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

Genus Sorted by Alpabetical Order, (Paa - Rzz)

Thumbnail	Seafood List (Common, Genus/Species, Market)	Occurence (AFS)	Occurence (FAO)
	Silver Pomfret(*) Pampus(*) argenteus(*) Butterfish		Present in the "Gulf" and along the coasts of India. Not found in African waters nor around offshore islands. Eastward it extends to Japan, but not to New Guinea or Australia.
Spot Pangasius(*)	Spot Pangasius(*) Pangasius(*) larnaudi(*) Sheathfish	Thailand, Cambodia, Vietnam
California Halibut	California Halibut Paralichthys californicus Halibut (California Halibut)	P
	Black Pomfret Parastromateus niger Pompano	Indo-w. Pacific o.
Yellow Perch	Yellow Perch Perca flavescens Perch, Lake (Yellow)	F
	Starry Flounder Platichthys stellatus Flounder	F-P
	Blackback Flounder Pleuronectes americanus Flounder (Sole)	A
Yellowfin Sole	Yellowfin Sole Pleuronectes asper Sole (Flounder)	P
Rock Sole	Rock Sole Pleuronectes bilineatus Sole (Flounder)	P
	English Sole Pleuronectes vetulus Sole	P
	Black Drum Pogonias cromis Drum	A
	Pollock Pollachius virens Pollock	A	Barents Sea and Spitzbergen to Bay of Biscay, around Iceland, southwestern Greenland, and in the western Atlantic from Hudson Strait to N. Carolina, although rare at the extremes of the range.
Wreckfish	Wreckfish Polyprion americanus Bass, Sea	A
Groper	Groper Polyprion oxygeneios Bass, Sea	New Zealand, South Australia
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.
Smooth Oreo Dory	Smooth Oreo Dory Pseudocyttus maculatus Oreo Dory
	Yellow Croaker Pseudosciaena manchurica Croaker (Yellowfish)
Vermillion Snapper	Vermillion Snapper Rhomboplites aurorubens Snapper	A	Tropical western Atlantic Ocean extending north to N. Carolina and south to about Rio de Janeiro. particularly abundant off eastern Florida, Georgia, the Carolinas and in the Gulf of Campeche.
	Spotfin Croaker Roncador stearnsi Croaker or Corvina	P
	Oilfish(*) Ruvettus(*) pretiosus(*) Oilfish(*)	A-P	Widely distributed in tropical and temperate waters of the world.