Polyprion americanus
Also known as Atlantic wreckfish, Polyprion moeone, Wreckfish
species of fish
Species
Data Deficientstone-bass
SPECIES
- KingdomAnimalia
- PhylumChordata
- ClassTeleostei
- OrderPerciformes
- FamilyPolyprionidae
Habitatmarine
Observations64
Observations recorded1,490
via GBIF · IUCN
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The Atlantic wreckfish (Polyprion americanus), also known as the stone bass or bass groper (among other names), is a marine, bathydemersal, and oceanodromous ray-finned fish in the family Polyprionidae. It has a worldwide, if disjunct, distribution in the Atlantic, Pacific and Indian Oceans.
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