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Butterfish vs. Pomfret — What's the Difference?

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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