Pseudopercis

Pseudopercis
Pseudopercis numida
Pseudopercis semifasciata
Scientific classification
Kingdom:Animalia
Phylum:Chordata
Class:Actinopterygii
Order:Trachiniformes
Family:Pinguipedidae
Genus:Pseudopercis
Miranda Ribeiro, 1903[1]
Type species
Pseudopercis numida
Miranda Ribeiro, 1903

Pseudopercis is a genus of bony fish which are part of the family Pinguipedidae, the sandperches. They are from the coastal waters of South America and are distinguished from other Neotropical sandperches in their more robust heads and bodies.[2]

Species

There are two recognised species in the genus Pseudopercis:[3]

  • Pseudopercis numida Miranda Ribeiro, 1903 - Namorado sandperch
  • Pseudopercis semifasciata (Cuvier, 1829) - Argentinian sandperch

References

  1. ↑ WoRMS (2014). Bailly N, ed. "Pseudopercis Miranda Ribeiro, 1903". FishBase. World Register of Marine Species. Retrieved 19 June 2018.
  2. ↑ Ierecê L. Rosa & Ricardo S. Rosa (1997). "Systematic revision of the South American species of Pinguipedidae (Teleostei, Trachinoidei)". Revista Brasileira de Zoologia. 14 (4): 845–865.
  3. ↑ Froese, Rainer, and Daniel Pauly, eds. (2018). Species of Pseudopercis in FishBase. February 2018 version.
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