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What (who) is butterfish - definition
WIKIMEDIA DISAMBIGUATION PAGE
Butter fish; Butter Fish; Butter-fish; Butterfish (disambiguation)
Butterfish
·noun A name given to several different fishes, in allusion to their slippery coating of mucus, as the Stromateus triacanthus of the Atlantic coast, the Epinephelus punctatus of the southern coast, the rock eel, and the kelpfish of New Zealand.
butterfish
¦ noun (plural same or butterfishes) any of various fishes with oily flesh or slippery skin, especially the gunnel.
American butterfish
SPECIES OF FISH
Peprilus triacanthus; American Butterfish; Dollarfish; Atlantic butterfish
The American butterfish (Peprilus triacanthus), also known as the Atlantic butterfish, is a butterfish of the family Stromateidae.Froese, R.
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Butterfish
Butterfish may refer to:
- Stromateidae, found in coastal waters off the Americas, western Africa and in the Indo-Pacific
- Sablefish (Anoplopoma fimbria), found in muddy sea beds in the North Pacific Ocean
- Rock gunnel (Pholis gunnellus), ray-finned fish, found in the coastal waters of the North Atlantic Ocean and in the Atlantic part of the Arctic Ocean
- Pacific rudderfish (Psenopsis anomala), also as Japanese butterfish and simply butterfish, found in the Western Pacific, near Japan, in the Taiwan Strait and in the East China Sea
- Pentapodus nagasakiensis, also known as Japanese butterfish or Japanese whiptail, found in the Western Pacific.
- Escolar is sometimes fraudulently labelled as butterfish.
Examples of use of butterfish
1. The sweet, flaky flesh of the sablefish, long prized in Japan and Hawaii, is gaining popularity in the mainland United States, where it is listed on menus as butterfish or black cod.