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BLACKFISH, common name for any of several fishes of dark color. In the U.S. the name is sometimes used to refer to the tautog, Tautoga onitis. The Alaska blackfish, Dallia pectoralis, is a freshwater fish widespread in arctic America and Siberia. Other blackfish include a bass, Centropristes striata, of the Atlantic coast, and a minnow, Orthodon microlepidotus, of California. Whales of the genus Globicephala are also called blackfish. |