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ser·ran·id

 (sə-răn′ĭd, sĕr′ə-nĭd)
adj. & n.
Any of various fishes of the family Serranidae, including groupers and sea bass.
[From New Latin Serranidae, family name, from Latin serra, saw, sawfish.]
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serranid

(səˈrænɪd; ˈsɛrə-) or

serranoid

n
(Animals) any of numerous mostly marine percoid fishes of the family Serranidae: includes the sea basses, sea perches, groupers, and jewfish
adj
(Zoology) of or belonging to the family Serranidae
[C19: from New Latin Serranidae, from serrānus genus name from Latin serra sawfish]
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ser•ra•nid

(səˈreɪ nɪd, -ˈrɑ-, -ˈræn ɪd)

n.
1. any of numerous percoid fishes of the family Serranidae, living chiefly in warm seas, including the sea basses and groupers.
adj.
2. belonging or pertaining to the family Serranidae.
[1895–1900; < New Latin Serranidae=Serran(us) a genus (Latin serr(a) sawfish + -ānus -an1) + -idae -id2]
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ThesaurusAntonymsRelated WordsSynonymsLegend:
Noun1.serranid - marine food sport fishes mainly of warm coastal waters
serranid fish
percoid, percoid fish, percoidean - any of numerous spiny-finned fishes of the order Perciformes
family Serranidae, Serranidae - marine fishes: sea basses; sea perches; groupers; jewfish
Morone americana, white perch, silver perch - small silvery food and game fish of eastern United States streams
Morone interrupta, yellow bass - North American freshwater bass resembling the larger marine striped bass
sea bass - any of various food and sport fishes of the Atlantic coast of the United States having an elongated body and long spiny dorsal fin
soapfish - fishes with slimy mucus-covered skin; found in the warm Atlantic coastal waters of America
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It is a serranid distributed from Monterey, California to Mazatlan, Mexico (Miller & Lea, 1972).
Spotted sand bass, Paralabrax maculatofasciatus, larviculture in Mexico: current status and perspectives
Casting the Percomorph Net Widely: The importance of broad taxonomic sampling in the search for the placement of Serranid and Percid fishes.
Complete Mitochondrial Genomes of Two Oriental Sweetlips, Plectorhinchus orientalis and Plectorhinchus vittatus (Perciformes: Haemulidae) with the Molecular Analysis on their Synonym Controversies
curtus has previously been recorded in another serranid fish: Mycteroperca bonaci (Poey, 1860) in the littoral of Bahia and Espirito Santo (Luque et al., 1998), demonstrating the specificity of this sea lice for the fishes of the family Serranidae in the Atlantic Ocean.
First record of sea lice Lepeophtheirus curtus (Copepoda, Caligidae) in sea-farmed Epinephelus marginatus (Serranidae) in Brazil
On the status of the serranid fish genus Epinephelus: Evidence for paraphyly based upon 16S DNA sequence.
Rapid origin determination of the northern Mauxia shrimp (Acetes chinensis) based on allele specific polymerase chain reaction of partial mitochondrial 16s rRNA gene
2005) documented that warm water conditions resulted in an unusually heavy infestation of philometrid nematodes which can function as a threat to the serranid fish population as these parasitic nematodes decreased the spawning capacity of serranids.
EPIDEMIOLOGICAL STUDIES OF NEMATODES IN FISHES
A second species of small planktivorus serranid, originally described as Serranus incisus by Colin (1978), was transferred to Parasphyraenops by Johnson & Smith-Vaniz (1987).
Fishes of Bermuda
Reproductive behaviour of a temperate serranid fish, Paralabrax clathratus (Girard), from Santa Catalina Island, California, U.S.A.
Reproductive dynamics of Gulf menhaden (Brevoortia patronus) in the northern Gulf of Mexico: effects on stock assessments
Such cooperative "egg trading" behavior has been observed in several serranid fish species as well as in polychaete worms (external fertilizers) (Fischer, 1980; Axelrod and Hamilton, 1981; Sella and Ramella, 1999; Sella and Lorenzi, 2000; Erisman and Allen, 2006; Crowley and Hart, 2007; Hart et al., 2016).
Resource availability drives mating role selection in a simultaneous hermaphrodite Aplysia californica
Sadovy, "Reproductive biology of a diandric protogynous hermaphrodite, the serranid Epinephelus andersoni," Marine and Freshwater Research, vol.
Reproductive biology and fishery-related characteristics of the Malabar grouper (Epinephelus malabaricus) caught in the coastal waters of Mafia Island, Tanzania
Coral trouts of the genus Plectropomus are members of the serranid subfamily Epinephelinae, which are commonly known as groupers [7].
Some morphometric relationships of coral trouts Plectropomus pessuliferus and Plectropomus areolatus inhabiting Sudanese Red Sea
Red hind, Epinephelus guttatus, another serranid demonstrating transient spawning behavior, also showed variability in spawning migration distance (e.g., 1.8 32.3 km; Nemeth et al.
Spawning-related movements of barred sand bass, Paralabrax nebulifer, in Southern California: interpretations from two decades of historical tag and recapture data
Serranid fishes represented 44% of the bycatch in the EGM.
Overview of the U.S. east coast bottom longline shark fishery, 1994-2003

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