Snoek
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Snoek or Snook is used in various forms as the common name used for several species of fish.
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[edit] Order Perciformes (Perch-like)
- Family Centropomidae (Snooks)
- Centropomus ensiferus
- Centropomus parallelus
- Centropomus undecimalis
- Family Gempylidae (Snake Mackerels)
- Thyrsites atun -- native to the Southern Hemisphere and name used in Great Britain and United States is Snoek while in Australia the name can be barracouta which is in no way related to barracuda.
- Thyrsitoides marleyi -- Called Swart snoek and Black Snoek in South Africa; Black Snoek in U.S., Great Britain
- Family Percidae (Perches)
- Sander canadensis -- Known as Canadese snoekbaars in the Netherlands
- Family Scombridae (Mackerels, tunas, bonitos), subfamily: Scombrinae
- Scomberomorus plurilineatus -- Natal snoek in South Africa
- Family Sphyraenidae (Barracudas)
- Sphyraena japonica -- Japanese Barracuda, called Snoek in Great Britain
- Sphyraena jello -- known as the Pickhandle barracuda and snoek in the Mauritius
- Sphyraena picudilla -- called Southern sennet and Rond Snoeke in the Antilles
- Family Trichiuridae (Cutlassfishes), subfamily: Lepidopinae
- Lepidopus caudatus -- known as bottiersnoek in South Africa and Namibia
[edit] Order Esociformes (pikes and mudminnows)
[edit] Order Anguilliformes (eels and morays)
- Family Muraenesocidae (Pike congers)
- Muraenesox bagio -- known in South Africa as the Snoekpaling
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