''Stromateus'' is a
genus
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of
bony fish from the butterfish
family
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Stromateidae, of which it is the type genus.
Species
There are three species within the genus ''Stromateus'':
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Stromateus brasiliensis''
Fowler, 1906 (Southwest Atlantic butterfish)
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Stromateus fiatola''
Linnaeus
Carl Linnaeus (; 23 May 1707 – 10 January 1778), also known after his ennoblement in 1761 as Carl von Linné Blunt (2004), p. 171. (), was a Swedish botanist, zoologist, taxonomist, and physician who formalised binomial nomenclature, the ...
, 1758 (blue butterfish)
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Stromateus stellatus''
Cuvier, 1829 (starry butterfish)
References
Stromateidae
Taxa named by Carl Linnaeus
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