Wreckfishes (Polyprionidae)

General data
- Main name: Wreckfishes
Classification
- Order: Acropomatiformes - Oceanic basses
- Class: Teleostei - Ray-finned fishes
- Superclass: Osteichthyes - Bony fishes
Description
The wreckfish are a family of deep-water marine fishes and can be found on the ocean bottom, where they inhabit caves and shipwrecks (thus their common name). Atlantic wreckfish (Polyprion americanus) are a long-lived commercial species in the Mediterranean, the south-eastern Pacific and the Atlantic Ocean.