Skip to content
Dichistius

(c) Peter Southwood, some rights reserved (CC BY-SA), uploaded by Peter Southwood · cc-by-sa

EntityQ1436639· pop 19· linked from 11 articles

Dichistius

Sign in to save

Dichistius is a genus of centrarchiform ray-finned fishes, the galjoen fishes, native to the Atlantic coast of southern Africa (D. capensis) and the Indian Ocean coast of southern Africa (D. multifasciatus). Growing to lengths of (D. capensis) and (D. multifasciatus), both known species are popular commercial and game fishes.

Species

Galjoen

GENUS

  1. KingdomAnimalia
  2. PhylumChordata
  3. ClassTeleostei
  4. OrderPerciformes
  5. FamilyDichistiidae
Habitatmarine
Observations146
Observations recorded639

via GBIF

~1 min read

Encyclopedic overview

3 sections
Contents
  • Species
  • See also
  • References

Dichistius is a genus of centrarchiform ray-finned fishes, the galjoen fishes, native to the Atlantic coast of southern Africa (D. capensis) and the Indian Ocean coast of southern Africa (D. multifasciatus). Growing to lengths of (D. capensis) and (D. multifasciatus), both known species are popular commercial and game fishes.

==Species== The currently recognized species in this genus are: Dichistius capensis (G. Cuvier, 1831) (galjoen) Dichistius multifasciatus (Pellegrin, 1914) (banded galjoen)

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Dichistius” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.