Editing Temperate perch (section)

=== Classification ===
The temperate perches are closely related to the [[Centrarchidae|freshwater sunfish]] of North America, with both belonging to the suborder [[Centrarchoidei]]. They were previously also thought to be allied with the temperate basses of the family [[Moronidae]] and the seabasses in the family [[Serranidae]], but are now thought to not be closely related.<ref name=":13">{{Cite web |last=Fricke |first=R. |last2=Eschmeyer |first2=W. N. |last3=Van der Laan |first3=R. |date=2025 |title=ESCHMEYER'S CATALOG OF FISHES: CLASSIFICATION |url=https://www.calacademy.org/eschmeyers-catalog-of-fishes-classification |access-date=2025-02-10 |website=California Academy of Sciences |language=en}}</ref>

Almost 40 [[species]] of percichthyids are now recognised, grouped in 11–12 [[genus|genera]]. Most but not all are exclusively freshwater fishes.  They are mainly found in [[Australia]], but species are also found in southern South America (''Percichthys'').

More recently the Chinese perches have been classified in the separate family [[Sinipercidae]] while the genus ''[[Percilia]]'' has been found not to be closely related to either that family or the Percichthyidae and has been placed in its own [[monotypy|monotypic]] family [[Perciliidae]].<ref name = Nelson5>{{cite book  |title=Fishes of the World |edition=5th |author1=J. S. Nelson |author2=T. C. Grande |author3=M. V. H. Wilson |year=2016 |pages=442 |publisher=Wiley |ISBN= 978-1-118-34233-6 |url=https://sites.google.com/site/fotw5th/ }}</ref> The two [[catadromous]] species in ''[[Percalates]]'' are found in Australia and were previously placed in ''Macquaria'', but phylogenetic analyses have found them to be the most [[Basal (phylogenetics)|basal]] members of the whole order.<ref name="Lavoue">{{cite journal |author1=Sébastien Lavoué |author2=Kouji Nakayama |author3=Dean R. Jerry |author4=Yusuke Yamanoue |author5=Naoki Yagishita |author6=Nobuaki Suzuki |author7=Mutsumi Nishida |author8=Masaki Miya |display-authors=3 |year=2014 |title=Mitogenomic phylogeny of the Percichthyidae and Centrarchiformes (Percomorphaceae): comparison with recent nuclear gene-based studies and simultaneous analysis |journal=Gene |volume=549 |issue=1 |pages=46–57 |doi=10.1016/j.gene.2014.07.033}} Abstract</ref>

The following 8 genera are classified within the family Percichthyidae:<ref name = Nelson5/><ref name = Fishbase/>

* ''[[Bostockia]]'' <small>[[Francis de Laporte de Castelnau|Castelnau]], 1873</small>
* ''[[Gadopsis]]'' <small>[[John Richardson (naturalist)|Richardson]], 1848</small>
* ''[[Guyu (fish)|Guyu]]'' <small>[[Bradley James Pusey|Pusey]] & [[Mark J. Kennard|Kennard]], 2001</small>
* ''[[Maccullochella]]'' <small>[[Gilbert Percy Whitley|Whitley]], 1929</small>
* ''[[Macquaria]]'' <small>[[Georges Cuvier|Cuvier]], 1830</small>
* ''[[Nannatherina]]'' <small>[[Charles Tate Regan|Regan]], 1906</small>
* ''[[Nannoperca]]'' <small>[[Albert Günther|Günther]], 1861</small>
* ''[[Percichthys]]'' <small>[[Charles Frédéric Girard|Girard]], 1855</small>
In addition, two [[Extinction|extinct]] genera are known exclusively from [[fossil]] remains:<ref name=":0" />

* †''[[Plesiopercichthys]]'' <small>Agnolin ''et al''., 2014</small> ([[Pliocene]] of Argentina)
* †''[[Santosius]]'' <small>Arratia, 1982</small> (latest [[Oligocene]]/earliest [[Miocene]] of Brazil)