''Glaucosoma'', the pearl perches, are
perciform
Perciformes (), also called the Percomorpha or Acanthopteri, is an order or superorder of ray-finned fish. If considered a single order, they are the most numerous order of vertebrates, containing about 41% of all bony fish. Perciformes means " ...
fishes native to the
Indian Ocean
The Indian Ocean is the third-largest of the world's five oceanic divisions, covering or ~19.8% of the water on Earth's surface. It is bounded by Asia to the north, Africa to the west and Australia to the east. To the south it is bounded by t ...
waters around
Australia and the western
Pacific Ocean
The Pacific Ocean is the largest and deepest of Earth's five oceanic divisions. It extends from the Arctic Ocean in the north to the Southern Ocean (or, depending on definition, to Antarctica) in the south, and is bounded by the contin ...
. This genus is currently the only one assigned to the family Glaucosomatidae.
Species
The currently recognized species in this genus are:
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Glaucosoma buergeri
''Glaucosoma'', the pearl perches, are perciform fishes native to the Indian Ocean waters around Australia and the western Pacific Ocean. This genus is currently the only one assigned to the family Glaucosomatidae.
Species
The currently recogni ...
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J. Richardson, 1845 (deepsea jewfish)
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Glaucosoma hebraicum
''Glaucosoma hebraicum'', the West Australian dhufish , Westralian jewfish, or West Australian pearl perch, is a species of fish in the family Glaucosomatidae, the pearl perches. It is endemic to the waters around Western Australia from Shark Bay ...
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J. Richardson, 1845 (Westralian dhufish)
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Glaucosoma magnificum
''Glaucosoma'', the pearl perches, are perciform fishes native to the Indian Ocean waters around Australia and the western Pacific Ocean. This genus is currently the only one assigned to the family Glaucosomatidae.
Species
The currently recogni ...
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( J. D. Ogilby, 1915) (threadfin pearl-perch)
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Glaucosoma scapulare
''Glaucosoma'', the pearl perches, are perciform fishes native to the Indian Ocean waters around Australia and the western Pacific Ocean. This genus is currently the only one assigned to the family Glaucosomatidae.
Species
The currently recogni ...
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E. P. Ramsay, 1881 (pearl perch)
See also
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List of fish families
This is a list of fish families sorted alphabetically by scientific name. There are 525 families in the list.
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References
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Glaucosomatidae
Marine fish genera
Perciformes genera
Extant Eocene first appearances
Taxa named by Hermann Schlegel
Taxa named by Coenraad Jacob Temminck