Stromateidae

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Butterfish
American butterfish, Peprilus triacanthus
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Chordata Class: Actinopterygii Order: Perciformes Family: Stromateidae
Genera
Pampus Peprilus Stromateus See text for species.

The family Stromateidae of butterfishes contains 17 species of fish in 3 genera. Butterfishes live in coastal waters off the Americas, western Africa and in the Indo-Pacific.

[edit] Species

• Genus Pampus
  • Silver Pomfret or White Pomfret, Pampus argenteus (Euphrasen, 1788).
  • Chinese silver pomfret, Pampus chinensis (Euphrasen, 1788).
  • Pampus cinereus (Bloch, 1795).
  • Pampus echinogaster (Basilewsky, 1855).
  • Southern lesser pomfret, Pampus minor Liu & Li, 1998.
  • Pampus punctatissimus (Temminck & Schlegel, 1845).
• Genus Peprilus
  • Harvestfish, Peprilus alepidotus (Linnaeus, 1766).
  • Gulf butterfish, Peprilus burti Fowler, 1944.
  • Pacific harvestfish, Peprilus medius (Peters, 1869).
  • Shining butterfish, Peprilus ovatus Horn, 1970.
  • American harvestfish, Peprilus paru (Linnaeus, 1758).
  • Pacific pompano, Peprilus simillimus (Ayres, 1860).
  • Salema butterfish, Peprilus snyderi Gilbert & Starks, 1904.
  • American butterfish, Peprilus triacanthus (Peck, 1804).
• Genus Stromateus
  • Stromateus brasiliensis Fowler, 1906.
  • Blue butterfish, Stromateus fiatola Linnaeus, 1758.
  • Stromateus stellatus Cuvier, 1829.

[edit] References

• "Stromateidae". FishBase. Ed. Rainer Froese and Daniel Pauly. January 2006 version. N.p.: FishBase, 2006.