What does "tautog" mean?

A fish of the wrasse family found in salt water off of eastern North America from Nova Scotia to South Carolina (Tautoga onitis).

What is a synonym for "tautog"?

Common synonyms include: blackfish, bergall, black porgy, cunner, tautog fish, tautoga onitis.

/ˈtɔːtɒɡ/ noun

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Noun

1
A fish of the wrasse family found in salt water off of eastern North America from Nova Scotia to South Carolina (Tautoga onitis).
"The fish he found were nothing unusual: cunner and tautog, small fish generally found around pilings or rocky shores, and one weakfish."
2
large dark-colored food fish of the Atlantic coast of North America wordnet

"The fish he found were nothing unusual: cunner and tautog, small fish generally found around pilings or rocky shores, and one weakfish."

Borrowed from Narragansett tautauog, plural of taut.