Siniperca

Siniperca or the Chinese perch is a genus of centrarchiform ray-finned fish native to freshwater habitats in continental East Asia. Although its native ranges can extend to northern Vietnam, the majority of the species are entirely or largely restricted to China.^[3]

Siniperca
Leopard mandarin fish (S. scherzeri)
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Actinopterygii
Order:	Centrarchiformes
Family:	Sinipercidae
Genus:	Siniperca T. N. Gill, 1862[1]
Type species
Siniperca chuatsi Basilewsky, 1855[1]
Synonyms[2]
Plectroperca W. K. H. Peters, 1864 Actenolepis Dybowski, 1872 Coreosiniperca P. W. Fang & L. T. Chong, 1932 Acroperca G. S. Myers, 1933

Species

The currently recognized species in this genus are:^[3]

• Siniperca chuatsi (Basilewsky, 1855) (mandarin fish)
• Siniperca fortis (S. Y. Lin, 1932)
• Siniperca kneri Garman, 1912 (big-eye mandarin fish)
• Siniperca liuzhouensis C. W. Zhou, X. Y. Kong & S. R. Zhu, 1987
• Siniperca loona H. W. Wu, 1939 ^[4]
• Siniperca obscura Nichols, 1930
• Siniperca roulei H. W. Wu, 1930
• Siniperca scherzeri Steindachner, 1892 (golden or leopard mandarin fish)
• Siniperca undulata P. W. Fang & L. T. Chong, 1932
• Siniperca vietnamensis Đ. Y. Mai, 1978