Esocidae


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Noun1.Esocidae - pikes; pickerels; muskellunges
fish family - any of various families of fish
order Perciformes, order Percomorphi, Perciformes, Percomorphi - one of the largest natural groups of fishes of both marine and fresh water: true perches; basses; tuna
Esox, genus Esox - type and only genus of the family Esocidae
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Thus, I use the primary or freshwater dispersant families following McPhail (1967): Cyprinidae, Catostomidae, Esocidae (Um-bridae in McPhail) and Percopsidae.
Four families of fishes: Catostomidae, Esocidae, Fundulidae, and Poeciliidae were negatively correlated with Plains Topminnow persistence throughout Nebraska (Table 1).
2009: Diet composition and size-related changes in the feeding of pikeperch, Stizostedion lucioperca (Percidae) and pike, Esox lucius (Esocidae) in the Lake Peipsi (Estonia).
Elopidae 180 XXVI(2) smithi Esox affinis* Esox niger Esocidae 198 XXVII(1) Esox ravenelii* Esox americanus Esocidae 201 XXVII(2) Trachinotus Trachinotus goodei Carangidae 192 XXVIII(1) glaucus* Huenudon ?Haemdon striatum Haemulidae 195 XXVIII(2) quadrilineatum* Not in text Alosa mediocris Clupeidae XXIX(1) Not in text AIosa sapidissima Clupeidae XXX(2) Not in text Brevoortia lyrannus Clupeidae XXX(1) Not in text Dorosoma cepedianum Clupeidae XXX(2) *Plate number in text does not agree with number on plate.
Local host: Esociformes: Esocidae: Esox lucius Linnaeus, 1758.
IDNR Scientific name 1970-1976 Esocidae, pickerel & pikes Esox americanus, Grass pickerel E.
Molecular and phenotypic evidence of a new species of genus Esox (Esocidae, Esociformes, Actinopterygii): the southern pike, Esox flaviae.