Priacanthidae

plural noun

Pri·​a·​can·​thi·​dae

: a family of small usually red or rose-colored carnivorous percoid fishes of tropical seas having the body short and covered with rough scales, the eyes large, and the mouth very oblique

Word History

Etymology

New Latin, from Priacanthus, type genus + -idae

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