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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]
Pampus is a genus of ray-finned fish of the family Stromateidae. They are an important food fish in East and Southeast Asia. In common parlance they are often called pomfrets, although scientifically the term pomfret properly refers to fish of the genus Bramidae. An alternative name for "pomfrets" of the Pampus genus is "pompano".
See text for species. The family Stromateidae or butterfish contains 15 species of ray-finned fish in three genera. Butterfishes live in coastal waters off the Americas, western Africa and in the Indo-Pacific.
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Microcotyle argenticus has the general morphology of all species of Microcotyle, with a symmetrical slender elongated body, comprising an anterior part which contains most organs and a posterior part called the haptor.
The streamlined spinefoot was first formally described in 1825 as Amphacanthus argenteus by the French naturalists Jean René Constant Quoy and Joseph Paul Gaimard with the type locality given as Guam in the Marianas. [3] The specific name argenteus means "silvery", a reference to the silver colour of the cheeks and lower body. [4]
This species complex is made up of the Western Atlantic species, D. argenteus, D. bermudensis D. caudimacula and D. holbrooki. the Red Sea endemic D. noct, the Indian Ocean D. kotschyi the eastern Mediterranean D. levantinus and the eastern Atlantic D. ascensionis, D. cadenati D. capensis, D. helenae, D. lineatus and D. sargus.