perch-like

Although the hotspot has a relatively small fish fauna, with only just over 40 native species, it has a remarkable two endemic families: the mountain catfishes (Nematogenyidae) and the perch-like fishes of the genus Percilia (family Perciliidae).

Biological diversity in the Chilean winter rainfall-valdivian forests 2009

He was bachelor in his arm-chair and his stock of wine; his hospitality was that of a bachelor, for a man who feels instinctively that he will never own a "house and home" constructs the materiality of his life in chambers upon a fuller basis than the man who feels instinctively that he will, sooner or later, exchange the perch-like existence of his chambers for the nest-like completeness of a home in South

Mike Fletcher A Novel 1892

There were two kinds of bream -- one a rather slow-moving fish, with large, dark brown scales, a perch-like mouth, and wide tail, and with the sides and belly a dull white; the other a very active game fellow, of a more graceful shape, with a small mouth, and very hard, bony gill plates.

The Call Of The South 1908 Louis Becke 1884

The second course of the Great Supper also is fish, which may be of any sort and served in any way -- in our case it was a perch-like variety of dainty pan-fish, fresh from the Rhône.

The Christmas Kalends of Provence And Some Other Provençal Festivals 1881

Dick would whisper that a large perch-like fish, or perhaps one of the huge eely siluri, was approaching; though just as often Coffee or

Off to the Wilds Being the Adventures of Two Brothers George Manville Fenn 1870

"Means of defence, I suppose," said his father, raising the keen perch-like back fin of the fish.

Menhardoc George Manville Fenn 1870

The beautiful silvery fish was passed on by one of the fishermen, and the brilliant scales and sharp, perch-like fin of this favourite fish were being examined, when a violent splashing and commotion told of the presence of something larger in the net.

Menhardoc George Manville Fenn 1870

Fish and crocodiles are said to be very abundant in the lake; but with all my endeavours to obtain some specimens, I have succeeded in seeing only two sorts -- one similar to those taken at Ujiji, of a perch-like form, and another very small, resembling our common minnow, but not found in the Ujiji market.

What Led to the Discovery of the Source of the Nile John Hanning Speke 1845

John Murphy caught the small striped perch of the Lynd; and another small perch-like fish, with a broad anal fin, which had already excited our admiration at the Lynd, by the beauty of its colours, and by the singularity of its movements.

Journal of an Overland Expedition in Australia : from Moreton Bay to Port Essington, a distance of upwards of 3000 miles, during the years 1844-1845 Ludwig Leichhardt 1830

_Bishop Fell_ making them snapped at, with a perch-like spirit, by all true Grangerites.

Bibliomania; or Book-Madness A Bibliographical Romance Thomas Frognall Dibdin 1811