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Trout-perches
Percopsidae
Percopsidae is a family of fish in the order Percopsiformes, with one extant genus with two species, both endemic to North America, and five described fossil genera.
They are small fish with weak fin spines, and an adipose fin similar to those of trout. They feed on insects and small crustaceans.
1 branches of this family, most-observed first · about 2 known species
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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 85978.