| Wreckfish | |
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| Atlantic wreckfish, Polyprion americanus | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Actinopterygii |
| Order: | Perciformes |
| Superfamily: | Percoidea |
| Family: | Polyprionidae Bleeker, 1874[1] |
| Genera | |
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The wreckfish are a family, Polyprionidae in the suborder Percoidei of the order Perciformes.[2]
They are deep-water marine fish and can be found on the ocean bottom, where they inhabit caves and shipwrecks (thus their common name).[3] Their scientific name is from Greek poly meaning "many" and prion meaning "saw", a reference to their prominent spiny fins.[4]
Atlantic wreckfish (Polyprion americanus) are a long-lived commercial species in the Mediterranean, the south-eastern Pacific and the Atlantic Ocean.[5]
Genera
There are four species in two genera:[6]
- Genus Polyprion Oken, 1817
- Polyprion americanus (Bloch & Schneider, 1801)
- Polyprion oxygeneios (Schneider & Forster, 1801)
- Genus Stereolepis Ayres, 1859
- Stereolepis gigas Ayres, 1859
- Stereolepis doederleini Lindberg & Krasyukova, 1969
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References
- ^ Richard van der Laan; William N. Eschmeyer & Ronald Fricke (2014). "Family-group names of Recent fishes". Zootaxa. 3882 (2): 001–230.
- ^ J. S. Nelson; T. C. Grande; M. V. H. Wilson (2016). Fishes of the World (5th ed.). Wiley. pp. 430–467. ISBN 978-1-118-34233-6.
- ^ "Wreckfish". British Sea Fishing. Retrieved 2 April 2020.
- ^ Froese, Rainer and Pauly, Daniel, eds. (2019). "Polyprion americanus" in FishBase. December 2019 version.
- ^ Sedberry, George R.; et al. (1999). "Wreckfish Polyprion americanus in the North Atlantic: fisheries, biology, and management of a widely distributed and long-lived fish" (PDF). American Fisheries Society Symposium. 23: 27–50. Retrieved 5 April 2015.
- ^ Froese, Rainer, and Daniel Pauly, eds. (2019). "Polyprionidae" in FishBase. December 2019 version.