Snook, Snooks, or Snoek may refer to:

Fishes

* Family

Centropomidae ''Centropomus'' is a genus of predominantly marine fish comprising the family Centropomidae. The type species is ''Centropomus undecimalis'', the common snook. Commonly known as snooks or ''róbalos'', the ''Centropomus'' species are native to t ...

(snooks) **

Common snook The common snook (''Centropomus undecimalis'') is a species of Seawater, marine fish in the family (biology), family Centropomidae of the order (biology), order Perciformes. The common snook is also known as the sergeant fish or robalo. It was o ...

* Family

Esocidae Esocidae is a family of fish in the order Esociformes, which contains pike, pickerel, and mudminnows. While the family traditionally only contained the genus ''Esox'', recent genetic and paleontological research have recovered ''Novumbra'' and ' ...

(pikes) ** '' Haplochromis insidiae'' **

Northern pike The northern pike (''Esox lucius'') is a species of carnivorous fish of the genus '' Esox'' (the pikes). They are typical of brackish and fresh waters of the Northern Hemisphere (''i.e.'' holarctic in distribution). They are known simply as a ...

* Family

Gempylidae The Gempylidae are a family of perciform fishes commonly known as snake mackerels or escolars. The family includes about 25 species. They are elongated fishes with a similar appearance to barracudas, having a long dorsal fin, usually with one or ...

(snake mackerels) ** Blacksail snake mackerel or black snoek ** ''

Thyrsites ''Thyrsites atun'' (Bengt Anders Euphrasén, Euphrasén, 1791), the snoek, is a long, thin species of Gempylidae, snake mackerel found in the seas of the Southern Hemisphere, and a popular food fish in South Africa, particularly along the west ...

'' ("snoek", popular in the Cape region of South Africa, this was also consumed in the United Kingdom during World War II) * Family

Muraenesocidae The Muraenesocidae, or pike congers, are a small family of marine eels found worldwide in tropical and subtropical seas. Some species are known to enter brackish water. Pike congers have cylindrical bodies, scaleless skin, narrow heads with large ...

(pike congers) **

Pike eel The Muraenesocidae, or pike congers, are a small family of marine eels found worldwide in tropical and subtropical seas. Some species are known to enter brackish water. Pike congers have cylindrical bodies, scaleless skin, narrow heads with larg ...

* Family

Percidae The Percidae are a family of ray-finned fish, part of the order Perciformes, which are found in fresh and brackish waters of the Northern Hemisphere. The majority are Nearctic, but there are also Palearctic species. The family contains more than ...

(perches) * Family

Scombridae The mackerel, tuna, and bonito family, Scombridae, includes many of the most important and familiar food fishes. The family consists of 51 species in 15 genera and two subfamilies. All species are in the subfamily Scombrinae, except the butterfly ...

(mackerels, tunas, bonitos), subfamily: Scombrinae **

Kanadi kingfish The Kanadi kingfish (''Scomberomorus plurilineatus'') is a species of ray-finned bony fish in the family Scombridae, the mackerel family. Also known as the Kanadi seerfish, queen mackerel, or spotted mackerel, it is found in subtropical waters of ...

Narrow-barred Spanish mackerel The narrow-barred Spanish mackerel (''Scomberomorus commerson'') is a mackerel of the family Scombridae found in a wide-ranging area in Southeast Asia, but as far west as the east coast of Africa and from the Middle East and along the northern coa ...

, ''Scomberomorus commerson'' *

Barracuda A barracuda, or cuda for short, is a large, predatory, ray-finned fish known for its fearsome appearance and ferocious behaviour. The barracuda is a saltwater fish of the genus ''Sphyraena'', the only genus in the family Sphyraenidae, which was ...

Australian barracuda The Australian barracuda, arrow barracuda, Australian sea pike, sea pike, snook, or shortfin barracuda, ''Sphyraena novaehollandiae'', is a barracuda of the genus '' Sphyraena'' which occurs in the south-western Pacific Ocean. Description The Au ...

, ''Sphyraena novaehollandiae'' *

Cutlassfish The cutlassfishes are about 45 species of predatory fish in the family Trichiuridae of the order Scombriformes found in seas throughout the world. Fish of this family are long, slender, and generally steely blue or silver in colour, giving rise ...

Silver scabbardfish The silver scabbardfish (''Lepidopus caudatus''), also known as the frostfish or beltfish is a benthopelagic cutlassfish of the family Family (from la, familia) is a Social group, group of people related either by consanguinity (by recogniz ...

* ''

Petenia splendida ''Petenia splendida'', the bay snook, is a species of cichlid from Mexico and northern Central America. It is important to local commercial fisheries. Description This piscivorous species can reach a length of SL. These fishes have a laterall ...

'', bay snook *

Southern sennet The southern sennet (''Sphyraena picudilla'') is an ocean-going species of game fish in the barracuda family, Sphyraenidae. It was described by the Cuban zoologist Felipe Poey. The description was part of a two-volume work, which Poey published ...

, ''Sphyraena picudilla'' * Snook shark or Caribbean sharpnose shark, ''Rhizoprionodon porosus''

Places

United States

Rancho San Bernardo (Snook) Rancho San Bernardo was a Mexican land grant in present-day San Diego County, California with two square leagues given in 1842 by Governor Juan B. Alvarado and an additional two square leagues given in 1845 by Governor Pío Pico to José Franci ...

, a Mexican land grant in present-day San Diego County, California *

Snook, Pennsylvania Snook is an unincorporated community in Decatur Township, Mifflin County, Pennsylvania Pennsylvania (; ( Pennsylvania Dutch: )), officially the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, is a state spanning the Mid-Atlantic, Northeastern, Appalach ...

, an unincorporated community *

Snook, Texas Snook is a city in Burleson County, Texas, United States. The population was 506 at the 2020 census. Snook is home to Frank Sodolak of Sodolak's Original Country Inn, the inventor and first known restaurant to serve chicken fried bacon. Snook is ...

, a city

People

Snook (surname) Snook is an English surname. The surname is of Old English origin, and is a topographical name, denoting someone who lived on a projecting piece of land. The etymology of ''snook'' is the Old English pre-7th century word "snoc", the Middle English ...

, multiple people with this name, or variations Snooks, Snookes etc. *

Snoek (surname) Snoek is a Dutch surname. Meaning " pike" in Dutch, it may be a metaphorical name or metonymic occupational surname (referring to a fisherman). However, in Zeeland ''Snoek'' was also a common given name in the Middle Ages and the name may be pat ...

, multiple people with this name, or variations Snoeck, Snoeks etc.

Art, entertainment, and media

Fictional entities

* A fictional sloth and the main character in the children's television show ''

It's a Big Big World ''It's a Big Big World'' is an American children's television series that aired on PBS Kids from January 2, 2006, to January 8, 2010. The series was created by Mitchell Kriegman, the creator of the Muppet television series, ''Bear in the Big ...

'' * A skunk who is a one-shot character in the episode "Smellorama" on ''

Bear in the Big Blue House ''Bear in the Big Blue House'' is an American children's television series created by Mitchell Kriegman and produced by Jim Henson Television for Disney Channel's Playhouse Disney preschool television block. Debuting on October 20, 1997, it aire ...

Music

Snook (band) Snook () is a Swedish rap group from Stockholm. The group consists of Oskar "Kihlen" Linnros and Daniel "Danne" Adams-Ray. The group often makes fun of traditional rap and tries to reinvent it. They have released two full-length albums and se ...

, a rap group based in Sweden

Transportation

* Audi Snook, a single-wheeled concept vehicle * USS ''Snook'', United States Navy ships {{disambiguation, fish, surname