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Wreckfish
The wreckfish are a family, Polyprionidae in the suborder Percoidei of the order Perciformes. They are deep-water marine fish 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 reference to their prominent spiny fins. Atlantic wreckfish (''Polyprion americanus'') are a long-lived commercial species in the Mediterranean, the south-eastern Pacific and the Atlantic Ocean. Genera There are four species in two genera: * Genus '' Polyprion'' Oken, 1817 ** ''Polyprion americanus'' ( Bloch & Schneider, 1801) ** '' Polyprion oxygeneios'' (Schneider & Forster, 1801) * Genus '' Stereolepis'' Ayres, 1859 ** '' Stereolepis gigas'' Ayres, 1859 ** '' Stereolepis doederleini'' Lindberg Lindberg is a municipality in the district of Regen in Bavaria in Germany in the immediate neighbourhood of the larger town Zwiesel. Location Lindberg lies ...
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Atlantic Wreckfish
The Atlantic wreckfish, (''Polyprion americanus''), also known as the stone bass or bass grouper, is a marine, bathydemersal, and oceanodromous ray-finned fish in the family Polyprionidae. It has a worldwide, if disjunct, distribution in the Atlantic, Pacific and Indian Oceans. Description The Atlantic wreckfish is a large fish with a deep, robust body and a large head with a protruding lower jaw. The two dorsal fins are joined, the first has 11 spines with the final spine joined on to the second dorsal fin, which has 12 branched rays. The anal fin has a short base and has three robust spines. The caudal fin is broad and square. The body is covered with small, firmly attached scales which run up the base of the dorsal and anal fin. It has a large mouth and eyes. The preoperculum has a spiny margin while the operculum has a thick bony strut running horizontally at eye level which terminates in a spine. The back and flanks are dark brown in colour with darker spots and blotche ...
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Polyprion Americanus
The Atlantic wreckfish, (''Polyprion americanus''), also known as the stone bass or bass grouper, is a marine, bathydemersal, and oceanodromous ray-finned fish in the family Polyprionidae. It has a worldwide, if disjunct, distribution in the Atlantic, Pacific and Indian Oceans. Description The Atlantic wreckfish is a large fish with a deep, robust body and a large head with a protruding lower jaw. The two dorsal fins are joined, the first has 11 spines with the final spine joined on to the second dorsal fin, which has 12 branched rays. The anal fin has a short base and has three robust spines. The caudal fin is broad and square. The body is covered with small, firmly attached scales which run up the base of the dorsal and anal fin. It has a large mouth and eyes. The preoperculum has a spiny margin while the operculum has a thick bony strut running horizontally at eye level which terminates in a spine. The back and flanks are dark brown in colour with darker spots and blotche ...
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Polyprionidae
The wreckfish are a family, Polyprionidae in the suborder Percoidei of the order Perciformes. They are deep-water marine fish 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 reference to their prominent spiny fins. Atlantic wreckfish (''Polyprion americanus'') are a long-lived commercial species in the Mediterranean, the south-eastern Pacific and the Atlantic Ocean. Genera There are four species in two genera: * Genus '' Polyprion'' Oken, 1817 ** ''Polyprion americanus'' (Bloch & Schneider, 1801) ** '' Polyprion oxygeneios'' (Schneider & Forster, 1801) * Genus '' Stereolepis'' Ayres, 1859 ** '' Stereolepis gigas'' Ayres, 1859 ** '' Stereolepis doederleini'' Lindberg Lindberg is a municipality in the district of Regen in Bavaria in Germany in the immediate neighbourhood of the larger town Zwiesel. Location Lindberg lies i ...
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Stereolepis Gigas
The giant sea bass (''Stereolepis gigas'') is a fish native to the North Pacific Ocean. Although commonly referred to as a giant sea bass, black sea bass or giant black sea bass, it is actually a wreckfish in the family Polyprionidae rather than in the sea bass family Serranidae. Characteristics Giant sea bass reaching a size of and a weight of up to have been reported. However, in Charles F. Holder's book ''The Channel Islands of California'', published in 1910, the author claims specimens taken from the Gulf of California attained . Aside from its tremendous size, the giant sea bass is also known for its lengthy lifespan. They mature around the age of 11 or 12, around the weight of . However, some of the largest specimens have been known to exceed 7 ft, and are estimated to be 75 years or older. In the eastern North Pacific, its range is from Humboldt Bay, California, to the Gulf of California, Mexico, most common from Point Conception southward. In the northwestern P ...
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Perciformes
Perciformes (), also called the Percomorpha or Acanthopteri, is an order or superorder of ray-finned fish. If considered a single order, they are the most numerous order of vertebrates, containing about 41% of all bony fish. Perciformes means "perch-like". Perciformes is an Order within the Clade Percomorpha consisting of "perch-like" Percomorphans. This group comprises over 10,000 species found in almost all aquatic ecosystems. The order contains about 160 families, which is the most of any order within the vertebrates. It is also the most variably sized order of vertebrates, ranging from the ''Schindleria brevipinguis'' to the marlin in the genus ''Makaira''. They first appeared and diversified in the Late Cretaceous. Among the well-known members of this group are perch and darters (Percidae), sea bass and groupers (Serranidae). Characteristics The dorsal and anal fins are divided into anterior spiny and posterior soft-rayed portions, which may be partially or compl ...
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Percoidei
Percoidei is one of 3 suborders of bony fishes in the order Perciformes. Many commercially harvested fish species are considered to be contained in this suborder, including the snappers, groupers, basses, goatfishes and perches. Divisions The Percoidei are further divided into three superfamilies which contain over 50 families and hundreds of genera. * Suborder Percoidei ** Percoidea *** Centropomidae (Snooks) *** Latidae (Lates) *** Gerreidae (Mojarras) *** Centrogenyidae (False scorpionfishes) *** Perciliidae (Southern basses) *** Howellidae (Oceanic basslets) *** Acropomatidae (Lanternbellies) *** Epigonidae (Deepwater cardinalfishes *** Polyprionidae (Wreckfishes) *** Lateolabracidae (Asian seaperches) *** Mullidae (Goatfishes) *** Glaucosomatidae (Pearl perches) *** Pempheridae (Sweepers) *** Oplegnathidae (Knifejaws) *** Kuhliidae (Flagtails) *** Leptobramidae (Beachsalmon) *** Bathyclupeidae (Bathyclupeids) *** Polynemidae (Threadfins) *** Toxotida ...
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Suborder
Order ( la, ordo) is one of the eight major hierarchical taxonomic ranks in Linnaean taxonomy. It is classified between family and class. In biological classification, the order is a taxonomic rank used in the classification of organisms and recognized by the nomenclature codes. An immediately higher rank, superorder, is sometimes added directly above order, with suborder directly beneath order. An order can also be defined as a group of related families. What does and does not belong to each order is determined by a taxonomist, as is whether a particular order should be recognized at all. Often there is no exact agreement, with different taxonomists each taking a different position. There are no hard rules that a taxonomist needs to follow in describing or recognizing an order. Some taxa are accepted almost universally, while others are recognized only rarely. The name of an order is usually written with a capital letter. For some groups of organisms, their orders may follow ...
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Johann Reinhold Forster
Johann Reinhold Forster (22 October 1729 – 9 December 1798) was a German Continental Reformed church, Reformed (Calvinist) pastor and natural history, naturalist of partially Scottish descent who made contributions to the early ornithology of Europe and North America. He is best known as the naturalist on James Cook's Second voyage of James Cook, second Pacific voyage, where he was accompanied by his son Georg Forster. These expeditions promoted the career of Johann Reinhold Forster and the findings became the bedrock of colonial professionalism and helped set the stage for the future development of anthropology and ethnology. They also laid the framework for general concern about the impact that alteration of the physical environment for European economic expansion would have on exotic societies. Biography Forster's family originated in the Lord Forrester, Lords Forrester in Scotland from where his great-grandfather had emigrated after losing most of his property during the ...
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Georgii Ustinovich Lindberg
Georgii may refer to: ;Given name *Georgii Zantaraia (born 1987), Ukrainian judoka of Georgian origin *Georgii Karpechenko (1899–1941) Russian and Soviet biologist *Georgii Frederiks (1889–1938), Russian geologist *Georgii Zeliony (1878–1951), Russian physiologist *Georgii Stackelberg (1851–1913), cavalry general in the Imperial Russian Army *Georgii Nadson (1867–1939), Soviet biologist *Georgii Cherkin (born 1977), Bulgarian pianist *Georgii Yurii Pfeiffer (1872–1946) Ukrainian and Soviet mathematician *Georgii Stenberg (1900–1933) Soviet artist and designer; see Stenberg brothers ;Other *''Psalterium Georgii'', constellation created by Maximilian Hell in 1789 *''Magnolia georgii'', species of plant in the family Magnoliaceae *''Rhacophorus georgii'', species of frog in the family Rhacophoridae *''Tetrapturus georgii'', see Roundscale spearfish *Russian battleship Georgii Pobedonosets, Russian battleship ''Georgii Pobedonosets'' *Russian ...
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Stereolepis Doederleini
''Stereolepis doedereini'', the striped jewfish, is a marine (ocean), marine, ray-finned fish in the family (biology), family Polyprionidae, the wreckfish. It is found in the northwestern Pacific Ocean off Japan, Korea and the Far East of Russia. The adults can grow to a maximum Fish measurement, total length of and a maximum weight of . References

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William Orville Ayres
William Orville Ayres (September 11, 1817 – April 30, 1887) was an American physician and ichthyologist. Born in Connecticut, he studied to become a doctor at Yale University School of Medicine. Life and career Ayers, the son of Jared and Dinah (Benedict) Ayres, was born in New Canaan, Conn, September 11, 1817. He graduated from Yale College in 1837. For fifteen years after graduation he was employed as a teacher as follows in Berlin, Conn. (1837–38), Miller's Place, L. I. (1838–41), East Hartford, Conn. (1842–44), Sag Harbor, L. I. (1844–47), and Boston, Mass (1845–52). He began the study of medicine in Boston, and in 1854 received the degree of M.D. from Yale College. He then removed to San Francisco, Cal., where he remained for nearly twenty years, engaged in practice. He also served as Professor of the Theory and Practice of Medicine in the Toland Medical College in that city. He removed to Chicago shortly before the great fire of 1871, in which he suffered co ...
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