Snook

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Snook or Snoek may refer to:

• Fish in the family
  • Centropomidae especially the common snook.
  • Gempylidae (Snake Mackerels)
  • Percidae (Perches)
  • Scombridae (Mackerels, tunas, bonitos), subfamily: Scombrinae
  • Sphyraenidae (Barracudas)
  • Trichiuridae (Cutlassfishes), subfamily: Lepidopinae
  • Esocidae (pikes)
  • Muraenesocidae (Pike congers)

• Several other unrelated fishes:
  • Bay snook, Petenia splendida.
  • Narrow-barred Spanish mackerel, Scomberomorus commerson.
  • Australian barracuda, Sphyraena novaehollandiae.
  • Southern sennet, Sphyraena picudilla.
  • Snook shark or Caribbean sharpnose shark, Rhizoprionodon porosus.

Snook may also refer to:

• The city of Snook, Texas.
• James H. Snook, convicted murderer, Olympic medalist, and inventor of the snook hook.
• A fictional sloth and the main character in the children's television show It's a Big Big World.
• Snook, a Canadian comedian.
• Snook, a rap group based in Sweden.

Two ships of the United States Navy have borne the name USS Snook:

• The first, Snook (SS-279), was a Gato-class submarine, launched in 1942 and lost in 1945, of unknown causes.
• The second, Snook (SSN-592), was a Skipjack-class submarine, launched in 1960 and struck in 1986.

References

FishBase

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