Sea bass \Sea" bass`\ . (Zo["o]l.)
   (a) A large marine food fish (Serranus, or Centropristis, atrarius) which abounds on the Atlantic coast of the United States. It is dark bluish, with black bands, and more or less varied with small white spots and blotches. Called also, locally, blue bass, black sea bass, blackfish, bluefish, and black perch.
   (b) A California food fish (Cynoscion nobile); -- called also white sea bass, and sea salmon.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Pudding fish \Pud"ding fish\, Pudding wife \Pudding wife\ [Prob. corrupted fr. the Sp. name in Cuba, pudiano verde.]

(Zo["o]l.) A large, handsomely colored, blue and bronze, labroid fish (Iridio, syn. Platyglossus, radiatus) of Florida, Bermuda, and the West Indies. Called also pudiano, doncella, and, at Bermuda, bluefish.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Bluefish \Blue"fish`\, n. (Zo["o]l.)

1. A large voracious fish (Pomatomus saitatrix), of the family Carangid[ae], valued as a food fish, and widely distributed on the American coast. On the New Jersey and Rhode Island coast it is called the horse mackerel, in Virginia saltwater tailor, or skipjack.

2. A West Indian fish (Platyglossus radiatus), of the family Labrid[ae].

Note: The name is applied locally to other species of fishes; as the cunner, sea bass, squeteague, etc.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)