Chelidoperca

Chelidoperca, commonly known as perchlets, is a genus of marine ray-finned fishes which is a member of the subfamily Serraninae of the family Serranidae, which includes the groupers and anthias. They are found in the Indo-Pacific region.[2]

Chelidoperca
Chelidoperca hirundinacea
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Order: Perciformes
Family: Serranidae
Subfamily: Serraninae
Genus: Chelidoperca
Boulenger, 1895
Type species
Centropristis hirundinaceus
Valenciennes, 1831[1]

Species

There are currently 10 recognized species in this genus:[2]

  • Chelidoperca hirundinacea (Valenciennes, 1831)
  • Chelidoperca investigatoris (Alcock, 1890) [3]
  • Chelidoperca lecromi Fourmanoir, 1982
  • Chelidoperca maculicauda Bineesh & Akhilesh, 2013 (Indian perchlet) [4]
  • Chelidoperca margaritifera M. C. W. Weber, 1913 (Pearly perchlet)
  • Chelidoperca occipitalis Kotthaus, 1973 (Arabian perchlet) [3]
  • Chelidoperca pleurospilus (Günther, 1880)
  • Chelidoperca santosi J. T. Williams & K. E. Carpenter, 2015 (Pogi perchlet) [5]
  • Chelidoperca stella Matsunuma & Motomura, 2016 [6]
  • Chelidoperca tosaensis Matsunuma, Yamakawa & J.T. Williams, 2017 (Red-spot perchlet)

References
  1. Eschmeyer, William N.; Fricke, Ron & van der Laan, Richard (eds.). "Chelidoperca". Catalog of Fishes. California Academy of Sciences. Retrieved 31 August 2020.
  2. Froese, Rainer and Pauly, Daniel, eds. (2019). Species of Chelidoperca in FishBase. December 2019 version.
  3. 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.
  4. Bineesh, K.K., Akhilesh, K.V., Abdussamad, E.M. & Pillai, N.G.K. (2013). "Chelidoperca maculicauda, a new species of perchlet (Teleostei: Serranidae) from the Arabian Sea". aqua, International Journal of Ichthyology. 19 (2): 71–78.CS1 maint: uses authors parameter (link)
  5. Williams, J.T. & Carpenter, K.E. (2015). "A new fish species of the subfamily Serraninae (Perciformes, Serranidae) from the Philippines" (PDF). Zootaxa. 3911 (2): 287–293.CS1 maint: uses authors parameter (link)
  6. 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.
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