10-12-2009, 08:11 PM
The pizza does sound enticing, but I'm going to follow dina off the rails..
Butterfish is a name that is given to more than one species of fish (and even one fish even has two different binomial nomenclature (scientific) names, something that happens more times than you may think in the fish world.
Many think of butterfishes that constitute the butterfish family, Stromateidae, which has three genera: Pampus, Peprilus, and Stromateus. The most common species of butterfish is classified as Peprilus triacanthus, other common names include sheephead, starfish and harvest fish.
Some call black cod “butterfish”, which is not a cod, but a sablefish, scientific name Anaplopoma fimbria.
Some call escolar, Lepidocybium flavobrunneum , common names include butterfish, oilfish, Hawaiian butter fish; in Hawaii & Fiji it is known as walu, and can also be sold as king or super white tuna, it can also be sold under the name of an entirely different species of fish, most commonly codfish, orange roughy, sea bass.
Some call Butterfish Poronotus triacanthus (Peck) 1800 aka dollarfish, shiner, skipjack, sheepshead, harvestfish, this fish was given a different binomial by Jordan and Evermann, around 1896-1900 Rhombus triacanthus.
And it goes on to some more obscure references.... something sure is fishy with ichthyology!
Butterfish is a name that is given to more than one species of fish (and even one fish even has two different binomial nomenclature (scientific) names, something that happens more times than you may think in the fish world.
Many think of butterfishes that constitute the butterfish family, Stromateidae, which has three genera: Pampus, Peprilus, and Stromateus. The most common species of butterfish is classified as Peprilus triacanthus, other common names include sheephead, starfish and harvest fish.
Some call black cod “butterfish”, which is not a cod, but a sablefish, scientific name Anaplopoma fimbria.
Some call escolar, Lepidocybium flavobrunneum , common names include butterfish, oilfish, Hawaiian butter fish; in Hawaii & Fiji it is known as walu, and can also be sold as king or super white tuna, it can also be sold under the name of an entirely different species of fish, most commonly codfish, orange roughy, sea bass.
Some call Butterfish Poronotus triacanthus (Peck) 1800 aka dollarfish, shiner, skipjack, sheepshead, harvestfish, this fish was given a different binomial by Jordan and Evermann, around 1896-1900 Rhombus triacanthus.
And it goes on to some more obscure references.... something sure is fishy with ichthyology!