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

Genus Sorted by Alpabetical Order, (Aaa - Ezz)

Thumbnail	Seafood List (Common, Genus/Species, Market)	Occurence (AFS)	Occurence (FAO)
Black Oreo Dory	Black Oreo Dory Allocyttus niger Oreo Dory
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.
	Atlantic Wolffish Anarhichas lupus Wolffish	A
Sablefish	Sablefish Anoplopoma fimbria Sablefish	P
	Sheepshead Archosargus probatocephalus Sheepshead	A-F
	Arrowtooth Flounder Atheresthes stomias Flounder, Arrowtooth	P
	Tinfoil Barb(*) Barbodes(*) schwanefeldi(*) Carp	Thailand to Borneo
	Cusk Brosme brosme Cusk	A	Western North Atlantic from New Jersey to the Strait of Belle Isle and on the Grand Banks of Newfoundland. Rare at the southern tip of Greenland. Found off Iceland, in the northern North Sea, and along the coasts of Scandinavia to the Murmansk Coast and at Spitzbergen.
	Blue Crab Callinectes sapidus Crab, Blue
	Pacific Crevalle Jack(*) Caranx caninus(*) Jack	P
	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.
	Ocean Whitefish Caulolatilus princeps Tilefish	P
	Milkfish Chanos chanos Milkfish	P
	Red Hawaiian Porgy Chrysophrys auratus Porgy	Australia, New Zealand
Pacific Sanddab	Pacific Sanddab Citharichthys sordidus Sanddab	P
	Dolphin Coryphaena hippurus Mahi-Mahi	A-P
	Patagonian Toothfish Dissostichus eleginoides Patagonian Toothfish	Subantartic Islands to Chile and Argentina
	Petrale Sole Eopsetta jordani Sole (Flounder)	P
	Coney Epinephelus fulva Grouper	A	Tropical and subtropical western Atlantic from Bermuda and South Carolina to southern Brazil, including Atol das Rocas (Fig. 84).
	Rex Sole Errex zachirus Sole (Flounder)	P
	Kawakawa Euthynnus affinis Tuna	P	Throughout the warm waters of the Indo-West Pacific, including oceanic islands and archipelagos. A few stray specimens have been collected in the eastern tropical Pacific.