Siniperca

Siniperca
Leopard mandarin fish (S. scherzeri)
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Actinopterygii
Order:	Centrarchiformes
Family:	Sinipercidae
Genus:	Siniperca T. N. Gill, 1862 [1]
Type species
Siniperca chuatsi Basilewsky, 1855 [1]
Synonyms [2]
Plectroperca W. K. H. Peters, 1864 Actenolepis Dybowski, 1872 CoreosinipercaP. W. Fang & L. T. Chong, 1932 Acroperca G. S. Myers, 1933

Siniperca or the Chinese perch is a genus of centrarchiform ray-finned fish native to freshwater habitats in continental East Asia. Although its native ranges can extend to northern Vietnam, the majority of the species are entirely or largely restricted to China. ^[3]

Species

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

• 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 ^[4]
• 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

The following fossil species are also known: ^[5]

• † Siniperca ikikoku Yabumoto, 2020 (Middle Miocene of Japan)
• † Siniperca kaniensis (Ohe & Hayata, 1984) (Miocene of Japan) ^[6]
• † Siniperca wusiangensis Liu& Su, 1962 (Pliocene of Shanxi, China)

References

1. Eschmeyer, William N.; Fricke, Ron & van der Laan, Richard (eds.). "Siniperca". Catalog of Fishes . California Academy of Sciences . Retrieved 12 May 2020.
2. Eschmeyer, William N.; Fricke, Ron & van der Laan, Richard (eds.). "Genera in the family Sinipercidae". Catalog of Fishes . California Academy of Sciences . Retrieved 12 May 2020.
3. Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.). "Species in genus Siniperca". FishBase . February 2014 version.
4. 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.
5. Yabumoto, Yoshitaka (2020-07-01). "Siniperca ikikoku, a New Species of Freshwater Percoid Fish from the Miocene of Iki Island, Nagasaki, Japan" . Paleontological Research. 24 (3): 226. doi:10.2517/2019pr016. ISSN   1342-8144.
6. OHE, F; HAYATA, K. (1984). "Coreoperca Kaniensis, a new fossil fish (Family Percichthyidae) from the Hiramaki Formation, the Miocene Mizunami Group, Kani City, Gifu Prefecture, Central Japan". Coreoperca Kaniensis, a new fossil fish (Family Percichthyidae) from the Hiramaki Formation, the Miocene Mizunami Group, Kani City, Gifu Prefecture, Central Japan (11): 1–20. ISSN   0385-0900.

External links

• "Siniperca Gill, 1862". Integrated Taxonomic Information System . Retrieved 8 February 2011.
• "Siniperca". National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI).