Spiny fish

11:20 Oct 12, 2017
English to Portuguese translations [PRO]
Science - Zoology
English term or phrase: Spiny fish
Unlike other fish, spiny fish, red fish, and blue fish love to eat crabs
João Cruz
Portugal
Local time: 15:45


Summary of answers provided
4 +1Baiacu
Mario Freitas
4 +1peixe leão
Mario Freitas
4acantopterígio
Matheus Chaud
4Perca fluviatilis..Perca flavescens
airmailrpl
4Acanthopterygii
Leonardo Faria


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spiny fish
acantopterígio


Explanation:

https://www.britannica.com/animal/spiny-finned-fish

Spiny-finned fish, also called spiny-rayed fish, any member of the superorder Acanthopterygii,


https://www.priberam.pt/dlpo/acantopterígio
Subordem de peixes que, como o ruivo, têm raios espiniformes e duros nas barbatanas.

Matheus Chaud
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spiny fish
Baiacu


Explanation:
Não sei em Portugal, mas no Brasil, chamamos de "Baiacu"

Mario Freitas
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spiny fish
Perca fluviatilis..Perca flavescens


Explanation:
spiny fish => Perca fluviatilis..Perca flavescens

Spiny-finned Fish | Britannica.com
https://www.britannica.com/topic-browse/Animals/Fish/Spiny-f...
either of two species of fish, the common and the yellow perch (Perca fluviatilis and P. flavescens, sometimes considered as single species, P. fluviatilis) of the family Percidae (order Perciformes). The name also is widely, and sometimes confusingly, applied to a variety of other fishes.

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Perca fluviatilis (fish) => perca-europeia (Portuguese

Eats a variety of aquatic organisms, including fish (including conspecifics), amphipods, crabs, isopods, shrimps, insects, fish eggs and larvae, cladocerans, copepods and mysids (FishBase, 2004).
http://issg.org/database/species/ecology.asp?si=548&fr=1&sts...

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spiny fish
peixe leão


Explanation:
Nossos amiguinhos aqui são da família "Pterois", conforme postado na discussão. Em português são conhecidos como "peixes-leão".
https://www.google.com.br/search?q=peixe leão&um=1&client=fi...

Mario Freitas
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Acanthopterygii


Explanation:
Todos os peixes espinhosos vem desta superordem, de acordo com o segundo link


    https://www.google.com/search?q=Spiny+fish&sxsrf=ALeKk00-8J10aIXiV8b6mLHorijGKCAEaQ:1611975739850&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwiF0vD
    https://www.britannica.com/animal/spiny-finned-fish
Leonardo Faria
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