Stromateidae
Butterfish Temporal range:
| |
---|---|
![]() | |
Peprilus paru | |
Scientific classification ![]() | |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Actinopterygii |
Clade: | Percomorpha |
Order: | Scombriformes |
Suborder: | Stromateoidei |
Family: | Stromateidae Rafinesque, 1810 |
Genera | |
See text for species. |
The family Stromateidae or butterfish contains 15 species of fish in three genera. Butterfishes live in coastal waters off the Americas, western Africa and in the Indo-Pacific.
The endemic New Zealand species Odax pullus is commonly called butterfish, but is from a separate family Odacidae. The Japanese butterfish Psenopsis anomala is from the separate family Centrolophidae. The African butter catfish is also known as the butter fish. In South Australia, the Argyrosomus japonicus is commonly called butterfish as well.
Species[]
- Genus Pampus
- Silver or white pomfret, Pampus argenteus (Euphrasen, 1788); Synonym: P. cinereus (Bloch, 1795).[1]
- , (Euphrasen, 1788):
- (Basilewsky, 1855).
- , Liu & Li, 1998.
- (Temminck & Schlegel, 1845).
- Genus Peprilus
- Gulf butterfish, Peprilus burti Fowler, 1944.
- , (Peters, 1869).
- , Horn, 1970.
- Harvestfish (American harvestfish) Peprilus paru (Linnaeus, 1758).
- , (Ayres, 1860).
- , Gilbert & Starks, 1904.
- Atlantic butterfish (aka American butterfish), Peprilus triacanthus (Peck, 1804).[2]
- Genus Stromateus
- , Fowler, 1906.
- Blue butterfish, Stromateus fiatola Linnaeus, 1758.
- , Cuvier, 1829.
Timeline[]
![](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/timeline/5kxt2uxtds81zohrhycth6wo6nldinl.png)
Mislabelling[]
Escolar is sometimes fraudulently labelled as butterfish. This can be more hazardous than other fish mislabeling due to the potential health effects of escolar.
References[]
- Froese, Rainer, and Daniel Pauly, eds. (2006). "Stromateidae" in FishBase. January 2006 version.
Categories:
- Stromateidae
- Taxa named by Constantine Samuel Rafinesque