Peprilus
Encyclopedia
Peprilus is a genus
of fish
of the family Stromateidae
. They are known as harvestfishes or palometas and are related to butterfish. There are eight described species in this genus, which are found throughout the Pacific and Atlantic Ocean
s. Species in this genus generally have a maximum length of 25–30 cm.
Genus
In biology, a genus is a low-level taxonomic rank used in the biological classification of living and fossil organisms, which is an example of definition by genus and differentia...
of fish
Fish
Fish are a paraphyletic group of organisms that consist of all gill-bearing aquatic vertebrate animals that lack limbs with digits. Included in this definition are the living hagfish, lampreys, and cartilaginous and bony fish, as well as various extinct related groups...
of the family Stromateidae
Stromateidae
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.-Species:* Genus Pampus...
. They are known as harvestfishes or palometas and are related to butterfish. There are eight described species in this genus, which are found throughout the Pacific and Atlantic Ocean
Atlantic Ocean
The Atlantic Ocean is the second-largest of the world's oceanic divisions. With a total area of about , it covers approximately 20% of the Earth's surface and about 26% of its water surface area...
s. Species in this genus generally have a maximum length of 25–30 cm.
Species
- Peprilus alepidotus, Harvestfish — (Linnaeus, 1766)
- Peprilus burti, Gulf butterfish, Palometa del Golfo — Fowler, 1944
- Peprilus medius, Pacific harvestfish, Palometa, palometa — (Peters, 1869)
- Peprilus ovatus, Cortez butterfish, Palometa de Cortés — Horn, 1970
- Peprilus paru, Harvestfish or Northern harvestfish — (Linnaeus, 1758)
- Peprilus simillimus, Pacific pompano, Palometa plateada — (Ayres, 1860)
- Peprilus snyderi, Palometa salema, Salema butterfish — Gilbert and Starks, 1904
- Peprilus triacanthus, American butterfish or Palometa estrecha — (Peck, 1804)