﻿GLOSSARY 
  

  

  463 
  

  

  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 
  3- 
  1/2 
  pounds 
  each) 
  | 
  

  

  (Winter 
  flounder 
  (weighing 
  under 
  3-1/2 
  I 
  

  

  [^ 
  pounds 
  each) 
  

  

  Dab 
  

  

  Sea 
  dab 
  

  

  Summer 
  flounder, 
  gulf 
  flounder, 
  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, 
  1 
  

  

  1^ 
  butterfish 
  (N.C.) 
  f 
  

  

  Herring 
  

  

  (Continued 
  on 
  next 
  page) 
  

  

  Anguilla 
  Tostrata 
  

   Conger 
  oceanicus 
  

  

  Glyptocephalus 
  cynoglossus 
  

  

  Pseudopleuronectes 
  americanus 
  

  

  Limanda 
  ferruginea 
  

  

  H 
  ippoglossoides 
  platessoides 
  

  

  Paralichthys 
  species 
  

  

  Atkeresthes 
  stomias 
  

   Paralichthys 
  californicus 
  

   Citharichthys 
  sordidus 
  

  

  Microstomas 
  pacificus 
  

   Parophrys 
  vetulus 
  

   Eopsetta 
  jordani 
  

   Glyptocephalus 
  zachirus 
  

   Psettichtkys 
  melanostictus 
  

  

  Pleuronectidae 
  and 
  Bothidae 
  

  

  Cypselurus 
  species 
  

  

  Lepisosteus 
  species 
  

  

  Dorosoma 
  cepedianum 
  

  

  Carassius 
  auratus 
  

   f 
  Epinephelus 
  species 
  

   \ 
  Mycteroporca 
  species 
  

  

  Haemulon 
  species 
  

  

  Melanogrammus 
  aeglefinus 
  

  

  Vrophycis 
  chuss 
  (Atlantic) 
  

  

  Urophycis 
  tenuis 
  (Atlantic) 
  

  

  Merluccius 
  productus 
  (Pacific) 
  

  

  Medialuna 
  californiensis 
  

   \ 
  Hippoglossus 
  hippoglossus 
  (Atlantic) 
  

   I 
  Hippoglossus 
  stenolepis 
  (Pacific) 
  

  

  Orthodon 
  microlepidotus 
  (Pacific) 
  

  

  Peprilus 
  paru 
  

  

  

  Leucichthys 
  ortedii 
  (Great 
  Lakes 
  

  

  except 
  Erie) 
  

   Clupea 
  harengus 
  (Atlantic) 
  

   Clupea 
  pallasii 
  (Pacific) 
  

   Opisthonema 
  oglinum 
  

  

  