| Temperate perches Temporal range:
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| Percichthys trucha | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Actinopterygii |
| Order: | Perciformes |
| Superfamily: | Percoidea |
| Family: | Percichthyidae D. S. Jordan & C. H. Eigenmann, 1890[1] |
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| Synonyms | |
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Gadopsidae | |
The members of the family Percichthyidae are known as the temperate perches. They belong to the order Perciformes, the perch-like fishes.
The name Percichthyidae derives from the Latin perca for perch and Ancient Greek ἰχθύς, ichthys for fish.
- ^ Richard van der Laan; William N. Eschmeyer & Ronald Fricke (2014). "Family-group names of Recent fishes". Zootaxa. 3882 (2): 001–230.
- ^ Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.). "Family Percichthyidae". FishBase. December 2019 version.