Editing Temperate perch (section)

{{Short description|Family of fishes}}
{{Automatic taxobox
| name = Temperate perches
| fossil_range = {{fossil range|Early Paleocene|present|earliest=Maastrichtian}}
| image = Perca trucha (Percichthys trucha).JPG
| image_caption = ''[[Percichthys trucha]]''
| taxon = Percichthyidae
| authority = [[David Starr Jordan|D. S. Jordan]] & [[Carl H. Eigenmann|C. H. Eigenmann]], 1890<ref name = VDLEF>{{cite journal | author1 = Richard van der Laan | author2 = William N. Eschmeyer | author3 = Ronald Fricke | name-list-style = amp |year=2014 | title = Family-group names of Recent fishes | url = https://biotaxa.org/Zootaxa/article/view/zootaxa.3882.1.1/10480 | journal = Zootaxa | volume = 3882 | issue =2 | pages = 001–230}}</ref>
| subdivision_ranks = Genera
| subdivision_ref = <ref name = Fishbase>{{FishBase family | family = Percichthyidae| month = December | year = 2019}}</ref>
| subdivision = see text
| synonyms = Gadopsidae
}}

[[File:Murray cod02 melb aquarium.jpg|thumb|Murray cod (''[[Maccullochella peelii peelii]]'')]]
'''Percichthyidae''', the '''temperate perches,''' are a family of freshwater [[Actinopterygii|ray-finned fish]] found in Australia and southern South America. Formerly placed in the order [[Perciformes]], they are now placed in the order [[Centrarchiformes]].

The name Percichthyidae derives from the Latin ''perca'' for perch and Ancient Greek ἰχθύς, ''ichthys'' for fish.