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The 'wreckfishes' are a family, 'Polyprionidae', of perciform fishes.
They are deep-water marine fishes and can be found on the ocean bottom, where they inhabit caves and shipwrecks (thus their common name). Their scientific name is from Greek ''poly'' meaning "many" and ''prion'' meaning "saw", a references to their prominent spiny fins.

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Species

There are six species in two genera:

★ Genus ''Polyprion''

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★ Atlantic wreckfish, ''Polyprion americanus'' (Bloch & Schneider, 1801).

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★ Bass groper, ''Polyprion moeone'' Phillipps, 1927.

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★ Hapuku, ''Polyprion oxygeneios'' (Schneider & Forster, 1801).

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★ ''Polyprion yanezi'' de Buen, 1959.

★ Genus ''Stereolepis''

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★ ''Stereolepis doederleini'' Lindberg & Krasyukova, 1969.

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★ Giant sea bass, ''Stereolepis gigas'' Ayres, 1859.

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