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• perch go
  any of numerous spiny-finned fishes of various families of the order Perciformes
  
• perch go
  spiny-finned freshwater food and game fishes
  
• sandfish go
  either of two small silvery scaleless fishes of the northern Pacific that burrow into sand
  
• cusk-eel go
  elongate compressed somewhat eel-shaped fishes
  
• brotula go
  deep-sea fishes
  
• pearlfish, pearl-fish go
  found living within the alimentary canals of e.g. sea cucumbers or between the shells of pearl oysters in or near shallow seagrass beds
  
• robalo go
  a kind of percoid fish
  
• pike go
  any of several elongate long-snouted freshwater game and food fishes widely distributed in cooler parts of the northern hemisphere
  
• sunfish, centrarchid go
  small carnivorous freshwater percoid fishes of North America usually having a laterally compressed body and metallic luster: crappies
  
• bass go
  nontechnical name for any of numerous edible marine and freshwater spiny-finned fishes
  
• serranid fish, serranid go
  marine food sport fishes mainly of warm coastal waters
  
• surfperch, surffish, surf fish go
  small to medium-sized shallow-water fishes of the Pacific coast of North America
  
• bigeye go
  red fishes of American coastal tropical waters having very large eyes and rough scales
  
• catalufa, Priacanthus arenatus go
  brightly colored carnivorous fish of western Atlantic and West Indies waters
  
• cardinalfish go
  small red fishes of coral reefs and inshore tropical waters
  
• tilefish, Lopholatilus chamaeleonticeps go
  yellow-spotted violet food fish of warm deep waters
  
• bluefish, Pomatomus saltatrix go
  bluish warm-water marine food and game fish that follow schools of small fishes into shallow waters
  
• cobia, Rachycentron canadum, sergeant fish go
  large dark-striped tropical food and game fish related to remoras
  
• carangid fish, carangid go
  a percoid fish of the family Carangidae
  
• dolphin, dolphinfish, mahimahi go
  large slender food and game fish widely distributed in warm seas (especially around Hawaii)
  
• tilefish, blanquillo go
  important marine food fishes
  
• cichlid, cichlid fish go
  freshwater fishes of tropical America and Africa and Asia similar to American sunfishes
  
• snapper go
  any of several large sharp-toothed marine food and sport fishes of the family Lutjanidae of mainly tropical coastal waters
  
• grunt go
  medium-sized tropical marine food fishes that utter grunting sounds when caught
  
• sparid, sparid fish go
  spiny-finned food fishes of warm waters having well-developed teeth
  
• bream, sea bream go
  any of numerous marine percoid fishes especially (but not exclusively) of the family Sparidae
  
• sciaenid fish, sciaenid go
  widely distributed family of carnivorous percoid fishes having a large air bladder used to produce sound
  
• mullet go
  bottom dwelling marine warm water fishes with two barbels on the chin
  
• mullet, grey mullet, gray mullet go
  freshwater or coastal food fishes a spindle-shaped body
  
• sea chub go
  schooling fishes mostly of Indian and western Pacific oceans
  
• angelfish, spadefish, Chaetodipterus faber go
  deep-bodied disk-shaped food fish of warmer western Atlantic coastal waters
  
• butterfly fish go
  small usually brilliantly colored tropical marine fishes having narrow deep bodies with large broad fins
  
• damselfish, demoiselle go
  small brilliantly colored tropical marine fishes of coral reefs
  
• wrasse go
  chiefly tropical marine fishes with fleshy lips and powerful teeth
  
• parrotfish, polly fish, pollyfish go
  gaudy tropical fishes with parrotlike beaks formed by fusion of teeth
  
• threadfin go
  mullet-like tropical marine fishes having pectoral fins with long threadlike rays
  
• jawfish go
  small large-mouthed tropical marine fishes common along sandy bottoms
  
• stargazer go
  heavy-bodied marine bottom-lurkers with eyes on flattened top of the head
  
• sand stargazer go
  small pallid fishes of shoal tropical waters of North America and South America having eyes on stalks atop head
  
• blennioid fish, blennioid go
  elongated mostly scaleless marine fishes with large pectoral fins and reduced pelvic fins
  
• gudgeon, goby go
  small spiny-finned fish of coastal or brackish waters having a large head and elongated tapering body having the ventral fins modified as a sucker
  
• sleeper, sleeper goby go
  tropical fish that resembles a goby and rests quietly on the bottom in shallow water
  
• flathead go
  pallid bottom-dwelling flat-headed fish with large eyes and a duck-like snout
  
• archerfish, Toxotes jaculatrix go
  any of several small freshwater fishes that catch insects by squirting water at them and knocking them into the water
  
• worm fish go
  poorly known family of small tropical shallow-water fishes related to gobies
  
• surgeonfish go
  brightly colored coral-reef fish with knifelike spines at the tail
  
• gempylid go
  snake mackerels
  
• cutlassfish, frost fish, hairtail go
  long-bodied marine fishes having a long whiplike scaleless body and sharp teeth
  
• scombroid, scombroid fish go
  important marine food and game fishes found in all tropical and temperate seas
  
• butterfish, stromateid fish, stromateid go
  small marine fish with a short compressed body and feeble spines
  
• clingfish go
  very small (to 3 inches) flattened marine fish with a sucking disc on the abdomen for clinging to rocks etc.
  
• tripletail go
  large food fish of warm waters worldwide having long anal and dorsal fins that with a caudal fin suggest a three-lobed tail
  
• mojarra go
  small silvery schooling fishes with protrusible mouths found in warm coastal waters
  
• whiting go
  a small fish of the genus Sillago