Polyprionidae
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The wreckfish are a small group of ray-finned fish in the genus Polyprion, belonging to the monotypic family Polyprionidae in the order Acropomatiformes.
Species
wreckfishes
FAMILY
- KingdomAnimalia
- PhylumChordata
- ClassTeleostei
- OrderPerciformes
- FamilyPolyprionidae
Habitatmarine
Observations recorded112,947
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- taxon
- Parent taxon
- Acropomatiformes
- Image
- Polyprion americanus.002 - Aquarium Finisterrae.jpg
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- Commons category
- Polyprionidae
- taxon name
- Polyprionidae
- taxon rank
- family
- Code of nomenclature
- International Code of Zoological Nomenclature
- topic's main category
- Category:Polyprionidae
- taxon common name
- vrakfiskfamilien
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The wreckfish are a small group of ray-finned fish in the genus Polyprion, belonging to the monotypic family Polyprionidae in the order Acropomatiformes.
They are deep-water marine fish and can be found on the ocean bottom, where they inhabit caves and shipwrecks (thus their common name). Their scientific name is from Greek poly meaning "many" and prion meaning "saw", a reference to their prominent spiny fins.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Polyprionidae” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.