"Cottoid" is a word in ENGLISH

A genus of ganoid fishes, including the sturgeons, having the body armed with bony scales, and the mouth on the …

A genus of fresh-water ganoid fishes, exclusively confined to North America; called bowfin in Lake Champlain, dogfish in Lake Erie, …

One of a genus of fishes; the sand eel.

A genus of fishes, remarkable for their power of living long out of water, and of making their way on …

A fish of Europe (Maurolicus Pennantii) with silvery scales. The name is also applied to various fishes of the genus …

A genus of copepod Crustacea, parasitic of fishes; a fish louse. See Branchiura.

A genus of fishes, some of which were eighteen or twenty feet long, found in a fossil state in the …

Like a fish of the genus Balistes; of the family Balistidae. See Filefish.

A fish of the genus Diodon or the genus Tetraodon, having the power of distending its body by taking air …

A small red fish of the genus Cepola; the ribbon fish.

A voracious pikelike, marine fish, of the genus Sphyraena, sometimes used as food.

A fish of the genus Priacanthus, remarkable for the large size of the eye.

An edible, fresh-water fish of the United States, of the genus Micropterus. the small-mouthed kind is M. dolomiei; the large-mouthed …

A marine fish of the genus Blennius or family Blenniidae; -- so called from its coating of mucus. The species …

An edible fish of the Nile (genus Chromis).

A spotted European fish of the genus Lucioperca, resembling a perch.

A marine sparoid fish of the genus Pagellus, and allied genera. See Sea Bream.

A European fresh-water cyprinoid fish of the genus Abramis, little valued as food. Several species are known.

A fresh-water fish of many species, of the genus Uranidea, esp. U. gobio of Europe, and U. Richardsoni of the …

A marine fish of the genus Cottus; the sculpin.