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The wreckfishes are a family, Polyprionidae, of perciform fishes.

They are deep-water marine fishes and can be found on the ocean bottom, where they inhabit caves and shipwrecks (thus their common name). Their scientific name is from Greek
Greek language

Greek is an Indo-European languages native to the southern Balkan peninsula, the language of the Greek people. It forms an independent branch within Indo-European....
 poly meaning "many" and prion meaning "saw", a references to their prominent spiny fins.








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The wreckfishes are a family, Polyprionidae, of perciform fishes.

They are deep-water marine fishes and can be found on the ocean bottom, where they inhabit caves and shipwrecks (thus their common name). Their scientific name is from Greek
Greek language

Greek is an Indo-European languages native to the southern Balkan peninsula, the language of the Greek people. It forms an independent branch within Indo-European....
 poly meaning "many" and prion meaning "saw", a references to their prominent spiny fins.

Species

There are six species in two genera:
  • Genus Polyprion
    • Atlantic wreckfish
      Atlantic wreckfish

      The Atlantic wreckfish, Polyprion americanus, is a marine , wiktionary: bathydemersal, and wiktionary:oceanodromous fish in the family Polyprionidae....
      , Polyprion americanus (Bloch
      Marcus Elieser Bloch

      Marcus Elieser Bloch was a Germany medical doctor and naturalist. He is generally considered one of the most important ichthyologys of the 18th century....
       & Schneider
      Johann Gottlob Schneider

      Johann Gottlob Theaenus Schneider was a German Empire classicist and natural history.Schneider was born at Koilmen in Saxony. In 1774, on the recommendation of Christian Gottlob Heine, he became secretary to the famous Strasbourg scholar Richard Fran?ois Brunck, and in 1811 became professor of ancient languages and eloquence at Breslau...
      , 1801)      .
    • Bass groper
      Bass groper

      The bass groper, Polyprion moeone, is a wreckfish of the genus Polyprion, found around southern Australia, and New Zealand, at depths of between 30 and 800 m on rocky reefs on the upper continental shelf....
      , Polyprion moeone Phillipps, 1927.
    • Hapuku
      Hapuku

      The hapuku, hapuka or whapuku, Polyprion oxygeneios, is a wreckfish of the family Polyprionidae, found around southern Australia, Chile, Tristan da Cunha, and New Zealand, at depths of between 30 and 800 m on rocky reefs on the upper continental shelf....
      , Polyprion oxygeneios (Schneider
      Johann Gottlob Schneider

      Johann Gottlob Theaenus Schneider was a German Empire classicist and natural history.Schneider was born at Koilmen in Saxony. In 1774, on the recommendation of Christian Gottlob Heine, he became secretary to the famous Strasbourg scholar Richard Fran?ois Brunck, and in 1811 became professor of ancient languages and eloquence at Breslau...
       & Forster
      Johann Reinhold Forster

      Johann Reinhold Forster was a Germany natural history of partial Scotland descent who made contributions to the early ornithology of Europe and North America....
      , 1801)      .
    • Polyprion yanezi de Buen, 1959.
  • Genus Stereolepis
    • Stereolepis doederleini Lindberg & Krasyukova, 1969.
    • Giant sea bass
      Giant sea bass

      The giant sea bass , also known as the black sea bass, is a fish native to the northern Pacific Ocean. With its conspicuous size and a curious nature, it is surprising that relatively little is known about its biology or behavior....
      , Stereolepis gigas Ayres
      William Orville Ayres

      William Orville Ayres was an United States physician and ichthyologist. Born in Connecticut, he studied to become a Physician at Yale University School of Medicine....
      , 1859      .