine fishes with oily flesh; resembles mackerels; found worldwide
              subtype:  #snake_mackerel__snakemackerel__Gempylus_serpens  predatory tropical fishes with jutting jaws and strong teeth
              subtype:  #escolar__Lepidocybium_flavobrunneum  large snake mackerel with rings like spectacles around its eyes
              subtype:  #oilfish__ruvettuspretiosu  very large deep-water snake mackerel
           subtype:  #cutlassfish__frost_fish__frostfish__hairtail  long-bodied marine fishes having a long whiplike scaleless body and sharp teeth; closely related to snake mackerel
           subtype:  #scombroid_fish__scombroidfish__scombroid  important marine food and game fishes found in all tropical and temperate seas; some are at least partially endothermic and can thrive in colder waters
              subtype:  #mackerel  any of various fishes of the family Scombridae
                 subtype:  #common_mackerel__shiner__Scomber_scombrus  important food fish of the North Atlantic and Mediterranean; its body is greenish-blue with dark bars and small if any scales
                 subtype:  #Scomber_colias__Spanish_mackerel  medium-sized mackerel of temperate Atlantic and Gulf of Mexico
                 subtype:  #chub_mackerel__tinker__Scomber_japonicus  small mackerel found nearly worldwide
                 subtype:  #Acanthocybium_solandri__wahoo  large fast-moving predacious food and game fish; found worldwide
                 subtype:  #Spanish_mackerel  any of several large marine food fishes of the genus Scomberomorus
                    subtype:  #king_mackerel__cavalla__cero__Scomberomorus_cavalla  large mackerel with long pointed snout; important food and game fish of the eastern Atlantic coast south to Brazil
                    subtype:  #Scomberomorus_maculatus  large commercially important mackerel of American Atlantic coastal waters
                    subtype:  #cero__pintado__kingfish__Scomberomorus_regalis  large edible mackerel of temperate United States coastal Atlantic waters
                    subtype:  #Scomberomorus_sierra__sierra  a Spanish mackerel of western North America
              subtype:  #tuna__tunny  any very large marine food and game fish of the genus Thunnus; related to mackerel; chiefly of warm waters
                 subtype:  #long-fin_tunny__albacore__Thunnus_alalunga  large pelagic tuna the source of most canned tuna; reaches 93 pounds and has long pectoral fins; found worldwide in tropical and temperate waters
                 subtype:  #horse_mackerel__horsemackerel__bluefin__bluefin_tuna__bluefintuna__Thunnus_thynnus  largest tuna; to 1500 pounds; of mostly temperate seas: feed in polar regions but breed in tropics
                 subtype:  #yellowfin_tuna__yellowfintuna__yellowfin__Thunnus_albacares  may reach 400 pounds; worldwide in tropics
              subtype:  #bonito  any of various scombroid fishes intermediate in size and characteristics between mackerels and tunas
                 subtype:  #skipjack__Atlantic_bonito__Sarda_sarda  medium-sized tuna-like food fish of warm Atlantic and Pacific waters; less valued than tuna
                 subtype:  #Chile_bonito__Chilean_bonito__Sarda_chiliensis  common bonito of Pacific coast of the Americas; its dark oily flesh cans well
                 subtype:  #Pacific_bonito__Sarda_lineolata__sardalineolata  probably a northern strain of Chile bonito
              subtype:  #skipjack_tuna__skipjack__Euthynnus_pelamis  oceanic schooling tuna of considerable value in Pacific but less in Atlantic; reaches 75 pounds; very similar to if not the same as oceanic bonito
              subtype:  #oceanic_bonito__oceanicbonito__bonito__Katsuwonus_pelamis  fish whose flesh is dried and flaked for Japanese cookery; may be same species as skipjack tuna
              subtype:  #Xiphias_gladius__swordfish  large toothless marine food fish with a long swordlike upper jaw; not completely cold-blooded i.e. they are able to warm their brains and eyes: worldwide in warm waters but feed on cold ocean floor coming to surface at night
              subtype:  #sailfish  large pelagic game fish having an elongated upper jaw and long sail-like dorsal fin
                 subtype:  #Atlantic_sailfish__Istiophorus_albicans  a kind of sailfish
              subtype:  #billfish  giant warm-water game fish having a prolonged and rounded toothless upper jaw
                 subtype:  #marlin__spearfish  large long-jawed oceanic sport fishes; related to sailfishes and spearfishes; not completely cold-blooded i.e. able to warm their brains and eyes
                    subtype:  #blue_marlin__Makaira_nigricans  largest marlin; may reach 2000 pounds; found worldwide in warm seas
                    subtype:  #Makaira_mazara__black_marlin__blackmarlin  Pacific marlin
                    subtype:  #black_marlin__blackmarlin__Makaira_marlina  Pacific marlin
                    subtype:  #striped_marlin__stripedmarlin__Makaira_mitsukurii  Pacific food and game fish marked with dark blue vertical stripes
                    subtype:  #white_marlin__whitemarlin__Makaira_albida  small marlin (to 180 pounds) of western Atlantic
                 subtype:  #spearfish  any of several large vigorous pelagic fishes resembling sailfishes but with first dorsal fin much reduced; worldwide but rare
              subtype:  #louvar__Luvarus_imperialis  large silvery fish found worldwide in warm seas but nowhere common; resembles a whale and feeds on plankton
              subtype:  #squaretail  sluggish square-tailed fish armored with tough bony scales; of deep warm waters
           subtype:  #stromateid_fish__butterfish__stromateid  small marine fish with a short smooth-scaled compressed body and feeble spines
              subtype:  #dollarfish__Poronotus_triacanthus  small food fish of Atlantic coast
              subtype:  #palometa__California_pompano__Palometa_simillima  smaller than Florida pompano; common in West Indies
              subtype:  #harvestfish__Paprilus_alepidotus  butterfish up to a foot long of Atlantic waters from Chesapeake Bay to Argentina
              subtype:  #driftfish  small (6 inches) tropical butterfishes found worldwide
              subtype:  #driftfish.stromateid_fish  larger driftfishes of eastern Atlantic from the New York area to the northern Gulf of Mexico
              subtype:  #barrelfish__black_rudderfish__blackrudderfish__Hyperglyphe_perciformis  blackish fish of New England waters
           subtype:  #clingfish  very small (to 3 inches) flattened marine fish with a sucking disc on the abdomen for clinging to rocks etc.
              subtype:  #skilletfish__gobiesoxstrumosu  clingfish with typical skillet shape
           subtype:  #tripletail  large food fish of warm waters worldwide having long anal and dorsal fins that with caudal fin suggest a three-lobed tail
              subtype:  #Atlantic_tripletail__Lobotes_surinamensis  tripletail found from Cape Cod to northern South America
              subtype:  #Pacific_tripletail__Lobotes_pacificus  tripletail found in the Pacific
           subtype:  #mojarra  small silvery schooling fishes with protrusible mouths found in warm coastal waters
              subtype:  #yellowfin_mojarra__yellowfinmojarra__Gerres_cinereus  popular panfish from Bermuda and Gulf of Mexico to Brazil
              subtype:  #silver_jenny__Eucinostomus_gula  silvery mojarra found along sandy shores of the western Atlantic
           subtype:  #whiting.percoid_fish  a small fish of the genus Sillago; excellent food fish
        subtype:  #remora__suckerfish__sucking_fish__suckingfish  marine fishes with a flattened elongated body and a sucking disk on the head for attaching to large fish or moving objects
           subtype:  #sharksucker__Echeneis_naucrates  remoras found attached to sharks
           subtype:  #whalesucker__Remilegia_australis  large blue Pacific remora that attaches to whales and dolphins
        subtype:  #silverside__silversides  small fishes having a silver stripe along each side; found along the Atlantic coast of the United States
           subtype:  #jacksmelt__Atherinopsis_californiensis  large silversides of Pacific coast of North America
        subtype:  #barracuda  any voracious marine fish of the genus Sphyraena having an elongated cylindrical body and large mouth with projecting lower jaw and long strong teeth
           subtype:  #great_barracuda__greatbarracuda__Sphyraena_barracuda  large (up to 6 ft) grayish-brown barracuda highly regarded as a food and sport fish; may be dangerous to swimmers
        subtype:  #sand_lance__sand_launce__sand_eel__launce  very small silvery eellike schooling fishes that burrow into sandy beaches
        subtype:  #dragonet  small often brightly colored scaleless marine bottom-dwellers; found in tropical and warm-temperate waters of Europe and America
        subtype:  #scorpaenoid_fish__scorpaenoidfish__scorpaenoid  fishes having the the head armored with bony plates
           subtype:  #Ophiodon_elongatus__lingcod  food fish of Northern Pacific waters related to greenlings
           subtype:  #scorpaenid_fish__scorpaenid  any of numerous carnivorous usually bottom-dwelling warm-water marine fishes found worldwide but most abundant in the Pacific
              subtype:  #scorpionfish__scorpion_fish__sea_scorpion__seascorpion  marine fishes having a tapering body with an armored head and venomous spines
                 subtype:  #plumed_scorpionfish__Scorpaena_grandicornis  a kind of scorpionfish
              subtype:  #lionfish  brightly striped fish of the tropical Pacific having elongated spiny fins
              subtype:  #stonefish__Synanceja_verrucosa  venomous tropical marine fish resembling a piece of rock
              subtype:  #rockfish  marine food fish found among rocks along the northern coasts of Europe and America
                 subtype:  #copper_rockfish__Sebastodes_caurinus  of North American Pacific coastal waters
                 subtype:  #vermillion_rockfish__rasher__Sebastodes_miniatus  commercially important fish of the North American Pacific coast
                 subtype:  #Sebastodes_ruberrimus__red_rockfish__redrockfish  large fish of North American Pacific coast
                 subtype:  #Sebastodes_marinus__rosefish__ocean_perch__oceanperch  large fish of northern Atlantic coasts of America and Europe
           subtype:  #sculpin  any of numerous spiny large-headed broad-mouthed usually scaleless scorpaenoid fishes
              subtype:  #bullhead.sculpin  freshwater sculpin with a large flattened bony-plated head with hornlike spines
              subtype:  #miller's-thumb  small freshwater sculpin of Europe and North America
              subtype:  #sea_raven__searaven__Hemitripterus_americanus  large sculpin of western Atlantic; inflates itself when caught
              subtype:  #grubby__Myxocephalus_aenaeus  small sculpin of the coast of New England
           subtype:  #lumpfish__Cyclopterus_lumpus  clumsy soft thick-bodied North Atlantic fish with pelvic fins fused into a sucker; edible roe used for caviar
              subtype:  #lumpsucker  any of several very small lumpfishes
           subtype:  #snailfish__seasnail__sea_snail__seasnail__Liparis_liparis  small tadpole-shaped cold-water fishes with pelvic fins forming a sucker; related to lumpfish
           subtype:  #sea_poacher__seapoacher__poacher__sea_poker__seapoker  small slender fish (to 8 inches) with body covered by bony plates; chiefly of deeper north Pacific waters
              subtype:  #pogge__armed_bullhead__armedbullhead__Agonus_cataphractus  North Atlantic sea poacher
              subtype:  #alligatorfish__Aspidophoroides_monopterygius  small very elongate sea poachers
           subtype:  #greenling  food fish of the northern Pacific
              subtype:  #kelp_greenling__Hexagrammos_decagrammus  common food and sport fish of western coast of North America
              subtype:  #painted_greenling__paintedgreenling__convictfish__Oxylebius_pictus  greenling with whitish body marked with black bands
           subtype:  #flathead.scorpaenoid_fish  food fish of the Indonesian region of the Pacific; resembles gurnards
           subtype:  #gurnard  bottom-dwelling coastal fishes with spiny armored heads and fingerlike pectoral fins used for crawling along the sea bottom
              subtype:  #tub_gurnard__tubgurnard__yellow_gurnard__Trigla_lucerna  a kind of gurnard
              subtype:  #sea_robin__searobin__searobin  American gurnard; mostly found in bays and estuaries
                 subtype:  #northern_sea_robin__Prionotus_carolinus  large searobin; found from Nova Scotia to Florida
                 subtype:  #armored_searobin__armoredsearobin__armored_sea_robin__armoredsearobin__Peristedion_miniatum  sea robins having bony scutes on the body and barbels on the chin; found mostly on the continental slope
           subtype:  #flying_gurnard__flying_robin__butterflyfish  tropical fish with huge fanlike pectoral fins for underwater gliding; unrelated to searobins
        subtype:  #plectognath_fish__plectognathfish__plectognath  tropical marine fishes having the teeth fused into a beak and thick skin covered with bony plates or spines
           subtype:  #triggerfish  any of numerous compressed deep-bodied tropical fishes with sandpapery skin and erectile spines in the first dorsal fin
              subtype:  #queen_triggerfish__queentriggerfish__Bessy_cerca__oldwench__oldwife__balistesvetula  tropical Atlantic fish
           subtype:  #filefish  narrow flattened warm-water fishes with leathery skin and a long file-like dorsal spine
              subtype:  #leatherfish__leatherjacket  any of several brightly colored tropical filefishes
           subtype:  #boxfish__trunkfish  any of numerous small tropical fishes having body and head encased in bony plates
              subtype:  #cowfish__Lactophrys_quadricornis  trunkfish having hornlike spines over the eyes
           subtype:  #puffer__blowfish__globefish  any of numerous marine fishes whose elongated spiny body can inflate itself with water or air to form a globe; several species contain a potent nerve poison; closely related to spiny puffers
           subtype:  #spiny_puffer__spinypuffer  puffers having rigid or erectile spines
              subtype:  #porcupinefish__porcupine_fish__porcupinefish__Diodon_hystrix  spines become erect when the body is inflated; worldwide in warm waters
              subtype:  #balloonfish__Diodon_holocanthus  similar to but smaller than porcupinefish
              subtype:  #burrfish  any of several fishes having rigid flattened spines
           subtype:  #ocean_sunfish__oceansunfish__sunfish__headfish  among the largest bony fish; pelagic fish having an oval compressed body with high dorsal and anal fins and caudal fin reduced to a rudder-like lobe; worldwide in warm waters
              subtype:  #sharptail_mola__sharptailmola__Mola_lanceolata  caudal fin has a central projection
        subtype:  #flatfish  any of several families of fishes having flattened bodies that swim along the sea floor on one side of the body with both eyes on the upper side
           subtype:  #flounder.flatfish  any of various European and non-European marine flatfish
           subtype:  #righteye_flounder__righteyed_flounder__righteyedflounder  flounders with both eyes on the right side of the head
              subtype:  #Pleuronectes_platessa__plaice  large European food fish
              subtype:  #European_flatfish__Platichthys_flesus  important food fish of Europe
              subtype:  #Limanda_ferruginea__yellowtail_flounder  American flounder having a yellowish tail
              subtype:  #blackback_flounder__blackbackflounder__winter_flounder__lemon_sole__lemonsole__Pseudopleuronectes_americanus  important American food fish in the winter
              subtype:  #Microstomus_kitt__lemon_sole__lemonsole  European flatfish highly valued as food
              subtype:  #American_plaice__Hippoglossoides_platessoides  large American food fish
              subtype:  #Atlantic_halibut__Hippoglossus_hippoglossus  largest United States flatfish
              subtype:  #Pacific_halibut__Hippoglossus_stenolepsis  a righteye flounder found in the Pacific
           subtype:  #holibut  marine food fish of North Atlantic or North Pacific; the largest flatfish and one of the largest teleost fishes
           subtype:  #lefteye_flounder__lefteyeflounder__lefteyed_flounder  flatfishes with both eyes on the left side of the head
              subtype:  #southern_flounder__Paralichthys_lethostigmus  flounder of southern United States
              subtype:  #summer_flounder__Paralichthys_dentatus  flounder of eastern coast of North America
              subtype:  #gray_flounder__Etropus_rimosus  flounder found from North Carolina to Florida and the eastern Gulf of Mexico
              subtype:  #whiff.lefteye_flounder  a lefteye flounder found in coastal waters from New England to Brazil
                 subtype:  #horned_whiff__Citharichthys_cornutus  whiff found in waters from the Bahamas and northern Gulf of Mexico to Brazil
              subtype:  #sand_dab  small food fishes of the Pacific coast of North America
              subtype:  #Scophthalmus_aquosus__windowpane  very thin translucent flounder of the Atlantic coast of North America
              subtype:  #brill__scophthalmusrhombu  European food fish
              subtype:  #Psetta_maxima__turbot  a large brownish European flatfish
           subtype:  #tonguefish  left-eyed marine flatfish whose tail tapers to a point; of little commercial value
           subtype:  #sole.flatfish  right-eyed flatfish; many are valued as food; most common in warm seas especially European
              subtype:  #European_sole__Solea_solea  highly valued as food
              subtype:  #Solea_lascaris__lemon_sole__lemonsole  small European sole
              subtype:  #Parophrys_vitulus__English_sole__lemon_sole__lemonsole  popular pale brown food flatfish of the Pacific coast of North America
              subtype:  #sand_sole__Psettichthys_melanostichus  common flatfish of North American Pacific coast
              subtype:  #hogchoker__Trinectes_maculatus  useless as food; in coastal streams from Maine to Texas and Panama
     subtype:  #sweeper  little-known nocturnal fish of warm shallow seas with an oblong compressed body
     subtype:  #ganoid_fish__ganoid  primitive fishes having thick bony scales with a shiny covering
        subtype:  #bowfin__grindle__Amia_calva  primitive long-bodies carnivorous freshwater fish with a very long dorsal fin; found in sluggish waters of North America
        subtype:  #paddlefish__duckbill__Polyodon_spathula  primitive fish of the Mississippi valley having a long paddle-shaped snout
        subtype:  #Chinese_paddlefish__Psephurus_gladis  fish of larger rivers of China similar to the Mississippi paddlefish
        subtype:  #sturgeon  large primitive fishes valued for their flesh and roe; widely distributed in north temperate zone
           subtype:  #Pacific_sturgeon__white_sturgeon__whitesturgeon__Sacramento_sturgeon__Acipenser_transmontanus  food and game fish of marine and fresh waters of northwestern coast of North America
           subtype:  #beluga__hausen__white_sturgeon__whitesturgeon__Acipenser_huso  valuable source of caviar and isinglass; found in Black and Caspian seas
        subtype:  #gar__garfish__garpike__billfish__Lepisosteus_osseus  primitive predaceous North American fish covered with hard scales and having long jaws with needle-like teeth

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