Snook Explained

Snook, Snooks, or Snoek may refer to:

Fishes

• Family Centropomidae (snooks)
  • Common snook
• Family Esocidae (pikes)
  • Haplochromis insidiae
  • Northern pike
• Family Gempylidae (snake mackerels)
  • Blacksail snake mackerel or black snoek
  • Thyrsites ("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 (perches)
• Family Scombridae (mackerels, tunas, bonitos), subfamily: Scombrinae
  • Kanadi kingfish
  • Narrow-barred Spanish mackerel, Scomberomorus commerson
• Barracuda
  • Australian barracuda, Sphyraena novaehollandiae
• Cutlassfish
  • Silver scabbardfish
• Petenia splendida, bay snook
• Southern sennet, Sphyraena picudilla
• Snook shark or Caribbean sharpnose shark, Rhizoprionodon porosus

Places

United States

• Rancho San Bernardo (Snook), a Mexican land grant in present-day San Diego County, California
• Snook, Pennsylvania, an unincorporated community
• Snook, Texas, a city
• Snook House in Shelby County, Kentucky
• Van B. Snook House in Shelby County, Kentucky

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

Music

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

Transportation

• Audi Snook, a single-wheeled concept vehicle
• USS Snook, United States Navy ships