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 ...

(snooks) **

Common snook The common snook (''Centropomus undecimalis'') is a species of marine fish in the family Centropomidae of the order Perciformes. The common snook is also known as the sergeant fish or robalo. It was originally assigned to the sciaenid genus '' ...

* 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 ''Haplochromis insidiae'' is a species of cichlid endemic to Lake Kivu on the border of the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Rwanda Rwanda (; rw, u Rwanda ), officially the Republic of Rwanda, is a landlocked country in the Great R ...

'' **

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

* 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 ...

(snake mackerels) **

Blacksail snake mackerel The blacksail snake mackerel (''Thyrsitoides marleyi''), known also as the black snoek, is a species of snake mackerel found in the Indo-Pacific from shallow water to a depth of at least where they appear to prefer slopes on seamounts and ridges ...

or black snoek ** ''

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

'' ("snoek", popular in the Cape region of South Africa, this was also consumed in the United Kingdom during World War II) * Family Muraenesocidae (pike congers) ** Pike eel * 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 butter ...

(mackerels, tunas, bonitos), subfamily: Scombrinae ** Kanadi kingfish ** Narrow-barred Spanish mackerel, ''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, ''Sphyraena novaehollandiae'' * Cutlassfish ** Silver scabbardfish * '' Petenia splendida'', bay snook * Southern sennet, ''Sphyraena picudilla'' * Snook shark or

Caribbean sharpnose shark The Caribbean sharpnose shark (''Rhizoprionodon porosus'') is a requiem shark, and part of the family Carcharhinidae. Distribution and habitat It is found in the tropical waters of the western Atlantic Ocean and the Caribbean The Caribbean ...

, ''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, an unincorporated community * Snook, Texas, a city

People

* Snook (surname), multiple people with this name, or variations Snooks, Snookes etc. * Snoek (surname), 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'' * 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 ai ...

Music

* Snook (band), a rap group based in Sweden

Transportation

Audi Snook The Audi Snook is the name given to a concept for a single-wheeled vehicle (one large wheel countered with 3 counter-wheels) that is stabilized electronically. It was originally designed by Tilmann Schlootz, a German who won the Michelin Design A ...

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