tautog

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A fish of the wrasse family found in salt water off of eastern North America from Nova Scotia to South Carolina
When adult it is nearly black, more or less irregularly barred, with greenish gray
Called also blackfish, oyster fish, salt-water chub, and moll
large dark-colored food fish of the Atlantic coast of North America
An edible labroid fish (Haitula onitis, or Tautoga onitis) of the Atlantic coast of the United States
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