grey mullet vs percoid

grey mullet and percoid both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
grey mullet	Yes	No	No	No
percoid	Yes	No	No	No

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

grey mullet: freshwater or coastal food fishes a spindle-shaped body; found worldwide
percoid: any of numerous spiny-finned fishes of the order Perciformes

Other hypernyms of grey mullet include percoid fish, percoidean.

grey mullet (noun)	percoid (noun)
freshwater or coastal food fishes a spindle-shaped body; found worldwide	any of numerous spiny-finned fishes of the order Perciformes
highly valued lean flesh of marine or freshwater mullet