cichlid fish vs percoid

cichlid fish and percoid both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
cichlid fish	Yes	No	No	No
percoid	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, percoid is a hypernym of cichlid fish; that is, percoid is a word with a broader meaning than cichlid fish:

cichlid fish: freshwater fishes of tropical America and Africa and Asia similar to American sunfishes; some are food fishes; many small ones are popular in aquariums
percoid: any of numerous spiny-finned fishes of the order Perciformes

Other hypernyms of cichlid fish include percoid fish, percoidean.

cichlid fish (noun)	percoid (noun)
freshwater fishes of tropical America and Africa and Asia similar to American sunfishes; some are food fishes; many small ones are popular in aquariums	any of numerous spiny-finned fishes of the order Perciformes