Any of several mostly tropical marine scopeloid fish of the family
Synodontidae having large mouths in lizardlike heads, especially the
inshore lizardfish (
Synodus foetens syn.
Synodus poeyi) of Mideastern and Southern United States and West Indies; -- sometimes called
sand pike.
"A freshwater perch, the sauger, a different fish, is also called the sand pike."
[WordNet 1.5]