U.S. Food & Drug Administration Seafood Products Research Center Center for Food Safety & Applied Nutrition Regulatory Fish Encyclopedia

Genus Sorted by Alpabetical Order, (Taa - Zzz)

Thumbnail	Seafood List (Common, Genus/Species, Market)	Occurence (AFS)	Occurence (FAO)
White Marlin	White Marlin Tetrapturus albidus Marlin	A	Based on Japanese commercial longliner's catches, the distribution of T. albidus extends over most of the Atlantic, roughly from 45oN in the North Atlantic to 45oS in the western South Atlantic and 35oS in the eastern South Atlantic. T. albidus is also known from the Mediterranean Sea, and from Bretagne, France, though these records seem to correspond to a few straying individuals.
	Striped Marlin Tetrapturus audax Marlin	P	T. audax occurs mainly in the tropical, subtropical and temperate waters of the Pacific and Indian oceans. Japanese longline catch data collected over many years show that the distribution pattern of this species within the Pacific Ocean is horseshoe-shaped, with the base of the horseshoe located along the Central American coast. T. audax is occasionally found on the Atlantic side of the Cape of Good Hope (Talbot & Penrith, 1962) and one individual was caught off Angola, West Africa in October 1976, having probably strayed from the Indian Ocean as in a few cases of Tetrapturus angustirostris and Makaira indica. The latitudinal range limits of T. audax, based on data from the commercial longline fishery, extend from about 45oN in the North Pacific to 30oS in the eastern South Pacific and to 45oS in the western south Pacific, as far south as 45oS in the southwestern Indian Ocean and 35oS in the southeastern Indian Ocea n.
	Walleye Pollock Theragra chalcogramma Pollock (Alaska Pollock)	P	Widely distributed in the temperate to boreal North Pacific, from Central California into the eastern Bering Sea, along the Aleutian arc, around Kamchatka, in the Okhotsk Sea and into the southern Sea of Japan.
	Albacore Thunnus alalunga Tuna	A-P (20)	Cosmopolitan in tropical and temperate waters of all oceans including the Mediterranean Sea, extending north to 45o to 50 o N and south to 30o to 40o S, but not at the surface between 10o N and 10o S.
	Yellowfin Tuna Thunnus albacares Tuna	A-P	Worldwide in tropical and subtropical seas, but absent from the Mediterranean Sea.
Bigeye Tuna	Bigeye Tuna Thunnus obesus Tuna	A-P (20)	Worldwide in tropical and subtropical waters of the Atlantic, Indian and Pacific oceans, but absent from the Mediterranean.
	Mozambique Tilapia Tilapia mossambica Tilapia	Mozambique (lower Zambezi R. system) to South Africa (Natal); fresh water to marine, but can be reared under hypersaline conditions.
	Nile Tilapia Tilapia nilotica Tilapia	West Africa, North Africa to Israel, central Africa
Florida Pompano	Florida Pompano Trachinotus caronlinus Pompano	A
	Atlantic Cutlassfish Trichiurus lepturus Cutlassfish	A	Throughout tropical and temperate waters of the world.
Snakeskin Gourami(*)	Snakeskin Gourami(*) Trichogaster(*) pectoralis(*) Gourami(*)	Vietnam, Malay Peninsula; introduced into Sri Lanka
	White Hake Urophycis tenuis Hake	A	Labrador and the Grand Banks of Newfoundland to the coast of N. Carolina. Straying to Iceland in the east and Florida in the south.
	Swordfish Xiphias gladius Swordfish	A-P	Cosmopolitan in tropical, temperate and sometimes cold waters of all oceans, including the Mediterranean Sea, the Sea of Marmara, the Black Sea, and the Sea of Azov. Based on data from commercial longliners' catches, the latitudinal range of this species extends fro 50oN to 45oS in the western Pacific, from 50oN to 35oS in the eastern Pacific, from 25oN to 45oS in the Indian Ocean, from 50oN to 40o-45oS in the western Atlantic, and from 60oN to 45o-50oS in the eastern Atlantic.
	European John Dory Zeus faber Dory
John Dory	John Dory Zeus japonicus Dory