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 ray-finned fish in the order Salmoniformes, which contains pike, pickerel, and mudminnows. While the family traditionally only contained the genus ''Esox'', recent genetic and paleontological research have recovered ''Novu ...

(pikes) **

Northern pike The northern pike (''Esox lucius'') is a species of carnivorous fish of the genus ''Esox'' (pikes). They are commonly found in brackish water, moderately salty and fresh waters of the Northern Hemisphere (''i.e.'' holarctic in distribution). T ...

* Family

Gempylidae The Gempylidae are a family of scombriform ray-finned 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, usuall ...

(snake mackerels) **

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

or black snoek ** ''

Thyrsites ''Thyrsites atun'' ( Euphrasén, 1791), known as the snoek in South Africa and as the barracouta in Australasia, is a long, thin species of snake mackerel found in the seas of the Southern Hemisphere, and a popular food fish in South Africa, pa ...

'' ("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 larg ...

(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 large ...

* 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 nearly 250 ...

(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 but ...

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

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 is a large, predatory, ray-finned, saltwater fish of the genus ''Sphyraena'', the only genus in the family Sphyraenidae, which was named by Constantine Samuel Rafinesque in 1815. It is found in tropical and subtropical oceans worldw ...

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 Aus ...

, ''Sphyraena novaehollandiae'' *

Cutlassfish The cutlassfishes are about 45 species of predatory ray-finned 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, ...

Silver scabbardfish The silver scabbardfish (''Lepidopus caudatus''), also known as the frostfish or beltfish is a benthopelagic cutlassfish of the family Trichiuridae found throughout the temperate seas of the world. It grows to over in length. Behaviour ''Le ...

* '' 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, between latitudes ...

, ''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 Fran ...

, 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, officially the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, is a U.S. state, state spanning the Mid-Atlantic (United States), Mid-Atlantic, Northeast ...

, an unincorporated community *

Snook, Texas Snook is a city in Burleson County, Texas, United States. The population was 506 at the 2020 census. Geography Snook is southwest of College Station and southeast of Caldwell, the Burleson County seat. According to the United States Census ...

, a city *

Snook House Snook House is a historic residence in Shelby County, Kentucky near Mulberry, Kentucky. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1988, for the architecture. With History The Snook House was deemed significant as a "well ...

in Shelby County, Kentucky * Van B. Snook House in Shelby County, Kentucky

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 patrony ...

, 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 Bl ...

'' * 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 a ...

Music

Snook (band) Snook () was a Swedish hip-hop duo consisting of Oskar "Kihlen" Linnros and Daniel "Danne" Adams-Ray. The group has released two full-length studio albums and several singles. They won the Best Swedish Act at the 2006 MTV Europe Music Awards. ...

, 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 Mi ...

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