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Percichthys
Sign in to savePercichthys is a genus of temperate perches native to freshwater habitats in Argentina and Chile.
Species
Creole Perch
GENUS
- KingdomAnimalia
- PhylumChordata
- ClassTeleostei
- OrderPerciformes
- FamilyPercichthyidae
Habitatfreshwater
Observations26
via GBIF
Museum specimens
- Specimen records
- 12
- With media
- 1
- Family
- Percichthyidae
- Collections
- KU, UMMZ, UF, CMN, FMNH, NHMUK
- Recorded in
- Chile, Bahama Islands, Argentina
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Percichthys is a genus of temperate perches native to freshwater habitats in Argentina and Chile.
The earliest fossil member of the genus is Percichthys hondoensis from the early Eocene of Argentina.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Percichthys” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.