Planiliza is a genus of mullets found in coastal marine waters, estuaries and rivers in the Indo-Pacific.
| Planiliza | |
|---|---|
 | |
| Planiliza haematocheila | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| 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)
References
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