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Sander is a genus of fish within the family Percidae. It belongs to the order Perciformes, class Teleostei, and phylum Chordata. The genus was described by Oken in 1817 and is currently accepted as a valid taxon. Its habitats include brackish and freshwater environments.
Records for this genus are held by several institutions, including CUMV, KU, UNSM, FHSM, and the Royal Ontario Museum. These records originate from the United States and Canada. The taxon has been documented in sources such as the Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary, the Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition, and the New International Encyclopedia.
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Species
GENUS
- KingdomAnimalia
- PhylumChordata
- ClassTeleostei
- OrderPerciformes
- FamilyPercidae
via GBIF
Museum specimens
- Specimen records
- 236
- Family
- Percidae
- Collections
- CUMV, KU, UNSM, FHSM, ROYAL ONTARIO MUSEUM: ROM, JFBM
- Recorded in
- United States, Canada
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Encyclopedic overview
Sander (formerly known as Stizostedion) is a genus of predatory ray-finned fish in the family Percidae, which also includes the perches, ruffes, and darters. They are also known as "pike-perch" because of their resemblance to fish in the unrelated Esocidae (pike) family. They are the only genus in the monotypic tribe Luciopercini, which is one of two tribes in the subfamily Luciopercinae.
The earliest known fossils of this genus are partial jaw and vertebrae elements from the middle Miocene (Barstovian)-aged Wood Mountain Formation of Saskatchewan, Canada.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Sander” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.