Alfonsino

alfonsino Beryx splendens, a fish of temperate waters, especially the N. Atlantic between Madeira and the Portuguese coast, but also parts of the Pacific, e.g. in the vicinity of Japan, Hawaii, and New Zealand. Both it and the nannygai (see below) belong to the family Berycidae. Both are in turn related to other fish of the families Holocentridae and Apogonidae, and share with them a tendency to be called, vaguely, ‘redfish’ (see redfish).