pearl-fish vs percoid fish

pearl-fish and percoid fish both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
pearl-fish	Yes	No	No	No
percoid fish	Yes	No	No	No

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

pearl-fish: found living within the alimentary canals of e.g. sea cucumbers or between the shells of pearl oysters in or near shallow seagrass beds
percoid fish: any of numerous spiny-finned fishes of the order Perciformes

Other hypernyms of pearl-fish include percoid, percoidean.

pearl-fish (noun)	percoid fish (noun)
found living within the alimentary canals of e.g. sea cucumbers or between the shells of pearl oysters in or near shallow seagrass beds	any of numerous spiny-finned fishes of the order Perciformes