Butterfish may refer to: * Stromateidae, found in coastal waters off the Americas, western Africa and in the Indo-Pacific *

Sablefish The sablefish (''Anoplopoma fimbria'') is one of two members of the fish family Anoplopomatidae and the only species in the genus ''Anoplopoma''. In English, common names for it include sable (US), butterfish (US), black cod (US, UK, Canada), b ...

(''Anoplopoma fimbria''), found in muddy sea beds in the North Pacific Ocean * Rock gunnel (''Pholis gunnellus''), ray-finned fish, found in the coastal waters of the North Atlantic Ocean and in the Atlantic part of the Arctic Ocean * Pacific rudderfish (''Psenopsis anomala''), also as Japanese butterfish and simply butterfish, found in the Western Pacific, near Japan, in the Taiwan Strait and in the East China Sea * Pentapodus nagasakiensis, also known as Japanese butterfish or Japanese whiptail, found in the Western Pacific

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