Percalates

<i>Macquaria</i>

Macquaria

Genus of fishes

Macquaria is a genus of medium-sized, predatory temperate perches endemic to Australia. They are found in rivers and estuaries of the eastern part of the continent.[3]

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Species

The currently recognized species in this genus are:[3]

Taxonomy

Some workers have found that the genus Macquaria is polyphyletic and that the two catadromous species Macquaria colonorum and M. novemaculeata are not the closest relatives of the other two species in the genus and are placed in the genus Percalates in the monotypic family Percalatidae These authors also found that the Percichthyidae and the Percalatidae were part of one of three cladea within a new order, the Centrarchiformes in the Percomorpha.[4]

References

  1. [1]
    Eschmeyer, William N.; Fricke, Ron & van der Laan, Richard (eds.). "Macquaria". Catalog of Fishes. California Academy of Sciences. Retrieved 14 May 2020.
  2. [2]
    Eschmeyer, William N.; Fricke, Ron & van der Laan, Richard (eds.). "Genera in the family Percichthyidae". Catalog of Fishes. California Academy of Sciences. Retrieved 14 May 2020.
  3. [3]
    Froese, Rainer and Pauly, Daniel, eds. (2014). Species of Macquaria in FishBase. February 2014 version.
  4. [4]
    Sébastien Lavoué; Kouji Nakayama; Dean R. Jerry; et al. (2014). "Mitogenomic phylogeny of the Percichthyidae and Centrarchiformes (Percomorphaceae): comparison with recent nuclear gene-based studies and simultaneous analysis". Gene. 549 (1): 46–57. doi:10.1016/j.gene.2014.07.033. PMID 25026502. Abstract


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