Wreckfish
Polyprion americanus (Bloch & Schneider, 1801)
Also calledAtlantischer Wrackbarsch (deu) · Atlantisk vragfisk (dan) · Bacalao (spa) · Blákarpi (isl) · Cerna (mlt) · Cerna tal-fond (mlt) · Cernia (fra) · Cernia di fondale (ita) · Cernier (fra) · Cernier Atlantique (fra) · Cernier commun (fra) · Cernio Escourpena (fra) · Cherna (spa) · Cherna (por)
Descriptions from checklists and floras indexed by GBIF
distribution
Distribution. Atlantic, Western Indian Ocean and Southwest Pacific; depth range 40 – 600 m.
A checklist of the deep sea fishes of the Levant Sea, Mediterranean Sea
distribution
Distribution. Nearly circumglobal, including Mediterranean Sea; not recorded from Pacific coast of South America or in the North Pacific. Conservation. IUCN: Global (DD: 30 April 2003); Med. (DD: 14 November 2007). Capture and threats: FIT, FIB, Unknown. Occurrence: Rare. Medium priority for conservation action.
The marine ichthyofauna of Lebanon: an annotated checklist, history, biogeography, and conservation status
Polyprion americanus (Schneider 1801)
Polyprion americanus (Schneider, 1801) Polyprion americanus: Golani, 1996; Pisanty & Golani, 1996; Golani, 1997 (Heb.), Golani, 2005, Goren & Galil, 2015.
An updated Checklist of the Mediterranean fishes of Israel, with illustrations of recently recorded species and delineation of Lessepsian migrants
Where it has been recorded
Recorded sightings
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geo-referenced records in GBIF, from museums, herbaria and field observers.
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In the stacks
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Every page naming Polyprion americanus in the Biodiversity Heritage Library →
From the GBIF Backbone Taxonomy and occurrence records (GBIF.org), with Wikipedia and the Source Library. GBIF species 5211265.