Stromateidae
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.
Species
- 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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