Macquaria

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Macquaria
Temporal range: Miocene–present
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Golden perch, M. ambigua
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Order: Centrarchiformes
Family: Percichthyidae
Genus: Macquaria
G. Cuvier, 1830
Type species
Macquaria australasica
G. Cuvier, 1830 [1]
Synonyms [2]

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

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Species

The currently recognized species in this genus are: [3] [4]

One fossil species is known in † Macquaria avus (Woodward, 1902) (=Ctenolates avusWoodward, 1902) from Miocene-aged freshwater deposits near Nimbin. [5] [6] [7] Many fossil remains assigned to this genus are known from the Eocene to the Miocene of Australia. However, it is uncertain whether they belong to this genus or to Percalates (formerly subsumed within it). [7]

Taxonomy

Previously, the two catadromous species Macquaria colonorum and M. novemaculeata were also placed in this genus. However, more recent phylogenetic studies have found they are not closely related to the two other species of the genus, and the are now thus placed in the genus Percalates in the monotypic family Percalatidae. [8] [9] 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. [10]

References

  1. ↑ Eschmeyer, William N.; Fricke, Ron & van der Laan, Richard (eds.). "Macquaria". Catalog of Fishes . California Academy of Sciences . Retrieved 14 May 2020.
  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. 1 2 Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.). "Species in genus Macquaria". FishBase . February 2014 version.
  4. ↑ "ESCHMEYER'S CATALOG OF FISHES: GENERA, SPECIES, REFERENCES". researcharchive.calacademy.org. Retrieved 2025-03-24.
  5. ↑ Wales, Geological Survey of New South (1905). Records of the Geological Survey of New South Wales. Department of Mines, Geological Survey of New South Wales.
  6. ↑ Turner, Susan; Long, John (2016). "The Woodward factor: Arthur Smith Woodward's legacy to geology in Australia and Antarctica". Geological Society, London, Special Publications. 430 (1): 261–288. doi:10.1144/SP430.15. ISSN   0305-8719.
  7. 1 2 "Australian freshwater fish fossils with occurrence during Tertiary". www.peter.unmack.net. Retrieved 2025-03-24.
  8. ↑ Fricke, R.; Eschmeyer, W. N.; Van der Laan, R. (2025). "ESCHMEYER'S CATALOG OF FISHES: CLASSIFICATION". California Academy of Sciences. Retrieved 2025-02-10.
  9. ↑ Sanciangco, Millicent D.; Carpenter, Kent E.; Betancur-R., Ricardo (2016-01-01). "Phylogenetic placement of enigmatic percomorph families (Teleostei: Percomorphaceae)". Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution. 94: 565–576. doi:10.1016/j.ympev.2015.10.006. ISSN   1055-7903.
  10. ↑ 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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