Siniperca

Siniperca
Leopard mandarin fish (S. scherzeri)
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Order: Perciformes
Family: Percichthyidae
Genus: Siniperca
Type species
Perca chuatsi
Basilewsky, 1855
Synonyms
  • Plectroperca W. K. H. Peters, 1864
  • Actenolepis Dybowski, 1872
  • Coreosiniperca P. W. Fang & L. T. Chong, 1932
  • Acroperca G. S. Myers, 1933

Siniperca is a genus of temperate perches native to freshwater habitats in East Asia and northern Vietnam, but the majority of the species are entirely or largely restricted to China.[1]

Species

The currently recognized species in this genus are:[1]

  • Siniperca chuatsi (Basilewsky, 1855) (mandarin fish)
  • Siniperca fortis (S. Y. Lin, 1932)
  • Siniperca kneri Garman, 1912 (big-eye mandarin fish)
  • Siniperca liuzhouensis C. W. Zhou, X. Y. Kong & S. R. Zhu, 1987
  • Siniperca loona H. W. Wu, 1939 [2]
  • Siniperca obscura Nichols, 1930
  • Siniperca roulei H. W. Wu, 1930
  • Siniperca scherzeri Steindachner, 1892 (golden or leopard mandarin fish)
  • Siniperca undulata P. W. Fang & L. T. Chong, 1932
  • Siniperca vietnamensis Đ. Y. Mai, 1978

References

  1. 1 2 Froese, Rainer, and Daniel Pauly, eds. (2014). Species of Siniperca in FishBase. February 2014 version.
  2. ↑ Song, S., Zhao, J. & Li, C. (2017): Species delimitation and phylogenetic reconstruction of the sinipercids (Perciformes: Sinipercidae) based on target enrichment of thousands of nuclear coding sequences. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, 111: 44-55.
  • "Siniperca Gill, 1862". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved 8 February 2011.
  • "Siniperca". National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI).


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