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The American butterfish is similar in appearance to its close relative, the harvestfish (Peprilus alepidotus), but can be distinguished by its much lower dorsal and tail fin. This fish is a lead-blue color above with pale sides and a silvery belly. It often has dark, irregular spots. It is generally 6–9 in (15–23 cm), though some ...
Peprilus longipinnis (Mitchill, 1815) 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 ...
The family Stromateidae or butterfish contains 15 species of fish in three genera. Butterfishes live in coastal waters off the Americas, western Africa and in the Indo-Pacific. 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 ...
Adult sablefish are opportunistic piscivores, preying on Alaskan pollock, eulachon, capelin, herring, sandlance, and Pacific cod, as well as squid, euphausiids, and jellyfish. [7] Sablefish are long-lived, with a maximum recorded age of 94 years [8] although the majority of the commercial catch in many areas is less than 20 years old. [9][10]
Peprilus is a genus of fish in the family Stromateidae found in Pacific and Atlantic Oceans. Species. There are currently 9 recognized species in this genus: Peprilus burti Fowler, 1944 (Gulf butterfish) Peprilus crenulatus G. Cuvier, 1829; Peprilus medius (W. K. H. Peters, 1869) (Pacific harvestfish) Peprilus ovatus Horn, 1970 (Shining butterfish)
Habitat. 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.
Butterfish. Butterfish may refer to: Stromateidae, found in coastal waters off the Americas, western Africa and in the Indo-Pacific. Sablefish (Anoplopoma fimbria), found in muddy sea beds in the North Pacific Ocean. Rock gunnel (Pholis gunnellus), ray-finned fish, found in the coastal waters of the North Atlantic Ocean and in the Atlantic part ...
Pampus argenteus, the silver pomfret or white pomfret (or pompano to avoid confusion with true pomfrets of the genus Bramidae), is a species of butterfish that lives in the Indo-West Pacific, spanning the coastal waters of the Middle East, Eastern Africa, South Asia, Southeast Asia, and East Asia. [2] The species has been reported only twice ...