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

Family Sorted by Alpabetical Order, (Aaa - Ezz)

Alopiidae (thresher sharks)

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Bigeye Thresher Shark	Bigeye Thresher Shark Alopias superciliosus Shark, Thresher	A-P	Western Atlantic: New York to Florida, Bahamas, Cuba, Venezuela and sothern Brazil. Eastern Atlantic: Portugal, Madeira, Senegal, Guinea to Sierra Leone, Angola; also Mediterranean Sea. Western Indian Ocean: S. Africa, Madagascar, Arabian Sea. Western Pacific: southern Japan, Taiwan, New Caledonia, Australia (northwestern coast), New Zealand. Central Pac.: northern and southern Hawaiian Isles. Eastern Pacific: southern California, Gulf of California and west of Galapagos Isles.
	Common Thresher Shark Alopias vulpinus Shark, Thresher	A-P	Western Atlantic: Newfoundland to Cuba, Gulf of Mexico, Venezuela, Brazil to Argentina. Eastern Atlantic: Norway and British Isles to Mediterannean, Morocco, Ghana and Ivory Coast; also Cape Province, S. Africa. Indo-West Pacific: S. Africa, Tanzania, Somalia, Maldives, Chagos, Archipelago, Gulf of Aden, Pakistan, India, Sri Lanka, Sumatra, Japan, Republic of Korea, China, Australia (Queensland, New South Wales, Victoria, Tasmania, South Australia), New Zealand, New Caledonia. Central Pac.: Society Isles, Fanning Isles, Hawaiian Isles. Eastern Pacific: British Columbia to central Baja California, Panama, Chile.

Anabatidae (gouramies)

Anarhichadidae (wolffishes)

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	Atlantic Wolffish Anarhichas lupus Wolffish	A

Anoplopomidae (sablefishes)

Bothidae (lefteye flounders flounders)

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Pacific Sanddab	Pacific Sanddab Citharichthys sordidus Sanddab	P
California Halibut	California Halibut Paralichthys californicus Halibut (California Halibut)	P
	Windowpane Scophthalmus aquosus Flounder	A
Turbot	Turbot Scophthalmus maximus Turbot	Northeast Atlantic Ocean, Mediterranean Sea

Carangidae (jacks and pompanos)

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	Pacific Crevalle Jack(*) Caranx caninus(*) Jack	P
	Black Pomfret Parastromateus niger Pompano	Indo-w. Pacific o.
	Yellowstripe Scad (*) Selaroides(*) leptolepis(*) Scad	Indo-w. Pacific o.
	Pacific Moonfish Selene peruviana Jack	P
	Yellowtail Seriola lalandei Amberjack (Yellowtail)	P
Florida Pompano	Florida Pompano Trachinotus caronlinus Pompano	A

Carcharhinidae (requiem sharks)

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	Blacktip Shark Carcharhinus limbatus Shark	A	Western Atlantic: Maine to southern Brazil, including Gulf of Mexico and Caribbean. Eastern Atlantic: Madeira, Mediterannean, Canary Islands, Senegal to Zaire. Indo-West Pacific: S. Africa, Madagascar, Red Sea to India, Sri Lanka, Pakistan, Thailand,. China, including Taiwan, Philippines, Java, Borneo, Australia (Queensland, West Australia, North Territory), New Ginea, New Caledonia. Central Pacific: Tahiti, Marquesas, Hawaiian Islands. Eastern Pacific: Southern Baja California to Peru, Revillagedo and Galapagos Islands.
Blue Shark	Blue Shark Prionace glauca Shark	A-P	Western Atlantic: Newfoundland to Argentina. Centrall Atlantic. Eastern Atlantic: Norway to S. Africa, Mediterranean. Indo-West Pacific: S. Africa and southern Arabian Sea to Indonesia, Japan, Australia, New Caledonia and New Zealand. Central Pacific. Eastern Pacific: Gulf of Alaska to Chile.

Chanidae (milkfish)

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	Milkfish Chanos chanos Milkfish	P

Cichlidae (cichlids)

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	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

Coryphaenidae (dolphinfishes)

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	Dolphin Coryphaena hippurus Mahi-Mahi	A-P

Cyprinidae (carps)

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	Tinfoil Barb(*) Barbodes(*) schwanefeldi(*) Carp	Thailand to Borneo