Silver pomfret

About this species

Pampus argenteus, the silver pomfret or white pomfret is a species of butterfish that lives in the Indo-West Pacific, spanning the coastal waters of the Middle East, Eastern Africa, South Asia, Southeast Asia, and East Asia. The species has been reported only twice, one hundred years apart, from the central Mediterranean Sea.

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Where and when

Where it has been recorded

Worldwide

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Best months

Worldwide (open data)

January: 7 records
February: 2 records
March: 1 records
April: 4 records
May: 6 records
June: 10 records
July: 13 records
August: 1 records
September: 6 records
October: 7 records
November: 5 records
December: 2 records

Depth and water temperature

Depth

Mostly recorded at 5–45 m · Deepest record: 45 m

0–10 m: 2 records
10–20 m: 0 records
20–30 m: 3 records
30–40 m: 1 records
40–50 m: 3 records

Water temperature

Recorded in surface water of 12–29 °C

10–12 °C: 1 records
12–14 °C: 2 records
14–16 °C: 3 records
16–18 °C: 0 records
18–20 °C: 1 records
20–22 °C: 0 records
22–24 °C: 5 records
24–26 °C: 19 records
26–28 °C: 24 records
28–30 °C: 24 records

Photos

(c) Biswarup Ganguly, some rights reserved (CC BY) · CC BY · iNaturalist
(c) Hamid Badar Osmany, some rights reserved (CC BY) · CC BY · iNaturalist
(c) Noblevmy, some rights reserved (CC BY) · CC BY · iNaturalist
(c) Ong Jyh Seng, some rights reserved (CC BY-SA) · CC BY-SA · iNaturalist
(c) Navaneeth Sini George, some rights reserved (CC BY) · CC BY · iNaturalist
(c) Wensen Wang, some rights reserved (CC BY-SA) · CC BY-SA · iNaturalist
(c) Ong Jyh Seng, some rights reserved (CC BY-SA) · CC BY-SA · iNaturalist

Names and classification

English: Silver pomfret, White pomfret, Korean pomfret, white pomfret

Names in 5 more languages

Spanish: Palometa plateada, Palometón platero
French: Aileron argenté
Japanese: コウライマナガツオ
Thai: ปลาจะละเม็ดขาว
Simplified Chinese: 暗鯧, 正鯧, 燕尾鯧, 白鯧, 銀鯧, 鐮鯧, 黑鰭

Other scientific names: Pampus argentus, Pampus echinogaster, Stromateoides argenteus, Stromateus argenteus, Stromateus echinogaster, Stromatioides nozawae

Similar species

Chinese pomfret
Pampus chinensis
grey pomfret
Pampus cinereus
Pampus punctatissimus

Sources and credits

Names and taxonomy: WoRMS (CC BY 4.0) and the GBIF Backbone (CC BY 4.0). Photos: iNaturalist observers, each under the licence shown (CC0, CC BY or CC BY-SA).

Depth, temperature, months and maps: records from OBIS and GBIF under CC0 or CC BY.
Descriptions: Wikipedia, licensed CC BY-SA, each linked to its article.
Conservation status as published by GBIF (IUCN Red List).
210 open-data records from 1788 to 2023.
Species data updated November 5, 2026.