Pteraclis

Genus of fishes

Pteraclis is a genus of fish in the family Bramidae, the pomfrets. They are known commonly as fanfishes. The three species are distributed throughout the oceans of the world.^[1]

Species

Species include:^[2]

• Pteraclis aesticola (D. S. Jordan & Snyder, 1901) – Pacific fanfish
• Pteraclis carolinus Valenciennes, 1833 – fanfish
• Pteraclis velifera (Pallas, 1770) – spotted fanfish

References

1. Prokofiev, A. M. and E. I. Kukuev, E. I. (2009). Status of fanfishes of the genus Pteraclis from the South-Eastern Pacific Ocean (Perciformes: Bramidae). Journal of Ichthyology 49(8), 688-92.
2. Froese, Rainer and Pauly, Daniel, eds. (2013). Species of Pteraclis in FishBase. February 2013 version.