The wreckfish are a

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, Polyprionidae in the

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 ...

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 ...

of the

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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 ...

. 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

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''poly'' meaning "many" and ''prion'' meaning "saw", a reference to their prominent spiny fins. Atlantic wreckfish (''

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 At ...

'') 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 ''Polyprion'' is a genus of marine ray-finned fish from the family Polyprionidae, the wreckfishes. Species The genus contains two species: * ''Polyprion americanus'' (Bloch & Schneider, 1801) (Atlantic wreckfish) * ''Polyprion oxygeneios ''Pol ...

'' Oken, 1817 ** ''

'' (

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, 1801) ** ''

Polyprion oxygeneios ''Polyprion'' is a genus of marine ray-finned fish from the family Polyprionidae, the wreckfishes. Species The genus contains two species: * ''Polyprion americanus The Atlantic wreckfish, (''Polyprion americanus''), also known as the stone bas ...

'' (Schneider & Forster, 1801) * Genus ''

Stereolepis ''Stereolepis'' is a genus of marine ray-finned fish from the family Polyprionidae, the wreckfish, which is native to the Pacific Ocean. Species The following two species are classified in the genus ''Stereolepis'': *''Stereolepis doederleini'' ...

'' Ayres, 1859 ** ''

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 ...

'' Ayres, 1859 ** ''

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. ...

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& Krasyukova, 1969

References

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