Biology:Dinopercidae
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Short description: Family of fishes
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| Dinoperca petersi | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Actinopterygii |
| Order: | Perciformes |
| Superfamily: | Percoidea |
| Family: | Dinopercidae Heemstra & Hecht, 1986[1] |
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The Dinopercidae, known commonly as the cavebasses, are a family of marine ray-finned fish from the perciform superfamily Percoidea.[3] They are native to the western Indian and the Atlantic coasts of Africa.[2]
Genera
There are two genera within the family:[2]
- Centrarchops Fowler, 1923
- Dinoperca Boulenger, 1895
See also
References
- ↑ Richard van der Laan; William N. Eschmeyer; Ronald Fricke (2014). "Family-group names of Recent fishes". Zootaxa 3882 (2): 001–230. https://biotaxa.org/Zootaxa/article/view/zootaxa.3882.1.1/10480.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 Froese, Rainer, and Daniel Pauly, eds. (2019). "Dinopercidae" in FishBase. December 2019 version.
- ↑ J. S. Nelson; T. C. Grande; M. V. H. Wilson (2016). Fishes of the World (5th ed.). Wiley. pp. 443. ISBN 978-1-118-34233-6. https://sites.google.com/site/fotw5th/.
Further reading
- Heemstra, P. C. and T. Hecht. Dinopercidae, a New Family for the Percoid Marine Fish Genera Dinoperca Boulenger and Centrarchops Fowler (Pisces: Perciformes). Ichthyological Bulletin of the J. L. B. Smith Institute of Ichthyology, J.L.B. Smith Institute of Ichthyology, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa. 1986.
Wikidata ☰ Q2031304 entry
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