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Lutjanidae

Definition:

a family including snappers

Class:

animal noun (animals and microorganisms)

Plural:

Lutjanidae*
(* Lutjanidae may be used in a singular or plural context)

Original source:

WordNet

Examples:

Lutjanus | Ocyurus | snapper

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Reference links

Wikipedia:

Lutjanidae | Snappers

Summary:

a family of perciform fish, mainly marine but with some members inhabiting estuaries, feeding in freshwater. Some are important food fish. One of the best known is the red snapper. Snappers inhabit tropical and subtropical regions of all oceans. They ...  (40 of 996 words, 1 image)

Britannica:

snapper

Summary:

any of about105 species of fishes of the family Lutjanidae. Snappers are found, often in abundance, throughout the tropics. Active, schooling fishes ...  (22 of 104 words)

Wiktionary:

Percoidea | Acropomatidae [hyponym] | Ambassidae [hyponym] | Apogonidae [hyponym] | Arripidae [hyponym] | Banjosidae [hyponym] | Bathyclupeidae [hyponym] | Bramidae [hyponym] | Caesionidae [hyponym] | Callanthiidae [hyponym] | Carangidae [hyponym] | Caristiidae [hyponym] | Centracanthidae [hyponym] | Centrarchidae [hyponym] | Centrogeniidae [hyponym] | Centropomidae [hyponym] | Chaetodontidae [hyponym] | Coryphaenidae [hyponym] | Dichistiidae [hyponym] | Dinolestidae [hyponym] | Dinopercidae [hyponym] | Drepaneidae [hyponym] | Echeneidae [hyponym] | Emmelichthyidae [hyponym] | Enoplosidae [hyponym] | Epigonidae [hyponym] | Gerreidae [hyponym] | Glaucosomatidae [hyponym] | Grammatidae [hyponym] | Haemulidae [hyponym] | Inermiidae [hyponym] | Kuhliidae [hyponym] | Kyphosidae [hyponym] | Lactariidae [hyponym] | Lateolabracidae [hyponym] | Latidae [hyponym] | Leiognathidae [hyponym] | Leptobramidae [hyponym] | Lethrinidae [hyponym] | Lobotidae [hyponym] | Lutjanidae [hyponym] | Malacanthidae [hyponym] | Menidae [hyponym] | Monodactylidae [hyponym] | Moronidae [hyponym] | Mullidae [hyponym] | Nandidae [hyponym] | Nematistiidae [hyponym] | Nemipteridae [hyponym] | Opistognathidae [hyponym] | Oplegnathidae [hyponym] | Ostracoberycidae [hyponym] | Parascorpididae [hyponym] | Pempheridae [hyponym] | Pentacerotidae [hyponym] | Percichthyidae [hyponym] | Percidae [hyponym] | Perciliidae [hyponym] | Plesiopidae [hyponym] | Polycentridae [hyponym] | Polynemidae [hyponym] | Polyprionidae [hyponym] | Pomacanthidae [hyponym] | Pomatomidae [hyponym] | Priacanthidae [hyponym] | Pseudochromidae [hyponym] | Rachycentridae [hyponym] | Sciaenidae [hyponym] | Scombropidae [hyponym] | Serranidae [hyponym] | Sillaginidae [hyponym] | Sparidae [hyponym] | Symphysanodontidae [hyponym] | Terapontidae [hyponym] | Toxotidae [hyponym]

Summary:

[taxonomy] A taxonomic superfamily within the suborder Percoidei — many fish.  (10 of 19 words, 1 etymology)

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