Stromateidae
The family Stromateidae of butterfishes 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 separate family Centrolophidae.
Species
- Silver or white pomfret, Pampus argenteus (Euphrasen, 1788); Synonym: P. cinereus (Bloch, 1795).
- Chinese silver pomfret, Pampus chinensis (Euphrasen, 1788):
- Pampus echinogaster (Basilewsky, 1855).
- Southern lesser pomfret, Pampus minor Liu & Li, 1998.
- Pampus punctatissimus (Temminck & Schlegel, 1845).
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