# Prolatilus

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{{Short description|Genus of ray-finned fishes}}
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| image = Blanquillo.png
| taxon = Prolatilus jugularis
|parent_authority = [Gill](/source/Theodore_Gill), 1865
| authority = [Valenciennes](/source/Achille_Valenciennes), 1833<ref name = WoRMS>{{cite WoRMS|title=Prolatilus Gill, 1865|id=270524|editor=Nicolas Bailly|year=2014|db+FishBase|accessdate=19 June 2018}}</ref> 
| synonyms = *''Latilus jugularis'' <small>Valenciennes, 1833</small> 
*''Parapercis chilensis'' <small>[Norman](/source/John_Roxborough_Norman), 1937</small> 
*''Porteridia chilensis'' <small>(Norman, 1937)</small>
| synonyms_ref = <ref name = FishBase>{{FishBase|Prolatilus|jugularis|month=February|year=2018}}</ref>
}}

'''''Prolatilus''''' is a [monotypic](/source/monotypy) [genus](/source/genus) of [labriform](/source/labriform) [ray-finned fish](/source/ray-finned_fish) from the [family](/source/Family_(taxonomy)) [Pinguipedidae](/source/Pinguipedidae). The only species in the genus, '''''Prolatilus jugularis''''', the '''Pacific sandperch''', is found in the south eastern Pacific of the coast of Peru and Chile. It occurs over rocky and sandy bottoms and feeds on  [crustaceans](/source/crustaceans), [polychaetes](/source/polychaetes) and small fish.<ref name = FishBase/>  This species is considered to be good quality food fish and is commercially exploited.<ref name = Rosa>{{cite journal | author1 = Ierecê L. Rosa | author2 = Ricardo S. Rosa | name-list-style = amp | year = 1997 | title =  Systematic revision of the South American species of Pinguipedidae (Teleostei, Trachinoidei) | journal = Revista Brasileira de Zoologia | volume = 14 | issue = 4 | pages = 845–865 | doi = 10.1590/S0101-81751997000400009 | doi-access = free }}</ref>

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Category:Pinguipedidae
Category:Monotypic Actinopterygii genera
Category:Fish described in 1833

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