Temperate perch

Maccullochella peelii

The family of cod perch ( Percichthyidae ) consists of 11 genera 30 species. You live in Australia, Chile and Argentina ( Percichthys ) and East Asia ( Coreoperca, Siniperca ) in fresh water, rarely in brackish water.

Features

The animals have a typical shape with perch coalesced dorsal fins, which can be separated by an incision. Their scales are comb scales, with simple needle-like spines on the rear end or secondary roundhouse.

  • Fins formula: Dorsal VII -XII (I- III at Gadopsis bispinosus ) / 8-38, Anal III/3-20 (16-20 at Gadopsis )
  • Vertebrae 25-36 (40-50 in Gadopsis )

Cod perch are 6 centimeters to 1.8 meters long. Some species are threatened with extinction.

Genera and species

  • Genus Bostockia Castelnau, 1873 Bostockia porosa ( Castelnau, 1873)
  • Edelia vittata ( Castelnau, 1873)
  • Gadopsis marmoratus ( Richardson, 1848)
  • Guyu wujalwujalensis ( Pusey & Kennard, 2001)
  • Maccullochella Ikei ( Rowland, 1986)
  • Maccullochella macquariensis ( Cuvier, 1829)
  • Maccullochella mariensis Rowland, 1993
  • Maccullochella peelii ( Mitchell, 1838)
  • Macquaria ambigua ( Richardson, 1845)
  • Macquaria australasica ( Cuvier, 1830)
  • Nannatherina balsoni ( Regan, 1906)
  • Nannoperca australis ( Günther, 1861)
  • Nannoperca obscura ( Klunzinger, 1872)
  • Nannoperca oxleyana ( Whitley, 1940)
  • Nannoperca pygmaea Morgan, Beatty & Adams, 2013
  • Nannoperca variagata ( Kuiter & Allen, 1986)
  • Percalates colonorum ( Günther, 1863)
  • Percalates novemaculeata ( Steindachner, 1866)
  • Percichthys chilensis ( Girard, 1855)
  • Percichthys colhuapiensis ( MacDonagh, 1955)
  • Percichthys laevis ( Jenyns, 1840)
  • Percichthys melanops ( Girard, 1855)
  • Percichthys trucha ( Valenciennes, 1833)
  • Coreoperca herzi ( Heart Stone, 1896)
  • Coreoperca kawamebari ( Temminck y Schlegel, 1843)
  • Coreoperca loona ( Wu, 1939)
  • Coreoperca whiteheadi ( Boulenger, 1900)
  • Siniperca chuatsi ( Basilewsky, 1855)
  • Siniperca fortis (Lin, 1932)
  • Siniperca kneri ( Garman, 1912)
  • Siniperca liuzhouensis ( Zhou, Kong & Zhu, 1987)
  • Siniperca obscura ( Nichols, 1930)
  • Siniperca roulei have been found ( Wu, 1930)
  • Siniperca scherzeri ( Steindachner, 1892)
  • Siniperca undulata (Fang & Chong, 1932)
  • Siniperca vietnamensis (May, 1978)

According to some scholars, the Asian genera Coreoperca and Siniperca into its own family, the Sinipercidae should be provided. Some authors, however, the Chilean Südbarsche ( Percilia ) are placed in the family.

Fossil record

With Percichthys antiquus and Santosius antiquus from the Miocene of Taubaté (Brazil), and a representative of the genus Macquaria from the Eocene of Queensland are represented Percichthyidae the fossil.

Acanthomorpha Fish fin Murray cod Digital Object Identifier Joseph S. Nelson FishBase
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