Wreckfish
| Wreckfish | |
|---|---|
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| Atlantic wreckfish, Polyprion americanus | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Actinopterygii |
| Order: | Perciformes |
| Family: | Polyprionidae |
| Genera | |
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See table for genera and species. | |
The wreckfish are a family, Polyprionidae, of perciform fish.
They are deep-water marine fish and can be found on the ocean bottom, where they inhabit caves and shipwrecks (thus their common name). Their scientific name is from Greek poly meaning "many" and prion meaning "saw", a references to their prominent spiny fins. They stay together in schools of at least five.
Wreckfish (Polyprion americanus) are a long-lived commercial species in the Mediterranean, the south-eastern Pacific and the Atlantic ocean.[1]
The fish is commonly known as chernia in Spanish-speaking Latin America.
Species
The six species in two genera are:
| Genus | Binomial name and author | Common name |
|---|---|---|
| Polyprion Oken (ex Cuvier) 1817 | P. americanus (Bloch & Schneider, 1801) | Atlantic wreckfish |
| P. moeone Phillipps, 1927 | Bass groper | |
| P. oxygeneios (Schneider & Forster, 1801) | Hapuku | |
| P. yanezi de Buen, 1959 | ||
| Stereolepis Ayres 1859 | S. doederleini Lindberg & Krasyukova, 1969 | |
| S. gigas Ayres, 1859 | Giant sea bass | |
References
- ↑ Sedberry et al. 1999, George. Americcan Fisheries Symposium (PDF). 23 http://homepages.gac.edu/~jcarlin/downloads/LifeSlowLane.pdf. Retrieved 5 April 2015. Missing or empty
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- Froese, Rainer, and Daniel Pauly, eds. (2006). "Polyprionidae" in FishBase. January 2006 version.
- FishBase Species List and images. Polyprionidae. Accessed at 2 May 2009.
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