Macquaria

Macquaria

Taxobox
name = "Maquaria"


image_caption = Golden Perch, "Maquaria ambigua"
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Chordata
classis = Actinopterygii
ordo = Perciformes
familia = Percichthyidae
genus = "Macquaria"
subdivision =
subdivision_ranks = Species

The "Macquaria" genus is a genus of medium-sized, predatory native fish in the Percichthyidae family. The "Macquaria" genus was created by merging the old genera "Plectotripes" and "Macquaria" (Murray-Darling species) and "Percalates" (East Coast species). Thus the "Macquaria" genus currently holds the two species of native perch from the Murray-Darling Basingolden perch ("Macquaria ambigua") and Macquarie perch ("Macquaria australasica") — and the two species of catadromous native perch in East Coast river systemsAustralian bass ("Macquaria novemaculeata") and estuary perch ("Macquaria colonorum"). Latest research using DNA comparisons suggests that Australian bass and estuary perch may belong in a separate genus, which may thus result in the resurrection of the "Percalates" genus.

References

* Jerry, D.R., Elphinstone, M.S and Baverstock, P.R. (2001) Phylogenetic Relationships of Australian Members of the Family Percichthyidae Inferred from Mitochondrial 12S rRNA Sequence Data. "Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution" 18: 335347


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