Pampus (fish)

{{Short description|Genus of ray-finned fishes}}

{{Automatic taxobox

| image = Pampus argenteus Saigon market.JPG

| image_caption = Pampus argenteus

| taxon = Pampus

| authority = Bonaparte, 1834

| type_species = Stromateus candidus

| type_species_authority = Cuvier, 1829

| synonyms = *Chondroplites Gill, 1862

• Leptolepis Guichenot, 1867
• Stromateoides Bleeker, 1851

}}

Pampus is a genus of ray-finned fish of the family Stromateidae. They are an important food fish in East and Southeast Asia. In common parlance they are often called pomfrets, although scientifically the term pomfret properly refers to fish of the genus Bramidae. An alternative name for "pomfrets" of the Pampus genus is "pompano".