Latidae

Barramundi (Lates calcarifer )

The family of giant perch ( Latidae ) belongs to the group of Carangimorpharia. It was set up in 1995 after it was found that the family Centropomidae, which included the giant perch so far as subfamily, is paraphyletic. This view is not shared in the latest revision of the teleost systematics; Here are the genres of Latidae be put back into the Centropomidae. Giant perch are voracious predators that also have a significant economic impact fishing.

Features

Giant groupers are 45 centimeters to two meters long. You have 25 vertebrae. Your top of the head is pushed dorsally concave. In many species, the two dorsal fins are not completely divided, or among the first, hartstrahligen and the second soft-rayed dorsal fin are single isolated fin rays without membrane.

Dissemination

Seven species of the genus Lates live in Africa in fresh and brackish water, of which four species endemic to Lake Tanganyika, and one each in Lake Albert and Lake Turkana. Lates calcarifer is found in freshwater, brackish water and in the sea on the coast of the Indian Ocean and the western Pacific from the Persian Gulf to Japan and Australia. Lates japonicus lives in Japan and in rivers and the sea. Psammoperca waigiensis lives in brackish water and in the sea from the Bay of Bengal to Japan, the Philippines and Australia, Hypopterus macropterus is only found on the coast of Western Australia.

Fossil record

Fossils of the extinct genus Eolates from the Oligocene and Eocene have been found in Africa and in Europe, in the northern Italian Monte Bolca Formation, which originated from deposits of the Tethys.

System

There are three extant genera, two of which are monotypic, with eleven species. In addition, the extinct genus Eolates comes with three types.

  • Family giant perch ( Latidae ) Moi and Gill, 1995 Genus † Eolates
  • Genus Hypopterus Hypopterus macropterus ( Günther, 1853)
  • Lates angustifrons Boulenger, 1906
  • Barramundi (Lates calcarifer ) ( Bloch, 1790)
  • Lates japonicus Katayama & Taki, 1984
  • Lates lakdiva Pethiyagoda & Gill, 2012
  • Lates longispinis Worthington, 1932
  • Lates macrophthalmus Worthington, 1929
  • Lates mariae Steindachner, 1909
  • Lates microlepis Boulenger, 1898
  • Nile perch (Lates niloticus ) (Linnaeus, 1758)
  • Lates stappersii ( Boulenger, 1914)
  • Lates uwisara Pethiyagoda & Gill, 2012
  • Psammoperca waigiensis ( Cuvier, 1828)
Acanthomorpha Centropomus Lake Albert (Africa) Tanganyika lates Forktail lates Joseph S. Nelson Digital Object Identifier FishBase
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