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Noun1.fish family - any of various families of fishfish family - any of various families of fish  
Cobitidae, family Cobitidae - loaches
Cyprinidae, family Cyprinidae - a family of fish including: carp; tench; roach; rudd; dace
Electrophoridae, family Electrophoridae - small family comprising the electric eels
Catostomidae, family Catostomidae - suckers; closely related to the family Cyprinidae
Cyprinodontidae, family Cyprinodontidae - large family of small soft-finned fishes; killifishes; flagfishes; swordtails; guppies
family Poeciliidae, Poeciliidae - topminnows
family Holocentridae, Holocentridae - squirrelfishes and soldierfishes
Anomalopidae, family Anomalopidae - a family of fish including: flashlight fishes
family Zeidae, Zeidae - a family of fish in the order Zeomorphi
Caproidae, family Caproidae - boarfishes
family Fistulariidae, Fistulariidae - cornetfishes
family Gasterosteidae, Gasterosteidae - sticklebacks
family Syngnathidae, Syngnathidae - pipefishes
family Macrorhamphosidae, Macrorhamphosidae - bellows fishes
Centriscidae, family Centriscidae - shrimpfishes
Aulostomidae, family Aulostomidae - trumpetfishes
Craniata, subphylum Craniata, subphylum Vertebrata, Vertebrata - fishes; amphibians; reptiles; birds; mammals
family Petromyzontidae, Petromyzontidae - lampreys
family Myxinidae, Myxinidae - slime-producing marine animals: hagfishes
Chimaeridae, family Chimaeridae - a family of Holocephali
family Hexanchidae, Hexanchidae - primitive sharks
family Lamnidae, Lamnidae - oceanic sharks
family Isuridae, Isuridae - in some classifications another name for the family Lamnidae
Cetorhinidae, family Cetorhinidae - in some older classifications considered the family of the basking sharks
Alopiidae, family Alopiidae - thresher sharks
family Orectolobidae, Orectolobidae - nurse sharks and carpet sharks
Carchariidae, family Carchariidae, family Odontaspididae, Odontaspididae - sand sharks; in some classifications coextensive with family Carcharhinidae
family Rhincodontidae, Rhincodontidae - small-toothed sharks comprising only one species
family Scyliorhinidae, Scyliorhinidae - small bottom-dwelling sharks
Carcharhinidae, family Carcharhinidae - largest family of living sharks; found worldwide especially in tropical waters; dorsal fin lacks spines: requiem sharks including tiger sharks and soupfin sharks
family Triakidae, Triakidae - small sharks with smooth skins and lacking spines on their dorsal fins
family Squalidae, Squalidae - dogfishes having a spine in each dorsal fin
family Sphyrnidae, Sphyrnidae - hammerhead sharks; bonnethead sharks
family Squatinidae, Squatinidae - bottom-dwelling ray-like sharks
family Torpedinidae, Torpedinidae - electric rays
family Pristidae, Pristidae - large primitive rays with elongated snouts
family Rhinobatidae, Rhinobatidae - primitive rays with guitar-shaped bodies
Dasyatidae, family Dasyatidae - sting rays
family Myliobatidae, Myliobatidae - eagle rays
family Mobulidae, Mobulidae - large rays lacking venomous spines: mantas
family Rajidae, Rajidae - bottom-dwelling tropical rays: skates
family Latimeridae, Latimeridae - extinct except for the coelacanth
Ceratodontidae, family Ceratodontidae - lungfishes having hornlike ridges on the teeth
family Siluridae, Siluridae - Old World catfishes
Ameiuridae, family Ameiuridae - North American catfishes
family Laricariidae, Laricariidae - armored catfish
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