WHATSTHATFISH
Bony fish

Wreckfish

Polyprion americanus

Also known as: Atlantic Wreckfish, Bass, Bass Grouper, European Wreckfish, Hapuka, Hapuka Cod, Longnose Hapuku, Moeone, Sea Rock Perch, Stone Bass, Wreck Bass

Adult
@FishMTL · None, Canada · September 20171 / 1
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Overview

Found singly, or in small schools, often in deep waters, in and around caves and shipwrecks.

Wreck fish are found deep on the oceans bottom and are an important game fish as well as being fished commercially in various countries around the world.

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How to identify

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Habitat & where to find it

  • Range · Worldwide
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Found singly, or in small schools, often in deep waters, in and around caves and shipwrecks.

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    Taxonomy

    1. kingdomAnimalia
    2. phylumChordata
    3. classTeleostei
    4. orderAcropomatiformes
    5. familyPolyprionidae
    6. genusPolyprion
    7. speciesPolyprion americanus (Bloch & Schneider, 1801)

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    More in the family

    Acropomatiformes