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

Family Sorted by Alpabetical Order, (Kaa - Ozz)

Labridae (wrasses)

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	California Sheephead Semicossyphus pulcher Sheephead	P

Lamnidae (mackerel sharks)

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	Shortfin Mako Shark Isurus oxyrinchus Shark, Mako	A-P	Western Atlantic: Gulf of Maine to southern Brazil and ? northern Argentina, including Gulf of Mexico and Caribbean. Eastern Atlantic: Norway, British Isles and Mediterranean to Ivory Coast, Ghana and S. Africa. Indo-West Pacific: S. Africa and Red Sea to Pakistan, India, Indonesia, Korea, Japan, USSR (Primorsk Kray), Australia (Queensland, Tasmania, South and western Australia, Victoria, New South Wales), New Zealand, New Caledonia and Fiji. Central Pacific: From south of Aleutian Isles to Society Isles, incl. Hawaiian Isles. Eastern Pacific: southern California and exceptionally Washington to central Chile.
Longfin Mako Shark	Longfin Mako Shark Isurus paucus Shark, Mako	A	Western North Atlantic: Florida, Gulf Stream off eastern USA, Cuba. Eastern North Atlantic: Guinea, Ghana, ? Cape Verde Isles. Western Indian Ocean: Madagascar. Central Pacific: Near Phoenix Isles and north of Hawaiian Isles.

Lutjanidae (snappers and fusiliers)

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	Schoolmaster Lutjanus apodus Schoolmaster	A	Tropical western Atlantic Ocean as far north as Massachusetts and south to Trinidad and northern Brazil. Rare north of Florida.
	Red Snapper Lutjanus campechanus Snapper	A	Gulf of Mexico and Atlantic coast of the USA extending northward to Massachusetts, but rare north of the Carolinas.
	Gray Snapper Lutjanus griseus Snapper	A/Freshwater	Tropical western Atlantic Ocean as far north as Massachusetts and south to Rio de Janeiro. Rare north of Florida. Common off southeastern Florida and around the Antilles.
Malabar Snapper	Malabar Snapper Lutjanus malabaricus Snapper	North Indian Ocean to South Japan and New Caledonia.	Widespread in the Indo-West Pacific: from the Fiji Isles to the Arabian Sea and Persian Gulf, and from Australia to southern Japan.
	Pacific Snapper Lutjanus peru Snapper	Eastern Pacific Ocean (southern Calfifornia to Peru).	Eastern Pacific Ocean from Mexico to Peru.
	Caribbean Red Snapper Lutjanus purpureus Snapper	A	Tropical western Atlantic Ocean throughout most of the Caribbean Sea from Cuba south to northeastern Brazil. Most abundant on the continental shelf off Honduras and Guayanas; less common around the Antilles where it is confined to deeper water.
	Lane Snapper Lutjanus synagris Snapper	A	Tropical western Atlantic Ocean, northward to N. Carolina and south to southeastern Brazil. Most abundant around the Antilles, on the Campeche Bank off Panama and the northern coast of S. America.
	Silk Snapper Lutjanus vivanus Snapper	A	Tropical western Atlantic Ocean as far north as Bermuda and N. Carolina and south to central eastern Brazil. Most abundant around the Antilles and the Bahamas.
	Yellowtail Snapper Ocyurus chrysurus Snapper	A	Tropical western Atlantic Ocean, extending north to Massachusetts and southward to southeastern Brazil. Rare north of the Carolinas. Most common in the Bahamas, off southern Florida and throughout the Caribbean.
Vermillion Snapper	Vermillion Snapper Rhomboplites aurorubens Snapper	A	Tropical western Atlantic Ocean extending north to N. Carolina and south to about Rio de Janeiro. particularly abundant off eastern Florida, Georgia, the Carolinas and in the Gulf of Campeche.

Malacanthidae (tilefishes)

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	Ocean Whitefish Caulolatilus princeps Tilefish	P

Nototheniidae (cod icefishes)

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	Patagonian Toothfish Dissostichus eleginoides Patagonian Toothfish	Subantartic Islands to Chile and Argentina

Oreosomatidae (oreos)