Stromateidae

Taxobox
name = Butterfish


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image_caption = American butterfish, "Peprilus triacanthus"
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Chordata
classis = Actinopterygii
ordo = Perciformes
familia = Stromateidae
subdivision_ranks = Genera
subdivision = "Pampus" "Peprilus" "Stromateus" See text for species.

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.

pecies

* Genus "Pampus"
** Silver Pomfret or White Pomfret, "Pampus argenteus" (Euphrasen, 1788).
** Chinese silver pomfret, "Pampus chinensis" (Euphrasen, 1788).
** "Pampus cinereus" (Bloch, 1795).
** "Pampus echinogaster" (Basilewsky, 1855).
** Southern lesser pomfret, "Pampus minor" Liu & Li, 1998.
** "Pampus punctatissimus" (Temminck & Schlegel, 1845).
* Genus "Peprilus"
** Harvestfish, "Peprilus alepidotus" (Linnaeus, 1766).
** Gulf butterfish, "Peprilus burti" Fowler, 1944.
** Pacific harvestfish, "Peprilus medius" (Peters, 1869).
** Shining butterfish, "Peprilus ovatus" Horn, 1970.
** American harvestfish, "Peprilus paru" (Linnaeus, 1758).
** Pacific pompano, "Peprilus simillimus" (Ayres, 1860).
** Salema butterfish, "Peprilus snyderi" Gilbert & Starks, 1904.
** American butterfish, "Peprilus triacanthus" (Peck, 1804).
* Genus "Stromateus"
** "Stromateus brasiliensis" Fowler, 1906.
** Blue butterfish, "Stromateus fiatola" Linnaeus, 1758.
** "Stromateus stellatus" Cuvier, 1829.

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