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

Family Sorted by Alpabetical Order, (Taa - Zzz)

Tetraodontidae (puffers)

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	Bullseye Puffer Sphoeroides annulatus Puffer	P
	Northern Puffer Sphoeroides maculatus Puffer	A

Trachichthyidae (roughies or slimeheads)

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	Orange Roughy Hoplostethus atlanticus Roughy, Orange	Atlantic Ocean, Indian and West Pacific Ocean to New Zealand

Trichiuridae (cutlassfishes)

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	Atlantic Cutlassfish Trichiurus lepturus Cutlassfish	A	Throughout tropical and temperate waters of the world.

Xiphiidae (billfishes)

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	Blue Marlin Makaira nigricans Marlin	A-P	This species is distributed mainly in the tropical and temperate waters of the Atlantic. It is the most tropical of all Atlantic billfishes and probable more abundant in the western than in the eastern Atlantic, judging from the hook rates attained by commercial fisheries in both areas. Its latitudinal range, based on data from the commercial longline fishery, extends from about 40o to 45oN in the North Atlantic to 40oS in the western South Atlantic, 30oS in the central South Atlantic, and 35oS in the eastern South Atlantic.
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.
	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.

Zeidae (dories)

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	European John Dory Zeus faber Dory
John Dory	John Dory Zeus japonicus Dory