''Chelidoperca'', commonly known as perchlets, is a genus of marine
ray-finned fish
Actinopterygii (; ), members of which are known as ray-finned fishes, is a class of bony fish. They comprise over 50% of living vertebrate species.
The ray-finned fishes are so called because their fins are webs of skin supported by bony or hor ...
es which is a member of the
subfamily
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Serraninae
The Serraninae is a subfamily of perciform ray-finned fishes in the family Serranidae. It is made up of ten genera and 87 species.
Characters
The fishes in the subfamily Serraninae, the serranines, are small species within the family Serranidae. ...
of the
family
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Serranidae
The Serranidae are a large family of fishes belonging to the order Perciformes. The family contains about 450 species in 65 genera, including the sea basses and the groupers (subfamily Epinephelinae). Although many species are small, in some case ...
, which includes the
groupers
Groupers are fish of any of a number of genera in the subfamily Epinephelinae of the family Serranidae, in the order Perciformes.
Not all serranids are called "groupers"; the family also includes the sea basses. The common name "grouper" i ...
and
anthias
Anthias are members of the family Serranidae and make up the subfamily Anthiinae. Anthias make up a sizeable portion of the population of pink, orange, and yellow reef fishes seen swarming in most coral reef photography and film. The name Anthi ...
. They are found in the
Indo-Pacific
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region.
Species
There are currently 19 recognized species in this genus:
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* '' Chelidoperca africana'' Cadenat, 1960 (African perchlet)
* '' Chelidoperca barazeri'' S.-H. Lee, M.-Y. Lee, Matsunuma & Chen, 2019 (Barazer's perchlet)
* '' Chelidoperca cerasina'' Ogino, S.-H. Lee, Chen & Matsunuma, 2019 (Cherry perchlet)
* '' Chelidoperca flavimacula'' Psomadakis, Gon & Htut, 2021 (Yellow-spotted perchlet)
* '' Chelidoperca flavolineata'' Matsunuma, Tan & Peristiwady, 2020 (Yellow-banded perchlet)
* '' Chelidoperca formosa'' ]Tang
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Chinese states and dynasties
* Jin (Chinese state) (11th century – 376 BC), a state during the Spring and Autumn period, called Tang (唐) b ...
& Ho, 2021 (Taiwanese perchlet)
* '' Chelidoperca hirundinacea'' (Valenciennes
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, 1831)
* '' Chelidoperca investigatoris'' ( Alcock, 1890) [Bineesh, K.K., Akhilesh, K.V., Abdussamad, E.M., Pillai, N.G.K., Thiel, R., Jena, J.K. & Gopalakrishnan, A. (2014)]
Redescriptions of ''Chelidoperca investigatoris'' (Alcock, 1890) and ''Chelidoperca occipitalis'' Kotthaus, 1973 (Perciformes: Serranidae) from the south-west coast of India.
''Indian Journal of Fisheries, 61 (4): 117-122.''
* '' Chelidoperca lecromi'' Fourmanoir, 1982
* '' Chelidoperca leucostigmata'' S.-H. Lee, M.-Y. Lee, Matsunuma & Chen, 2019 (White-spotted perchlet)
* '' Chelidoperca maculicauda'' Bineesh & Akhilesh, 2013 (Indian perchlet) [
* '' Chelidoperca pleurospilus'' ( Günther, 1880)
* '' Chelidoperca santosi'' J. T. Williams & K. E. Carpenter, 2015 (Pogi perchlet) ][Matsunuma, M. & Motomura, H. (2016): ''Chelidoperca stella'', a new species of perchlet (Perciformes: Serranidae) from the Andaman Sea, eastern Indian Ocean. ''Zootaxa, 4092 (3): 388–400.'']
* '' Chelidoperca tosaensis'' Matsunuma, Yamakawa & J.T. Williams, 2017 (Red-spot perchlet)
References
Serraninae
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