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Gulf butterfish form large loose schools across the continental shelf over sand/mud bottoms; depth ranges from 2 to 275 m at least, but are most abundant at 155 to 225 m. They are found near the bottom during the day, and migrate into the water column at night. Juveniles are often found under floating weeds and with jellyfish. [3]
Gulf butterfish: Peprilus burti: Gulf chimaera: Hydrolagus alberti: Gulf Coast pygmy sunfish: Elassoma gilberti: Gulf flounder: Paralichthys albigutta: Gulf killifish: Fundulus grandis: Gulf kingfish Menticirrhus littoralis: Gulf menhaden: Brevoortia patronus: Gulf of Mexico fringed sole: Gymnachirus texae: Gulf pipefish: Syngnathus scovelli ...
The American butterfish ranges from the Atlantic coast of North America, from the offing of South Carolina and from coastal North Carolina waters to the outer coast of Nova Scotia and Cape Breton; northward as a stray to the Gulf of St. Lawrence, to the south and east coasts of Newfoundland; and southward to Florida in deep water. [3]
Peprilus burti Fowler, 1944 (Gulf butterfish) Peprilus crenulatus G. Cuvier, 1829 [1] Peprilus medius (W. K. H. Peters, 1869) (Pacific harvestfish) Peprilus ovatus Horn, 1970 (Shining butterfish) Peprilus paru (Linnaeus, 1758) (American harvestfish) Peprilus simillimus (Ayres, 1860) (Pacific pompano) Peprilus snyderi C. H. Gilbert & Starks ...
Peprilus paru, (harvestfish or American harvestfish; [1] syn. Peprilus alepidotus), [2] also occasionally known by a few local names as star butter fish or sometimes even simply as butterfish, is a marine, benthopelagic, circular-shaped and deep-bodied fish classified in the family Stromateidae of butterfishes.
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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.
Cephalopholis fulva, the coney or the butterfish, is a species of marine ray-finned fish, a grouper from the subfamily Epinephelinae which is in the family Serranidae which also includes the anthias and sea basses. It is found in the western Atlantic. It is associated with reefs and is a quarry species for commercial and recreational fisheries.