Jewfish
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Jewfish is a term broadly applied to a number of species of marine fish, including:
| Family | Species |
|---|---|
| Glaucosomatidae (Perciformes) | Weststralian dhufish Glaucosoma hebraicum |
| Megalopidae (Elopiformes): | The tarpon (Megalops atlanticus) |
| Paralichthyidae (Pleuronectiformes): | The summer flounder (Paralichthys dentatus) |
| Polyprionidae (Perciformes): | The giant sea bass (Stereolepis gigas); The wreckfish (Polyprion americanus) |
| Sciaenidae (Perciformes): | The Japanese meagre (Argyrosomus japonicus); Black Jewfish (Protonibea diacanthus) [1] |
| Serranidae (Perciformes) | The Warsaw grouper (Epinephelus nigritus), sometimes called the black jewfish; the Goliath grouper (Epinephelus itajara) |
It was also sometimes loosely applied to various other groupers of family Serranidae.
The term red Jew could refer to either of two lutjanids (Perciformes), the crimson snapper (Lutjanus erythropterus) or the Malabar blood snapper (Lutjanus malabaricus).
In 2001 the American Fisheries Society renamed the jewfish (Epinephelus itajara) the goliath grouper out of concern for the potential offensiveness of the name.[2]
[edit] References
- ^ CAAB Taxon Report
- ^ Tompkins, Shannon (05/20/2001), “Strange things happen in threes”, Houston Chronicle: Sports 2; Page: 20, <http://www.chron.com/CDA/archives/archive.mpl?id=2001_3306097>
