- butterfish, stromateid fish, stromateid - small marine fish with a short smooth-scaled compressed body and feeble spines
--1 is a kind of percoid fish, percoid, percoidean
--1 is a member of Stromateidae, family Stromateidae
--1 has parts: butterfish
--1 has particulars:dollarfish, Poronotus triacanthus; palometa, California pompano, Palometa simillima; harvestfish, Paprilus alepidotus; driftfish; driftfish; barrelfish, black rudderfish, Hyperglyphe perciformis