Biology:Polyprion
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Short description: Genus of fishes
| Polyprion | |
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| Polyprion americanus | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Actinopterygii |
| Order: | Perciformes |
| Family: | Polyprionidae |
| Genus: | Polyprion Oken, 1817[1] |
| Type species | |
| Amphiprion americanus Bloch & Schneider, 1801[1]
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| Synonyms[2] | |
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Polyprion is a genus of marine ray-finned fish from the family Polyprionidae, the wreckfishes.
Species
The genus contains two species:[3]
- Polyprion americanus (Bloch & Schneider, 1801) (Atlantic wreckfish)
- Polyprion oxygeneios (Schneider & Forster, 1801) (Hāpuku)
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Eschmeyer, William N.; Fricke, Ron; van der Laan, Richard, eds. "Polyprion". California Academy of Sciences. http://researcharchive.calacademy.org/research/ichthyology/catalog/fishcatget.asp?genid=911.
- ↑ Eschmeyer, William N.; Fricke, Ron; van der Laan, Richard, eds. "Genera in the family Polyprionidae". California Academy of Sciences. http://researcharchive.calacademy.org/research/ichthyology/catalog/fishcatget.asp?tbl=genus&family=Polyprionidae.
- ↑ Froese, Rainer and Pauly, Daniel, eds. (2019). Species of Polyprion in FishBase. December 2019 version.
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