Coreoperca
Coreoperca is a genus of ray-finned fish native to eastern Asia. The members of the genus Coreoperca are known as the oriental perches or eastern perches, freshwater gamefish belonging to the family Sinipercidae. These fish prefer clear, slow-moving currents on the middle reaches of rivers. Eggs are laid in May and June on plants. The eggs and fry are protected by the male. [1]
| Coreoperca Temporal range:
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| Japanese perch, C. kawamebari | |
Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Actinopterygii |
| Order: | Centrarchiformes |
| Family: | Sinipercidae |
| Genus: | Coreoperca Herzenstein, 1896[1] |
| Type species | |
| Coreoperca herzi Herzenstein, 1896[1]
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Coreoperca is a genus of ray-finned fish native to eastern Asia.[3] The members of the genus Coreoperca are known as the oriental perches or eastern perches, freshwater gamefish belonging to the family Sinipercidae. These fish prefer clear, slow-moving currents on the middle reaches of rivers. Eggs are laid in May and June on plants. The eggs and fry are protected by the male. [1]
Species
[edit]The currently recognized species in this genus are:[3][4]
- Coreoperca herzi Herzenstein, 1896 [2]
- Coreoperca kawamebari (Temminck & Schlegel, 1843)(Japanese Perch, Redfin perch)
- Coreoperca liui L. Cao & X. F. Liang, 2013[4]
- Coreoperca whiteheadi Boulenger, 1900
The following fossil species are also known:
- †Coreoperca chosun Nam, Nazarkin and Bannikov 2023 (Early Miocene of South Korea)[5]
- †Coreoperca fushimiensis Ohe & Ono, 1975 (Miocene of Japan)[6]
- †Coreoperca maruoi Yabumoto & Uyeno, 2009 (Middle Miocene of Japan)[6]
- †Coreoperca shandongensis Chen, Liu and Yan, 1999 (Middle Miocene of Shanwang Formation in Shandong, China)[6]
References
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- ^ a b Fricke, Ron; Eschmeyer, William N. & van der Laan, Richard (eds.). "Coreoperca". Catalog of Fishes. California Academy of Sciences. Retrieved 12 May 2020.
- ^ Fricke, Ron; Eschmeyer, William N. & van der Laan, Richard (eds.). "Genera in the family Sinipercidae". Catalog of Fishes. California Academy of Sciences. Retrieved 12 May 2020.
- ^ a b Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.). "Species in genus Coreoperca". FishBase. February 2014 version.
- ^ a b Cao, L. & Liang, X.-F. (2013): A new freshwater perch species of the genus Coreoperca Herzenstein (Perciformes, Serranidae, Sinipercinae) from Zhejiang Province, China. Acta Zootaxonomica Sinica, 38 (4): 891-894.
- ^ Nam, Gi-Soo; Nazarkin, Mikhail V.; Bannikov, Alexander F. (3 April 2023). "A new Chinese perch (Perciformes, Sinipercidae) from the early Miocene of South Korea". Historical Biology. 35 (4): 615–622. doi:10.1080/08912963.2022.2056842.
- ^ a b c Yabumoto, Yoshitaka; Uyeno, Teruya (2009). "Coreoperca maruoi, a new species of freshwater percoid fish from the Miocene of Iki Island, Nagasaki, Japan". Bulletin of the Kitakyushu Museum of Natural History and Human History, Series A (Natural History). 7: 103–112. doi:10.34522/kmnh.7.0_103.
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