Glaucosoma
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The pearl perches are members of the perciform
family
Glaucosomatidae containing a single genus
(Glaucosoma) of four species:
Perciformes
The Perciformes, also called the Percomorphi or Acanthopteri, is one of the largest orders of vertebrates, containing about 40% of all bony fish. Perciformes means perch-like. They belong to the class of ray-finned fish and comprise over 7,000 species found in almost all aquatic environments...
family
Family (biology)
In biological classification, family is* a taxonomic rank. Other well-known ranks are life, domain, kingdom, phylum, class, order, genus, and species, with family fitting between order and genus. As for the other well-known ranks, there is the option of an immediately lower rank, indicated by the...
Glaucosomatidae containing a single genus
Genus
In biology, a genus is a low-level taxonomic rank used in the biological classification of living and fossil organisms, which is an example of definition by genus and differentia...
(Glaucosoma) of four species:
- Glaucosoma buergeri Richardson, 1845
- Glaucosoma hebraicumGlaucosoma hebraicumGlaucosoma hebraicum is a species of fish, informally known as the West Australian dhufish. The local name for the species is jewfish or pearl perch, and regarded as good eating. The distribution is from Shark Bay, Western Australia to the Archipelago of the Recherche.The pearlescent, silver-grey,...
Richardson, 1845 - Glaucosoma magnificum (Ogilby, 1915)
- Glaucosoma scapulare Ramsay in Macleay, 1881