# Percalates

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{{Short description|Genus of fishes}}
{{Automatic taxobox
| fossil_range = {{fossil range|Early Eocene|recent}}
| image = Australian bass 2.jpg
| image_caption = [Australian bass](/source/Australian_bass) (''P. novemaculeatus'')
| taxon = Percalates
| authority = [Ramsay](/source/Edward_Pierson_Ramsay) & [Ogilby](/source/James_Douglas_Ogilby), 1887
| subdivision_ranks = Species
| subdivision = * ''[P. colonorum](/source/Percalates_colonorum)''
* ''[P. novemaculeatus](/source/Percalates_novemaculeatus)''
* †''[P. antiquus](/source/Percalates_antiquus)'' (fossil)
}}

'''''Percalates''''' (from ''[Perca](/source/Perca_(fish))'' + ''[Lates](/source/Lates)'') is a [genus](/source/genus) of [ray-finned fish](/source/Actinopterygii) native to both estuarine and freshwater habitats of southeastern Australia. They are the only members of the suborder '''Percalatoidei''', and of their own [undescribed](/source/Undescribed_taxon) [family](/source/Family_(taxonomy)) ('[Percalatidae](/source/Percalatidae)').<ref name=":0">{{Catalog of Fishes |genid=7408|title=Percalates Ramsay & Ogilby 1887|access-date=2026-05-24}}</ref><ref name=fishbase>{{FishBase|genus=Percalates|access-date=24 May 2026}}</ref><ref name=":13">{{Catalog of Fishes |date=May 2026 |title=ESCHMEYER'S CATALOG OF FISHES: CLASSIFICATION |url=https://www.calacademy.org/eschmeyers-catalog-of-fishes-classification |access-date=24 May 2026}}</ref><ref name=":1">{{Cite journal |last1=Sanciangco |first1=Millicent D. |last2=Carpenter |first2=Kent E. |last3=Betancur-R. |first3=Ricardo |date=2016-01-01 |title=Phylogenetic placement of enigmatic percomorph families (Teleostei: Percomorphaceae) |journal=Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution |volume=94 |issue=Pt B |pages=565–576 |doi=10.1016/j.ympev.2015.10.006 |pmid=26493227 |bibcode=2016MolPE..94..565S |issn=1055-7903|doi-access=free }}</ref>

== Description ==
It contains two species, both of which were previously placed in the [temperate perch](/source/temperate_perch) genus ''[Macquaria](/source/Macquaria)''. However, more recent phylogenetic studies have found these two species to be the most [basal](/source/Basal_(phylogenetics)) members of the order [Centrarchiformes](/source/Centrarchiformes), and thus more distantly related to the temperate perches than previously thought.<ref name=":1" /><ref>{{Cite journal |last1=Arratia |first1=Gloria |last2=Quezada-Romegialli |first2=Claudio |date=2019-04-25 |title=The South American and Australian percichthyids and perciliids. What is new about them? |journal=Neotropical Ichthyology |language=en |volume=17 |article-number=e180102 |doi=10.1590/1982-0224-20180102 |issn=1679-6225|doi-access=free }}</ref>

The following species are known:<ref name=fishbase/><ref name=cof-genus>{{Catalog of Fishes |genus=Percalates|access-date=2026-05-24}}</ref>

* ''[Percalates colonorum](/source/Estuary_perch)'' <small>([Günther](/source/Albert_G%C3%BCnther), 1863) -</small> [estuary perch](/source/estuary_perch)
* [''Percalates novemaculeatus''](/source/Australian_bass) <small>([Steindachner](/source/Franz_Steindachner), 1866)</small> <small>-</small> [Australian bass](/source/Australian_bass)
Well-preserved fossil specimens of the species †''[Percalates antiquus](/source/Percalates_antiquus)'' <small>[Hills](/source/Edwin_Sherbon_Hills), 1934</small> (=''Macquaria antiquua'') have been recovered from the [Early Eocene](/source/Early_Eocene)-aged [Redbank Plains Formation](/source/Redbank_Plains_Formation) of [Queensland, Australia](/source/Queensland).<ref>{{Cite journal |last1=Hills |first1=Edwin Sherbon |last2=Hills |first2=Edwin Sherbon |date=1934 |title=Tertiary fresh water fishes from southern Queensland |url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/part/214960 |journal=Memoirs of the Queensland Museum |volume=10 |pages=157––174}}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal |last=Rix |first=Alan |date=2022 |title=Coal, bees and fossils: The history and significance of the Redbank plains formation fossil sites, south East Queensland |url=https://search.informit.org/doi/abs/10.3316/informit.237428598989426 |journal=The Proceedings of the Royal Society of Queensland |volume=131 |pages=131–144 |doi=10.53060/prsq.2022-11 }}</ref> Partial fossil remains from the [Lutetian](/source/Lutetian)-aged marine [Kuldana Formation](/source/Kuldana_Formation) of Pakistan have also been assigned to this species, albeit based on an older taxonomic treatment of the [Percichthyidae](/source/Percichthyidae).<ref>{{Cite journal |last1=Gayet |first1=M. |last2=De Broin |first2=F. |last3=Rage |first3=J. C. |date=1987 |title=Lower Vertebrates from the Early-Middle Eocene Kuldana Formation of Kohat (Pakistan): Holostei and Teleostei, Chelonia, and Squamata |url=https://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/handle/2027.42/48528 |journal=Contributions from the Museum of Paleontology, the University of Michigan |hdl=2027.42/48528 |language=en-US}}</ref> Many other fossil remains assigned to this genus are also known the [Oligocene](/source/Oligocene) and [Miocene](/source/Miocene) of Australia, though it is uncertain whether they belong to this genus or to ''Macquaria''.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Australian freshwater fish fossils with occurrence during Tertiary |url=https://www.peter.unmack.net/biogeog/html/appendices/appendixi.html |access-date=2025-03-24 |website=www.peter.unmack.net}}</ref>

== References ==
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Category:Centrarchiformes
Category:Actinopterygii genera
Category:Extant Ypresian first appearances

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