stromateid


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Noun1.stromateid - small marine fish with a short compressed body and feeble spines
stromateid fish, butterfish
percoid, percoid fish, percoidean - any of numerous spiny-finned fishes of the order Perciformes
family Stromateidae, Stromateidae - butterfishes: harvest fishes; dollar fishes
dollarfish, Poronotus triacanthus - small food fish of Atlantic coast
California pompano, palometa, Palometa simillima - smaller than Florida pompano; common in West Indies
harvestfish, Paprilus alepidotus - butterfish up to a foot long of Atlantic waters from Chesapeake Bay to Argentina
driftfish - small (6 inches) tropical butterfishes found worldwide
driftfish - larger butterfishes of the western Atlantic from the New York area to the northern Gulf of Mexico
barrelfish, black rudderfish, Hyperglyphe perciformis - blackish fish of New England waters
butterfish - any of numerous small flat Atlantic food fish having smooth skin
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In addition to their potential role in biogeochemical cycles transporting the energy obtained in the pelagic realm to the bottom, some schools of stromateid juvenile fishes have been observed probably looking for shelter and food around large C.
Medusae (Scyphozoa and Cubozoa) from southwestern Atlantic and Subantarctic region (32-60[degrees]S, 34-70[degrees]W): species composition, spatial distribution and life history traits
We suspect that this is generally true for other fishes that prey upon gelatinous zooplankton, with a few exceptions (e.g., Stromateid fishes such as Stromateus brasiliensis Fowler 1906 or Seriolella porosa Guichenot, 1848 that feed almost exclusively on ctenophores) [35].
Bounds on biomass estimates and energetic consequences of Ctenophora in the Northeast U.S. shelf ecosystem
As expected, larvae of nearshore and inner shelf species were the most dominant, such as coastal pelagic (e.g., engraulids, carangids, clupeids, stromateids, gerreids) and coastal demersal (e.g., sciaenids, paralichthyids, gobiids, cynoglossids, synodontids) species.
Seasonal variability in ichthyoplankton abundance and assemblage composition in the northern Gulf of Mexico off Alabama

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