Wreckfish
Atlantic wreckfish, Polyprion americanus
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
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 six species in two genera:[2][6][7][8]

The Asian sea basses of the genus Lateolabrax have been classified in the Polyprionidae, Moronidae or in its own monogeneric family Lateobracidae[2][8] within the order Acropomatiformes.[9]

References

  1. ^ Richard van der Laan; William N. Eschmeyer & Ronald Fricke (2014). "Family-group names of Recent fishes". Zootaxa. 3882 (2): 001–230.
  2. ^ a b c 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.
  3. ^ "Wreckfish". British Sea Fishing. Retrieved 2 April 2020.
  4. ^ Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.) (2019). "Polyprion americanus" in FishBase. December 2019 version.
  5. ^ 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.
  6. ^ Froese, Rainer, and Daniel Pauly, eds. (2019). "Polyprionidae" in FishBase. December 2019 version.
  7. ^ Eschmeyer, William N.; Fricke, Ron & van der Laan, Richard (eds.). "Genera in the family Polyprionidae". Catalog of Fishes. California Academy of Sciences. Retrieved 31 March 2023.
  8. ^ a b Eschmeyer, William N.; Fricke, Ron & van der Laan, Richard (eds.). "Genera in the family Lateolabricidae". Catalog of Fishes. California Academy of Sciences. Retrieved 31 March 2023.
  9. ^ Ron Fricke; William Eschmeyer; and Jon David Fong (2020). "GENERA/SPECIES BY FAMILY/SUBFAMILY IN Eschmeyer's Catalog of Fishes". Eschmeyer's Catalog of Fishes.
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