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Family of deep-water marine perciform fish From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The wreckfish are a family, Polyprionidae in the suborder Percoidei of the order Perciformes.[2]
Wreckfish | |
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Atlantic wreckfish, Polyprion americanus | |
Scientific classification ![]() | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Actinopterygii |
Order: | Perciformes |
Superfamily: | Percoidea |
Family: | Polyprionidae Bleeker, 1874[1] |
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They are deep-water marine fish and can be found on the ocean bottom, where they inhabit caves and shipwrecks (thus their common name).[3] Their scientific name is from Greek poly meaning "many" and prion meaning "saw", a reference to their prominent spiny fins.[4]
Atlantic wreckfish (Polyprion americanus) are a long-lived commercial species in the Mediterranean, the south-eastern Pacific and the Atlantic Ocean.[5]
There are six species in two genera:[2][6][7][8]
The Asian sea basses of the genus Lateolabrax have been classified in the Polyprionidae, Moronidae or in its own monogeneric family Lateobracidae[2][8] within the order Acropomatiformes.[9]