percopsid

Noun

percopsid (plural percopsids)

1. Any fish in the family Percopsidae, including two living species containing trout-perches and sand rollers
   • These are, the Etheostomids or stone-toters; the Centrarchids or sun-fishes, and kindred forms; the Hyodontids or gizzard-shads; the Percopsids; the Aphredoderids; the Amblyopsids, (blind and cave fishes;) the Amiids or bow-fins, and the Lepidosteids, or alligator gars.1867, United States. Dept. of Agriculture, Report of the Commissioner of Agriculture for the Year 1866, page 405
   • There are, in fact, with the exception of one Percopsid in the Columbia River, no representatives of most of the families which give the stamp of peculiarity to the Union's population; the Etheostomine and indeed all other Percids are wanting, and only a single species of Centrarchids--the Perch of...1903, George Brown Goode, American Fishes: A Popular Treatise Upon the Game and Food Fishes of North America