| Percopsidae | |
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| Percopsis omiscomaycus | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Actinopterygii |
| Order: | Percopsiformes |
| Family: | Percopsidae Agassiz, 1850 |
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Percopsidae is a family of fish in the order Percopsiformes, with one extant genus with two species, both endemic to North America, and five described fossil genera.[4]
They are small fish with weak fin spines, and an adipose fin similar to those of trout. They feed on insects and small crustaceans.[5]
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- ^ van der Laan, Richard (2016). "Family-group names of fossil fishes".
{{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires|journal=(help) - ^ Murray, A.M.; Brinkman, D.B.; Newbrey, M.G.; Neuman, A.G. (2020). "Earliest North American articulated freshwater acanthomorph fish (Teleostei: Percopsiformes) from Upper Cretaceous deposits of Alberta, Canada". Geological Magazine. 157 (7): 1087–1096. Bibcode:2020GeoM..157.1087M. doi:10.1017/S0016756819001328.
- ^ Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.). "Family Percopsidae". FishBase. April 2012 version.
- ^ Cohen, Daniel M. (1998). Paxton, J.R.; Eschmeyer, W.N. (eds.). Encyclopedia of Fishes. San Diego: Academic Press. p. 129. ISBN 0-12-547665-5.