Wreckfish

Wreckfish

Taxobox
name = Wreckfishes


image_caption = Atlantic wreckfish, "Polyprion americanus". From plate 66 of "Oceanic Ichthyology" by George Brown Goode and Tarleton Hoffman Bean, published 1896.
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Chordata
classis = Actinopterygii
ordo = Perciformes
familia = Polyprionidae
subdivision_ranks = Genera
subdivision = "Polyprion" "Sterolepis" See text for species.

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 "poly" meaning "many" and "prion" meaning "saw", a references to their prominent spiny fins.

pecies

There are six species in two genera:
* Genus "Polyprion"
** Atlantic wreckfish, "Polyprion americanus" (Bloch & Schneider, 1801).
** Bass groper, "Polyprion moeone" Phillipps, 1927.
** Hapuku, "Polyprion oxygeneios" (Schneider & Forster, 1801).
** "Polyprion yanezi" de Buen, 1959.
* Genus "Stereolepis"
** "Stereolepis doederleini" Lindberg & Krasyukova, 1969.
** Giant sea bass, "Stereolepis gigas" Ayres, 1859.

References

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