Percalates
| Percalates Temporal range:
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| Australian bass (P. novemaculeatus) | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Actinopterygii |
| Order: | Centrarchiformes |
| Suborder: | Percalatoidei |
| Genus: | Percalates Ramsay & Ogilby, 1887 |
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Percalates (from Perca + Lates) is a genus of ray-finned fish native to both estuarine and freshwater habitats of southeastern Australia. They are the only members of the suborder Percalatoidei, and of their own undescribed family ('Percalatidae').[1][2][3]
Description
[edit]It contains two species, both of which were previously placed in the temperate perch genus Macquaria. However, more recent phylogenetic studies have found these two species to be the most basal members of the order Centrarchiformes, and thus more distantly related to the temperate perches than previously thought.[3][4]
The following species are known:[1]
- Percalates colonorum (Günther, 1863) - estuary perch
- Percalates novemaculeatus (Steindachner, 1866) - Australian bass
Well-preserved fossil specimens of the species †Percalates antiquus Hills, 1934 (=Macquaria antiquua) have been recovered from the Early Eocene-aged Redbank Plains Formation of Queensland, Australia.[5][6] Partial fossil remains from the Lutetian-aged marine Kuldana Formation of Pakistan have also been assigned to this species, albeit based on an older taxonomic treatment of the Percichthyidae.[7] Many other fossil remains assigned to this genus are also known the Oligocene and Miocene of Australia, though it is uncertain whether they belong to this genus or to Macquaria.[8]
References
[edit]- ^ a b "ESCHMEYER'S CATALOG OF FISHES: GENERA, SPECIES, REFERENCES". researcharchive.calacademy.org. Retrieved 2025-03-24.
- ^ Fricke, R.; Eschmeyer, W. N.; Van der Laan, R. (2025). "ESCHMEYER'S CATALOG OF FISHES: CLASSIFICATION". California Academy of Sciences. Retrieved 2025-02-10.
- ^ a b 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. Bibcode:2016MolPE..94..565S. doi:10.1016/j.ympev.2015.10.006. ISSN 1055-7903. PMID 26493227.
- ^ Arratia, Gloria; Quezada-Romegialli, Claudio (2019-04-25). "The South American and Australian percichthyids and perciliids. What is new about them?". Neotropical Ichthyology. 17: e180102. doi:10.1590/1982-0224-20180102. ISSN 1679-6225.
- ^ Hills, Edwin Sherbon; Hills, Edwin Sherbon (1934). "Tertiary fresh water fishes from southern Queensland". Memoirs of the Queensland Museum. 10: 157––174.
- ^ Rix, Alan (2022). "Coal, bees and fossils: The history and significance of the Redbank plains formation fossil sites, south East Queensland". The Proceedings of the Royal Society of Queensland. 131: 131–144. doi:10.53060/prsq.2022-11.
- ^ Gayet, M.; De Broin, F.; Rage, J. C. (1987). "Lower Vertebrates from the Early-Middle Eocene Kuldana Formation of Kohat (Pakistan): Holostei and Teleostei, Chelonia, and Squamata". Contributions from the Museum of Paleontology, the University of Michigan. hdl:2027.42/48528.
- ^ "Australian freshwater fish fossils with occurrence during Tertiary". www.peter.unmack.net. Retrieved 2025-03-24.