Temperate perches Temporal range:
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Percichthys trucha | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Actinopterygii |
Order: | Perciformes |
Superfamily: | Percoidea |
Family: | Percichthyidae D. S. Jordan & C. H. Eigenmann, 1890[1] |
Genera[2] | |
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Synonyms | |
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.