family Carangidae
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| Noun | 1. | family Carangidae - large family of narrow-bodied marine food fishes with widely forked tails; chiefly of warm seas fish family - any of various families of fish order Perciformes, order Percomorphi, Perciformes, Percomorphi - one of the largest natural groups of fishes of both marine and fresh water: true perches; basses; tuna carangid, carangid fish - a percoid fish of the family Carangidae Caranx, genus Caranx - type genus of the Carangidae jack - any of several fast-swimming predacious fishes of tropical to warm temperate seas Elagatis, genus Elagatis - a genus of Carangidae genus Oligoplites, Oligoplites - leatherjackets Alectis, genus Alectis - a genus of Carangidae genus Selene, Selene - a genus of Carangidae genus Seriola, Seriola - a genus of Carangidae genus Trachinotus, Trachinotus - a genus of Carangidae genus Naucrates, Naucrates - a genus of Carangidae scad - any of a number of fishes of the family Carangidae genus Trachurus, Trachurus - the scads (particularly horse mackerels) genus Selar, Selar - big-eyed scad Decapterus, genus Decapterus - scads especially mackerel scad; cosmopolitan in distribution |
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