Latidae
| Latidae | |
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| Barramundi (L. calcarifer) | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Actinopterygii |
| Order: | Perciformes |
| Superfamily: | Percoidea |
| Family: | Latidae D. S. Jordan, 1888[1] |
| Genera | |
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The Latidae, known as the lates perches, are a family of perch-like fish found in
Centropomidae, was raised to family status in 2004 after a cladistic analysis showed the original Centropomidae were paraphyletic.[2]
The Latidae are characterised by having
vertebrae.[3]
Many species in this family are important food fishes, and some have been introduced outside their native ranges to provide fishing stocks. The freshwater Nile perch, a fierce predator, has become infamous, as its introduction into Lake Victoria in the 1950s has wrought devastation on the native fishes of the lake, causing the extinction of many endemic cichlids there.[4]
Genera
The Latidae contain three extant and one extinct genera:[3][5][6]
- †Eolates Sorbini, 1970
- Gill, 1861
- Lates Cuvier, 1828
- Psammoperca Richardson, 1848
† denotes that this taxon is extinct
References
- PMID 25543675.
- .
- ^ ISBN 978-1-118-34233-6.
- ^ Pringle, R.M. (2005). The Origins of the Nile Perch in Lake Victoria. BioScience 55 (9): 780-787.
- ^ Froese, Rainer, and Daniel Pauly, eds. (2019). "Latidae" in FishBase. December 2019 version.
- ^ Eschmeyer, William N.; Fricke, Ron & van der Laan, Richard (eds.). "Genera in the family Latidae". Catalog of Fishes. California Academy of Sciences. Retrieved 22 February 2020.
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