snoek

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Snoek or Snook is used in various forms as the common name for several species of fish. The name derives from the Dutch name "snoek" for the pike^[1].

Order Esociformes (pikes and mudminnows)

• Family Esocidae
  • Esox lucius -- Northern pike, called "snoek" in Dutch.
  • Haplochromis insidiae -- Found in Lake Kivu, Rwanda called Snoeks' Kivu haplo

Order Perciformes (Perch-like)

• Family Centropomidae (Snooks)
  • Centropomus ensiferus
  • Centropomus parallelus
  • Centropomus undecimalis -- common snook

• Family Gempylidae (Snake Mackerels)
  • Thyrsites atun -- Native to the Southern Hemisphere and named snoek or Cape snoek in South Africa, Great Britain and the United States, while in Australia and New Zealand 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 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 bottersnoek in South Africa and Namibia

Order Anguilliformes (eels and morays)

• Family Muraenesocidae (Pike congers)
  • Muraenesox bagio -- known in South Africa as the Snoekpaling

References

Fishbase

1. ^ Oxford English Dictionary, entries "snoek" and "snook")

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