Sunfish vs. Moonfish

Any of various North American freshwater fishes of the family Centrarchidae, having laterally compressed, often brightly colored bodies and including the crappies, black bass, bluegill, and pumpkinseed.

Any of several carangid fishes chiefly of the genus Selene, found in warm coastal waters of North and South America and having a short silvery compressed body.

Any of several large marine fishes of the family Molidae, especially the ocean sunfish.

See opah.

Any of various small freshwater fishes of the family Centrarchidae, often with iridescent colours and having a laterally compressed body.

Any of various flat, oval marine fish species.

Any of various large marine fishes of the family Molidae that have an oval compressed body.

Family Monodactylidae (pl=es, pl=es)

(intransitive) Of an animal such as a bull or a horse: to twist the body into a crescent shape and roll back and forth.

Mene maculata, of tropical coastal waters of the Indo-Pacific

A very large oceanic plectognath fish (Mola mola, Mola rotunda, or Orthagoriscus mola) having a broad body and a truncated tail.

Most species of genus Selene

The lean flesh of any of numerous American perch-like fishes of the family Centrarchidae

(Chaetodipterus faber)

Among the largest bony fish; pelagic fish having an oval compressed body with high dorsal and anal fins and caudal fin reduced to a rudder-like lobe; worldwide in warm waters

Family Molidae (ocean sunfish)

Small carnivorous freshwater percoid fishes of North America usually having a laterally compressed body and metallic luster: crappies; black bass; bluegills; pumpkinseed

The opahs in the family Lamprididae.

The cusk (Brosme brosme), a North Atlantic cod-like fish in the ling family Lotidae, the only species in its genus.

The southern platyfish (Xiphophorus maculatus)

An American marine fish (Vomer setipennis); - called also bluntnosed shiner, horsefish, and sunfish.

Any of several silvery marine fishes with very flat bodies

Large elliptical brightly colored deep-sea fish of Atlantic and Pacific and Mediterranean