Bairdiella is a genus of marine ray-finned fishes belonging to the family Sciaenidae, the drums and croakers.

[1][2] Mitchill's B. argryleucus was later shown to be a synonym of Dipterodon chrysourus which had been described by Bernard Germain de Lacépède in 1802 from "Carolina".

[3] Bairdiella suffixes the surname Baird with the diminutive -iella, Gill did not explain whom he was honoring with the name but it is most likely to be Spencer Fullerton Baird, the director of the United States National Museum where Gill worked.

[7] They have an elongate, compressed body with a slender head and a short, blunt snout.

The large mouth is slightly oblique and extends back as far as the posterior edge of the orbit.