Temperate perch

Temperate perches
Temporal range: Early Paleocene–present
Percichthys trucha
Scientific classification Edit this 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

Murray cod (Maccullochella peelii peelii)

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.

  1. ^ Richard van der Laan; William N. Eschmeyer & Ronald Fricke (2014). "Family-group names of Recent fishes". Zootaxa. 3882 (2): 001–230.
  2. ^ Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.). "Family Percichthyidae". FishBase. December 2019 version.