gempylid
English
editNoun
editgempylid (plural gempylids)
- (zoology) Any fish of the escolar family, Gempylidae.
- 1998, The Museum, Contributions in Science, numbers 469-480, page 4:
- He also placed Lepidocybium Gill 1862 as the sister group of all the other gempylids and trichiurids.
- 2000, F. J. Gago, J. M. Leis, T. Trnski, “111: Trichiuridae”, in Jeffrey Martin Leis, Brooke M. Carson-Ewart, editors, The Larvae of Indo-Pacific Coastal Fishes, page 704:
- The larvae most likely to be confused with trichiurids are paralepidids and gempylids.
- 2002, S. S. Deshpande, Handbook of Food Toxicology[1], page 696:
- The gempylids, or snake mackerels, are a small group of predatory oceanic or pelagic fish.
Synonyms
edit- (any species of Gempylidae): escolar, snake mackerel