# Wreckfish

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{{Short description|Genus of ray-finned fish}}
{{Automatic taxobox
| image = Polyprion americanus.png
| image_caption = [Atlantic wreckfish](/source/Atlantic_wreckfish), ''Polyprion americanus''
| parent_authority = [Bleeker](/source/Pieter_Bleeker), 1874<ref name = VDLEF>{{cite journal | author1 = Richard van der Laan | author2 = William N. Eschmeyer | author3 = Ronald Fricke | name-list-style = amp |year=2014 | title = Family-group names of Recent fishes | url = https://biotaxa.org/Zootaxa/article/view/zootaxa.3882.1.1/10480 | journal = Zootaxa | volume = 3882 | issue =2 | pages = 001–230}}</ref>
| taxon = Polyprion
| authority = [Oken](/source/Lorenz_Oken), 1817
| subdivision_ranks = Species
| subdivision = see text
}}

The '''wreckfish''' are a small group of [ray-finned fish](/source/ray-finned_fish) in the [genus](/source/genus) '''''Polyprion''''', belonging to the [monotypic](/source/monotypic) [family](/source/Family_(taxonomy)) '''Polyprionidae''' in the [order](/source/Order_(biology)) [Acropomatiformes](/source/Acropomatiformes).<ref name = CofF />

They are deep-water marine fish and can be found on the ocean bottom, where they inhabit caves and shipwrecks (thus their common name).<ref name = BSF>{{cite web | url = https://britishseafishing.co.uk/wreckfish/ | title = Wreckfish | access-date = 2 April 2020 | publisher = British Sea Fishing}}</ref> Their scientific name is from [Greek](/source/Greek_language) ''poly'' meaning "many" and ''prion'' meaning "saw", a reference to their prominent spiny fins.<ref name = Fishbase>{{FishBase|Polyprion|americanus|month=December|year=2019}}</ref>

Atlantic wreckfish (''[Polyprion americanus](/source/Polyprion_americanus)'') are a long-lived commercial species in the Mediterranean, the south-eastern Pacific and the Atlantic Ocean.<ref name="Sedberry et al. 1999">{{cite journal|last1=Sedberry |first1=George R. |display-authors=etal |year=1999 |title=Wreckfish ''Polyprion americanus'' in the North Atlantic: fisheries, biology, and management of a widely distributed and long-lived fish |journal=American Fisheries Society Symposium |volume=23 |pages=27–50 |url=http://homepages.gac.edu/~jcarlin/downloads/LifeSlowLane.pdf |access-date=5 April 2015}}</ref>

== Taxonomy ==
There are two species:<ref name = FishBase>{{FishBase family|family=Polyprionidae|month=December|year=2019}}</ref><ref name = CofF>{{Cof family|family=Polyprionidae|access-date=1 November 2024}}</ref><ref name = CofF2>{{Cof family|family=Lateolabricidae|access-date=31 March 2023}}</ref>

* ''[Polyprion americanus](/source/Polyprion_americanus)'' <small>([Bloch](/source/Marcus_Elieser_Bloch) & [Schneider](/source/Johann_Gottlob_Theaenus_Schneider), 1801)</small> (Atlantic wreckfish)
* ''[Polyprion oxygeneios](/source/Polyprion_oxygeneios)'' <small>(Schneider & [Forster](/source/Johann_Reinhold_Forster), 1801)</small> (Hāpuku)

The genera ''[Lateolabrax](/source/Lateolabrax)'' and ''[Stereolepis](/source/Stereolepis)'' have previously been classified in Polyprionidae, but they are currently placed in their own [monogeneric](/source/monogeneric) families Lateolabracidae and Stereolepididae.<ref name = CofF2/><ref name = CofF3>{{Cof family|family=Stereolepididae|access-date=1 November 2024}}</ref>

== References ==
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Category:Polyprionidae

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