Wreckfish | |
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Atlantic wreckfish, Polyprion americanus | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Actinopterygii |
Order: | Perciformes |
Superfamily: | Percoidea |
Family: |
Polyprionidae Bleeker, 1874 [1] |
Genera | |
see text |
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]
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]
Wreckfish | |
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Atlantic wreckfish, Polyprion americanus | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Actinopterygii |
Order: | Perciformes |
Superfamily: | Percoidea |
Family: |
Polyprionidae Bleeker, 1874 [1] |
Genera | |
see text |
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]
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]