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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]
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.
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]
An extensive list of the freshwater fish found in California, ... Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License; ...
Designated on January 16, 1981, [4] Gulf of the Farallones National Marine Sanctuary (GFNMS) spanned 1,279 square miles (966 square nautical miles) just north and west of San Francisco Bay, and protected open ocean, nearshore tidal flats, rocky intertidal areas, estuarine wetlands, subtidal reefs, and coastal beaches within its boundaries. In ...
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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 ...
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.