Stromateidae
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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
    • Silver Pomfret or White Pomfret, Pampus argenteus (Euphrasen, 1788).
    • Chinese silver pomfret, Pampus chinensis (Euphrasen, 1788).
    • Pampus cinereus (Bloch
      Marcus Elieser Bloch
      Marcus Elieser Bloch was a German medical doctor and naturalist. He is generally considered one of the most important ichthyologists of the 18th century.- Life :...

      , 1795)
      .
    • Pampus echinogaster (Basilewsky, 1855).
    • Southern lesser pomfret, Pampus minor Liu & Li, 1998.
    • Pampus punctatissimus (Temminck
      Coenraad Jacob Temminck
      Coenraad Jacob Temminck was a Dutch aristocrat and zoologist.Temminck was the first director of the National Natural History Museum at Leiden from 1820 until his death. His Manuel d'ornithologie, ou Tableau systematique des oiseaux qui se trouvent en Europe was the standard work on European birds...

       & Schlegel
      Hermann Schlegel
      Hermann Schlegel was a German ornithologist and herpetologist.-Early life and education:Schlegel was born at Altenburg, the son of a brassfounder. His father collected butterflies, which stimulated Schlegel's interest in natural history...

      , 1845)
      .
  • Genus Peprilus
    Peprilus
    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 Oceans...

    • Harvestfish
      Harvestfish
      The harvestfish , also occasionally known by a few local names as star butter fish or sometimes even simply as butterfish , is a marine, benthopelagic, circular-shaped and deep-bodied fish classified in the family Stromateidae of butterfishes...

      , Peprilus alepidotus (Linnaeus
      Carolus Linnaeus
      Carl Linnaeus , also known after his ennoblement as , was a Swedish botanist, physician, and zoologist, who laid the foundations for the modern scheme of binomial nomenclature. He is known as the father of modern taxonomy, and is also considered one of the fathers of modern ecology...

      , 1766)
      .
    • Gulf butterfish, Peprilus burti Fowler, 1944.
    • Pacific harvestfish, Peprilus medius (Peters, 1869).
    • Shining butterfish, Peprilus ovatus Horn, 1970.
    • American harvestfish, Peprilus paru (Linnaeus
      Carolus Linnaeus
      Carl Linnaeus , also known after his ennoblement as , was a Swedish botanist, physician, and zoologist, who laid the foundations for the modern scheme of binomial nomenclature. He is known as the father of modern taxonomy, and is also considered one of the fathers of modern ecology...

      , 1758)
      .
    • Pacific pompano, Peprilus simillimus (Ayres, 1860).
    • Salema butterfish, Peprilus snyderi Gilbert & Starks, 1904.
    • American butterfish
      American butterfish
      The American butterfish, Peprilus triacanthus, is a butterfish of the family Stromateidae. It is also known as a dollarfish, shiner, skipjack, sheepshead, or harvestfish.-Appearance:...

      , Peprilus triacanthus (Peck, 1804).
  • Genus Stromateus
    • Stromateus brasiliensis Fowler, 1906.
    • Blue butterfish, Stromateus fiatola Linnaeus
      Carolus Linnaeus
      Carl Linnaeus , also known after his ennoblement as , was a Swedish botanist, physician, and zoologist, who laid the foundations for the modern scheme of binomial nomenclature. He is known as the father of modern taxonomy, and is also considered one of the fathers of modern ecology...

      , 1758
      .
    • Stromateus stellatus Cuvier
      Georges Cuvier
      Georges Chrétien Léopold Dagobert Cuvier or Jean Léopold Nicolas Frédéric Cuvier , known as Georges Cuvier, was a French naturalist and zoologist...

      , 1829
      .
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