Planiliza

Planiliza is a genus of mullets found in coastal marine waters, estuaries and rivers in the Indo-Pacific.

Planiliza
Planiliza haematocheila
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Actinopterygii
Order:	Mugiliformes
Family:	Mugilidae
Genus:	Planiliza Whitley, 1945
Type species
Planiliza alata (Steindachner, 1892)

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.^[1][2]

Species

The following species are classified under Planiliza by FishBase:^[3][4]

• 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)