Genus of fishes
Percalates Perca Lates genus of ray-finned fish native to both estuarine and freshwater habitats of southeastern Australia. They are the only members of the suborder Percalatoidei , and of their own undescribed family ('Percalatidae').[ 1] [ 2] [ 3]
Description
It contains two species, both of which were previously placed in the temperate perch genus Macquaria basal members of the order Centrarchiformes , and thus more distantly related to the temperate perches than previously thought.[ 3] [ 4]
The following species are known:[ 1]
Well-preserved fossil specimens of the species †Percalates antiquus Hills , 1934Macquaria antiquua ) have been recovered from the Early Eocene -aged Redbank Plains Formation of Queensland, Australia .[ 5] [ 6] Lutetian -aged marine Kuldana Formation of Pakistan have also been assigned to this species, albeit based on an older taxonomic treatment of the Percichthyidae .[ 7] Oligocene and Miocene of Australia, though it is uncertain whether they belong to this genus or to Macquaria .[ 8]
References
^ a b "ESCHMEYER'S CATALOG OF FISHES: GENERA, SPECIES, REFERENCES" . researcharchive.calacademy.org . Retrieved 2025-03-24 .^ Fricke, R.; Eschmeyer, W. N.; Van der Laan, R. (2025). "ESCHMEYER'S CATALOG OF FISHES: CLASSIFICATION" . California Academy of Sciences . Retrieved 2025-02-10 . ^ a b Sanciangco, Millicent D.; Carpenter, Kent E.; Betancur-R., Ricardo (2016-01-01). "Phylogenetic placement of enigmatic percomorph families (Teleostei: Percomorphaceae)" . Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution . 94 (Pt B): 565– 576. Bibcode :2016MolPE..94..565S . doi :10.1016/j.ympev.2015.10.006 ISSN 1055-7903 . PMID 26493227 . ^ Arratia, Gloria; Quezada-Romegialli, Claudio (2019-04-25). "The South American and Australian percichthyids and perciliids. What is new about them?" . Neotropical Ichthyology . 17 e180102. doi :10.1590/1982-0224-20180102 ISSN 1679-6225 . ^ Hills, Edwin Sherbon; Hills, Edwin Sherbon (1934). "Tertiary fresh water fishes from southern Queensland" . Memoirs of the Queensland Museum . 10 : 157––174. ^ Rix, Alan (2022). "Coal, bees and fossils: The history and significance of the Redbank plains formation fossil sites, south East Queensland" . The Proceedings of the Royal Society of Queensland . 131 : 131– 144. doi :10.53060/prsq.2022-11 . ^ Gayet, M.; De Broin, F.; Rage, J. C. (1987). "Lower Vertebrates from the Early-Middle Eocene Kuldana Formation of Kohat (Pakistan): Holostei and Teleostei, Chelonia, and Squamata" . Contributions from the Museum of Paleontology, the University of Michigan . hdl :2027.42/48528 . ^ "Australian freshwater fish fossils with occurrence during Tertiary" . www.peter.unmack.net . Retrieved 2025-03-24 .
