What is Percidae?
{{Automatic taxobox | fossil_range = [[Eocene]] to present | image = YellowPerch.jpg | image_caption = [[Yellow perch]] (''Perca flavescens'') | taxon = Percidae | authority = [[Constantine Samuel Rafinesque|Rafinesque]], 1815<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| doi = 10.11646/zootaxa.3882.1.1 | pmid = 25543675 }}</ref> | subdivision_ranks = Subfamilies | subdivision = see text }} '''Percidae''' is a family of [[ray-finned fish]]. They are endemic to [[Lake|freshwater environments]] around the world. They live in [[river]]s and [[lake]]s. == Characteristics == The family is characterized by having the dorsal fin split into two which are normally separated or have a narrow connection, although this is wider in the genus ''[[Zingel]]''. == Systematics == * Subfamily [[Percinae]] <small>Rafinesque, 1815</small> ** Genus ''[[Perch|Perca]]'' <small>[[Carl Linnaeus|Linnaeus]], 1758</small> * Subfamily [[Luciopercinae]] <small>Jordan & Evermann, 1896</small> ** Genus ''[[Sander]]'' <small>Oken, 1817</small> * Subfamily [[Etheostomatinae]] <small>Agassiz, 1850</small> ** Genus ''[[Ammocrypta]]'' <small>Jordan, 1877</small> ** Genus ''[[Etheostoma]]'' <small>Rafinesque, 1817</small> ** Genus ''[[Nothonotus]]'' <small>Putnam, 1863</small> ** Genus ''[[Percina]]'' <small>Haldeman, 1842</small> * Subfamily [[Percarininae]] <small>Gill, 1861</small> ** Genus ''[[Percarina]]'' <small>Nordmann, 1840</small> === Fossil genera === * †''[[Mioplosus]]'' <small>[[Edward Drinker Cope|Cope]], 1877</small> * †''[[Priscacara]]'' <small>Cope, 1877</small> == References == {{reflist}} {{Taxonbar|from=Q746136}} [[Category:Freshwater fish]] [[Category:Perciformes]] {{biology-stub}}