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Butterfishes
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Butterfishes

Stromateidae

The family Stromateidae of butterfish contains 15 species of fish in three genera. Butterfishes live in coastal waters off the Americas, western Africa and in the Indo-Pacific.

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3 branches of this family, most-observed first · about 21 known species

Peprilus

genusPeprilus

Pomfrets

genusPampus

Stromateus

genusStromateus

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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 52732.