Lookdown vs. Moonfish — What's the Difference?

The lookdown (Selene vomer) is a game fish of the family Carangidae. It was first described in 1758 by Carl Linnaeus, in the 10th edition of Systema Naturae.

Any of several carangid fishes chiefly of the genus Selene, found in warm coastal waters of North and South America and having a short silvery compressed body.

A marine carangid game fish (Selene vomer) of western Atlantic waters, having a compressed silvery body with long rays on the dorsal and anal fins and a steep frontal profile.

See opah.

An oddly-shaped Atlantic marine fish, Selene vomer.

Any of various flat, oval marine fish species.

A fish (Selene vomer) similar to the moonfish but with eyes high on the truncated forehead; it was also called moonfish at one time.

Family Monodactylidae (pl=es, pl=es)

Similar to moonfish but with eyes high on the truncated forehead

Mene maculata, of tropical coastal waters of the Indo-Pacific

Most species of genus Selene

(Chaetodipterus faber)

Family Molidae (ocean sunfish)

The opahs in the family Lamprididae.

The cusk (Brosme brosme), a North Atlantic cod-like fish in the ling family Lotidae, the only species in its genus.

The southern platyfish (Xiphophorus maculatus)

An American marine fish (Vomer setipennis); - called also bluntnosed shiner, horsefish, and sunfish.

Any of several silvery marine fishes with very flat bodies

Large elliptical brightly colored deep-sea fish of Atlantic and Pacific and Mediterranean