List of fishes known as dory

'gilded one') is shared (officially and colloquially) by members of several different families of large-eyed, silvery, deep-bodied, laterally compressed, and roughly discoid marine fish.

As well as resembling each other, dories are also similar in habit: most are deep-sea and demersal.

Additionally, many species support commercial fisheries as food fish.

Most dory families belong to the order Zeiformes, suborder Zeioidei: Additionally, several species of spinyfin (family Diretmidae, order Beryciformes) have been given the name dory by fishmongers.

In British English, the name is sometimes used for the walleye (Sander vitreus, synonym Stizostedion vitreum) – and the walleye's common name in French is the phonetically similar doré – meaning golden or gilded.