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Definition of Serranid
1. Noun. Marine food sport fishes mainly of warm coastal waters.
Generic synonyms: Percoid, Percoid Fish, Percoidean
Group relationships: Family Serranidae, Serranidae
Specialized synonyms: Morone Americana, Silver Perch, White Perch, Morone Interrupta, Yellow Bass, Sea Bass, Soapfish
Definition of Serranid
1. a marine fish [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Serranid
Literary usage of Serranid
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Stoddart's Encyclopaedia Americana: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and by American supplement, Encyclopaedia britannica (1886)
"The Sparidae are well distinguished from the serranid» by the manner in which
the lower jaw is received into a sheath when the mouth is closed, ..."
2. Fishing by Horace Gordon Hutchinson (1904)
"THE SEA-BASS AND SEA-PERCH (serranid<e] This family, one of the largest of the class
... Suffice it to say that the eyeball is supported, in the serranid<e, ..."
3. The American Naturalist by American Society of Naturalists, Essex Institute (1907)
"serranid.E Roccus lineatus (Bloch). STRIPED BASS. — Delaware River basin at
Tinicum, Delaware Co.; League Island, Tacony, Holmes- burg, and Torresdale, ..."
4. College zoology by Robert William Hegner (1918)
"The Silver- sides and Mullets. Suborder 9. ACANTHOPTERYGII. The Spiny-rayed Fishes.
Family serranid.E. The Sea-basses. ..."
5. American Food and Game Fishes: A Popular Account of All the Species Found in by David Starr Jordan, Barton Warren Evermann (1902)
"... serranid/E, 370 c. Perch-like fishes, the caudal peduncle not very slender,
the scales well d. Maxillary not sheathed by the preorbital, ..."
6. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia (1903)
"... like most of the rays. Length 4| inches. One example taken from below a
Portuguese man-of-war (Physalia) in Biscayne Bay. serranid-ffi. 3. ..."
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