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

Family Sorted by Alpabetical Order, (Scj - Szz)

Scombridae (mackerels and tunas)

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	Kawakawa Euthynnus affinis Tuna	P	Throughout the warm waters of the Indo-West Pacific, including oceanic islands and archipelagos. A few stray specimens have been collected in the eastern tropical Pacific.
	Skipjack Tuna Katsuwonus pelamis Tuna	A-P (20)	Cosmopolitan in tropical and warm-temperate waters; absent from the Black Sea.
	Pacific Bonito Sarda chiliensis Bonito	P	Restricted to the eastern Pacific Ocean (Collette & Chao, 1975:fig. 70). Its geographical range includes a northern and a southern subspecies separated by a tropical population of S. orientalis. The southern subspecies, S. chiliensis chiliensis, occurs from Mancora, Peru, just south of the Gulf of Guayaquil southward to Talcahuano, Chile. The northern subspecies, S. chiliensis lineolata (Girard) occurs from off the coast of Alaska (60o16'N, 145o32'W) southward to Cabo San Lucas at the tip of Baja California (22o20'N, 112o27'W) and in the Revillagigedo Islands.
	Chub Mackerel Scomber japonicus Mackerel, Chub	A-P	Cosmopolitan, inhabiting the warm and temperate transition waters of the Atlantic, Indian, and Pacific oceans and adjacent seas.
	Pacific Sierra Scomberomorus sierra Mackerel, Spanish	P
	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.

Scorpaenidae (scorpionfishes)

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	California Scorpionfish(*) Scorpaena guttata(*) Scorpionfish	P
	Rougheye Rockfish Sebastes aleutianus Rockfish	P
	Pacific Ocean Perch Sebastes alutus Perch, Ocean	P
	Brown Rockfish Sebastes auriculatus Rockfish	P
Redbanded Rockfish	Redbanded Rockfish Sebastes babcocki Rockfish	P
	Silvergray Rockfish Sebastes brevispinis Rockfish	P
Splitnose Rockfish	Splitnose Rockfish Sebastes diploproa Rockfish	P
	Widow Rockfish Sebastes entomelas Rockfish	P
	Yellowtail Rockfish Sebastes flavidus Rockfish	P
	Chilipepper (Fish) Sebastes goodei Rockfish	P
	Quillback Rockfish Sebastes maliger Rockfish	P
Redfish (Ocean Perch)	Redfish (Ocean Perch) Sebastes marinus Perch, Ocean	A
	China Rockfish Sebastes nebulosus Rockfish	P
	Golden Redfish Sebastes norvegicus Perch, Ocean	A
Bocaccio	Bocaccio Sebastes paucispinis Rockfish	P
	Canary Rockfish Sebastes pinniger Rockfish	P
	Redstripe Rockfish Sebastes proriger Rockfish	P
	Yelloweye Rockfish Sebastes ruberrimus Rockfish	P
Shortspine Thornyhead	Shortspine Thornyhead Sebastolobus alascanus Thornyhead	P

Serranidae (sea basses)

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	Coney Epinephelus fulva Grouper	A	Tropical and subtropical western Atlantic from Bermuda and South Carolina to southern Brazil, including Atol das Rocas (Fig. 84).
Wreckfish	Wreckfish Polyprion americanus Bass, Sea	A
Groper	Groper Polyprion oxygeneios Bass, Sea	New Zealand, South Australia

Siganidae (rabbitfishes)

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	Spinefoot Siganus vermiculatus(*) Spinefoot	Indo-West Pacific Ocean

Siluridae (sheathfishes)

Sparidae (porgies)

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	Sheepshead Archosargus probatocephalus Sheepshead	A-F
	Red Hawaiian Porgy Chrysophrys auratus Porgy	Australia, New Zealand

Sphyraenidae (barracudas)

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	Pacific Barracuda Sphyraena argentea Barracuda	P
	Great Barracuda Sphyraena barracuda Barracuda	A

Stromateidae (butterfishes)

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	Silver Pomfret(*) Pampus(*) argenteus(*) Butterfish		Present in the "Gulf" and along the coasts of India. Not found in African waters nor around offshore islands. Eastward it extends to Japan, but not to New Guinea or Australia.