Butterfish vs. Pomfret — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Butterfish and Pomfret
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Butterfish
Any of various fishes of the family Stromateidae having tender oily flesh, especially Peprilus triacanthus of the North American Atlantic coast.
Pomfret
Pomfrets are perciform fishes belonging to the family Bramidae. The family currently includes 20 species across seven genera.
Butterfish
Any of various other fishes having oily flesh or slippery skin.
Pomfret
Either of two butterfishes of the Indian and Pacific Oceans, Pampus argenteus or P. chinensis.
Butterfish
Any of various species of fish having a slippery mucous coating, especially
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Pomfret
Any of various edible marine fishes of the family Bramidae, having a blunt head and a compressed, usually black body.
Butterfish
Perciform fish of the family Stromateidae, including the genera Pampus, Peprilus and Stromateus.
Pomfret
A fish of family Bramidae, consisting of eight genera and some twenty species.
Butterfish
A rock gunnel, Pholis gunnellus, an eel-like fish found in the intertidal and subtidal zones of the North Atlantic.
Pomfret
Any of several species of butterfishes in the genus Pampus.
Butterfish
The New Zealand fish Odax pullus, also known as greenbone.
Pomfret
The golden pomfret, Trachinotus blochii.
Butterfish
(obsolete) The Murray perch, Oligorus mitchelli; an Australian perciform fish of Murray river, now known as trout cod, Maccullochella macquariensis [http://www.fishbase.org/Nomenclature/SynonymsList.php?ID=6308&SynCode=26048&GenusName=Maccullochella&SpeciesName=macquariensis], [http://www.fishbase.org/summary/Maccullochella-macquariensis.html].
Pomfret
The black pomfret, Parastromateus niger.
Butterfish
(informal) The sablefish (Anoplopoma fimbria) the sablefish is not a true butterfish; but is called such informally
Pomfret
One of two or more species of marine food fishes of the genus Stromateus (Stromateus niger, Stromateus argenteus) native of Southern Europe and Asia.
Butterfish
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.
Pomfret
Deep-bodied sooty-black pelagic spiny-finned fish of the northern Atlantic and northern Pacific; valued for food
Butterfish
Any of numerous small flat Atlantic food fish having smooth skin
Butterfish
Small marine fish with a short smooth-scaled compressed body and feeble spines
Butterfish
Slippery scaleless food fish of the northern Atlantic coastal waters
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