GLOSSARY 



Common names as shown 

 in Bureau reports 



Other common names 



Scientific names 



FISH - Continued 



Eel: 



Common 



Conger 



Flounders: 

 Atlantic and Gulf Coasts: 



Gray sole 



Lemon sole 



Blackback 



Yellowtail 



Dab 



Fluke 



Pacific Coast: 



Arrowtooth halibut 



California halibut 



Sand dabs 



"Sole": 



Dover 



English 



Petrale 



Rex 



Sand 



Unclassified 



Flying fish 



Garfish 



Gizzard shad 



Goldfish 



Groupers 



Grunts 



Haddock 



Hake': 



Red 



White 



Pacific 



Halfmoon 



Halibut 



Hardhead 



Harvestfish 



Herring: 



Lake 



Sea 



Thread 



(weighing over > 1 2 pounds each) | 



JWinter flounder (weighing under 3-12 l 



T^ pounds each) | 



Dab 



Sea dab 



Summer flounder, gulf floundei; flounder. • 



Gar, sea gar 



Nanny shad, mud shad, winter shad 



Sand perch, gold perch 



"Sea bass" 



Margate fish, sailors' choice 



Squirrel hake, ling, black hake, mud hake 



Hake 



Merluccio 



Rudder fish 



Sacramento rockfish 



JStarfi"'- , dollarfish, pappyfish, I 



1^ butterfish (N.C.) J 



Herring 



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A nguilla rostrata 

 Conger oceanicus 



Glyptocephalus eynoglossus 



PseudopUuronectes americanus 



Limanda ferruginea 

 Hippoglossoides platessoides 

 Paralichthys species 



Atheresthes stomias 

 Paralichthys californicus 

 Citharichthys sordidus 



Microstomus pacificus 

 Parophrys vetulus 

 Eopsetta jordani 

 Glyptocephalus zachirus 

 Psettichthys melanostictus 



Pleuronectidae and Bothidae 

 Cypselurus species 



Lepisosteus species 



Dorosoma cepedianum 



Carassius auratus 

 lEpirtephelus species 

 I Mycteroporca species 



Haemulon species 



Melanogrammus aeglefinus 



Vrophycis chuss (Atlantic) 



Urophycis tenuis (Atlantic) 



Merluccius productus (Pacific) 



Medialuna californiensis 

 I Hippoglossus hippoglossus (Atlantic) 

 I Hippoglossus stenolepis (Pacific) 



Orthodon microlepidotus (Pacific) 



Peprilus paru 



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Leucichthys artedii (Great Lakes 

 except Erie) 



{Clupea harengus (Atlantic) 

 Clupea pallasii (Pacific) 

 Opisthonema oglinum 



