The wreckfish are a
family
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, Polyprionidae in the
suborder 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
order 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
Greek
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Greece
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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''
Oken, 1817
** ''
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 ...
''
( Bloch & Schneider, 1801)
** ''
Polyprion oxygeneios''
(Schneider & Forster, 1801)
* Genus ''
Stereolepis''
Ayres, 1859
** ''
Stereolepis gigas''
Ayres, 1859
** ''
Stereolepis doederleini''
Lindberg
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Location
Lindberg lies in the Danube Forest (''Donau-Wald'') region in the middle
of the Bavarian Forest on ...
& Krasyukova, 1969
References
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Percoidei