title: Planiliza
text: # Planiliza
  
  Planiliza is a genus of mullets found in coastal marine waters, estuaries and rivers in the Indo-Pacific.
  
  ## Taxonomy
  
  The genus Planiliza was resurrected for nearly all Indo-Pacific species previously assigned to Liza because DNA-based cladistic analyses recovered Liza as polyphyletic, with some species placed as sister to the Chelon type species and nearly all Indo-Pacific species to Planiliza.
  
  ### Species
  
  The following species are classified under Planiliza by FishBase:
  
  * Planiliza abu (Heckel, 1843) (Abu mullet)
  * Planiliza affinis (Günther, 1861) (Eastern keelback mullet)
  * Planiliza alata (Steindachner, 1892) (Diamond mullet)
  * Planiliza carinata (Valenciennes, 1836) (Keeled mullet)
  * Planiliza haematocheila (Temminck & Schlegel, 1845) (So-iny Mullet)
  * Planiliza klunzingeri (F. Day, 1888) (Klunzinger's mullet)
  * Planiliza macrolepis (A. Smith, 1846) (Largescale mullet)
  * Planiliza mandapamensis J. M. Thomson, 1997 (Indian mullet)
  * Planiliza melinoptera (Valenciennes, 1836) (Otomebora mullet)
  * Planiliza persicus (Senou, J. E. Randall & Okiyama, 1995) (Persian mullet)
  * Planiliza planiceps (Valenciennes, 1836) (Tade gray mullet)
  * Planiliza ramsayi (W. J. Macleay, 1883) (Ramsay's mullet)
  * Planiliza subviridis (Valenciennes, 1836) (Greenback mullet)
  