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Definition of Family percidae
1. Noun. Active freshwater fishes; true perches and pike perches.
Generic synonyms: Fish Family
Group relationships: Order Perciformes, Order Percomorphi, Perciformes, Percomorphi
Member holonyms: Perch, Genus Perca, Perca, Genus Stizostedion, Stizostedion, Genus Percina, Percina
Lexicographical Neighbors of Family Percidae
Literary usage of Family percidae
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Geographical Distribution of Animals: With a Study of the Relations of by Alfred Russel Wallace (1876)
"... Temperate rivers, belong to the Perch family (Percidae) ; Acharnes, found only
in Guiana, belongs to the Nandidae, a family of wide range in the tropics ..."
2. Bulletin of the University of Montana by Mont University of Montana (Missoula, University of Montana (Missoula, Mont.) (1903)
"Family PERCIDAE. Perca flavescens (Mitchill). Yellow Perch. The yellow perch has
been introduced in the artificial lake mentioned, near Great Falls, ..."
3. The Penny Cyclopædia of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge by Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge (Great Britain), George Long (1839)
"... and family Percidae. The fishes of this s;i!.j are closely allied to the true
Perche.-;, but may be d.^:a- guished by the opercular bones being covered ..."
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