The family Stromateidae of butterfishes contains 17 species of fish in 3 genera. Butterfishes live in coastal waters off the Americas, western Africa and in the Indo-Pacific.

Species

• Genus Pampus
• Silver Pomfret or White Pomfret, Pampus argenteus (Euphrasen, 1788).
• Chinese silver pomfret, Pampus chinensis (Euphrasen, 1788).
• Pampus cinereus (Bloch, 1795).
• Pampus echinogaster (Basilewsky, 1855).
• Southern lesser pomfret, Pampus minor Liu & Li, 1998.
• Pampus punctatissimus (Temminck & Schlegel, 1845).
• Genus Peprilus
• Harvestfish, Peprilus alepidotus (Linnaeus, 1766).
• Gulf butterfish, Peprilus burti Fowler, 1944.
• Pacific harvestfish, Peprilus medius (Peters, 1869).
• Shining butterfish, Peprilus ovatus Horn, 1970.
• American harvestfish, Peprilus paru (Linnaeus, 1758).
• Pacific pompano, Peprilus simillimus (Ayres, 1860).
• Salema butterfish, Peprilus snyderi Gilbert & Starks, 1904.
• American butterfish, Peprilus triacanthus (Peck, 1804).
• Genus Stromateus
• Stromateus brasiliensis Fowler, 1906.
• Blue butterfish, Stromateus fiatola Linnaeus, 1758.
• Stromateus stellatus Cuvier, 1829.

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