What is "sand pike"

lizardfish \lizardfish\, lizard fish \lizard fish\n. (Zo["o]l.) 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.

Note: A freshwater perch, the sauger, a different fish, is also called the sand pike.

Syn: snakefish.

Sauger \Sau"ger\, n. (Zo["o]l.) An American fresh-water food fish ( Stizostedion Canadense); -- called also gray pike, blue pike, hornfish, land pike, sand pike, pickering, and pickerel.