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Wreckfish

Wreckfish \Wreck"fish`\, n. [So called because it often comes in with wreckage.] (Zo["o]l.) A stone bass.

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wreckfish

n. A perciform marine fish of the family ''(taxlink Polyprionidae family noshow=1)'', often inhabiting caves and shipwrecks.

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wreckfish
  1. n. brown fish of the Atlantic and Mediterranean found around rocks and shipwrecks [syn: stone bass, Polyprion americanus]

  2. [also: wreckfishes (pl)]

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Wreckfish

The wreckfish are a family, Polyprionidae, of perciform fish.

They are deep-water marine fish and can be found on the ocean bottom, where they inhabit caves and shipwrecks (thus their common name). Their scientific name is from Greek poly meaning "many" and prion meaning "saw", a references to their prominent spiny fins. They stay together in schools of at least five.

Wreckfish (Polyprion americanus) are a long-lived commercial species in the Mediterranean, the south-eastern Pacific and the Atlantic ocean.

The fish is commonly known as chernia in Spanish-speaking Latin America.