Stromateidae

The family Stromateidae of butterfish contains 15 species of fish in three genera. Butterfishes live in coastal waters off the Americas, western Africa and in the Indo-Pacific.

"Butterfish" redirects here. For other uses, see Sablefish.

Butterfish
Peprilus paru
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Clade: Percomorpha
Order: Scombriformes
Suborder: Stromateoidei
Family: Stromateidae
Rafinesque, 1810
Genera

See text for species.

The endemic New Zealand species Odax pullus is commonly called butterfish, but is from a separate family Odacidae. The Japanese butterfish Psenopsis anomala is from the separate family Centrolophidae. The African butter catfish is also known as the butter fish. In South Australia, the Argyrosomus japonicus is commonly called butterfish as well.

Species
  • Genus Pampus
    • Silver or white pomfret, Pampus argenteus (Euphrasen, 1788); Synonym: P. cinereus (Bloch, 1795).[1]
    • Chinese silver pomfret, Pampus chinensis (Euphrasen, 1788):
    • Pampus echinogaster (Basilewsky, 1855).
    • Southern lesser pomfret, Pampus minor Liu & Li, 1998.
    • Pampus punctatissimus (Temminck & Schlegel, 1845).
  • Genus Peprilus
    • Gulf butterfish, Peprilus burti Fowler, 1944.
    • Pacific harvestfish, Peprilus medius (Peters, 1869).
    • Shining butterfish, Peprilus ovatus Horn, 1970.
    • Harvestfish (American harvestfish) Peprilus paru (Linnaeus, 1758).
    • Pacific pompano, Peprilus simillimus (Ayres, 1860).
    • Salema butterfish, Peprilus snyderi Gilbert & Starks, 1904.
    • Atlantic butterfish (aka American butterfish), Peprilus triacanthus (Peck, 1804).[2]
  • Genus Stromateus
    • Southwest Atlantic butterfish, Stromateus brasiliensis Fowler, 1906.
    • Blue butterfish, Stromateus fiatola Linnaeus, 1758.
    • Starry butterfish, Stromateus stellatus Cuvier, 1829.

Timeline
QuaternaryNeogenePaleogeneHolocenePleist.MioceneOligoceneEocenePaleoceneStromateusQuaternaryNeogenePaleogeneHolocenePleist.MioceneOligoceneEocenePaleocene

Mislabelling

Escolar is sometimes fraudulently labelled as butterfish. This can be more hazardous than other fish mislabeling due to the potential health effects of escolar.

References
  1. Fishbase: Synonyms of Pampus argenteus
  2. FishBase Common names of Peprilus triacanthus
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