Percopsidae

Percopsidae
	Percopsis omiscomaycus
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Actinopterygii
Order:	Percopsiformes
Family:	Percopsidae; Agassiz, 1850
Genera
	†Amphiplaga Cope, 1877; †Erismatopterus Cope, 1870; †Libotonius Wilson, 1978; †Lindoeichthys Murry et al., 2020; †Massamorichthys Murray, 1996; Percopsis Agassiz, 1849;
Synonyms
	Libotoniidae Grande, 1988;

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.^[4]

They are small fish with weak fin spines, and an adipose fin similar to those of trout. They feed on insects and small crustaceans.^[5]

References

^ Nelson, Joseph S.; Grande, Terry C.; Wilson, Mark V. H. (2016). Fishes of the World (5th ed.). John Wiley & Sons. ISBN 9781118342336.
^ van der Laan, Richard (2016). "Family-group names of fossil fishes". {{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
^ Murray, A.M.; Brinkman, D.B.; Newbrey, M.G.; Neuman, A.G. (2020). "Earliest North American articulated freshwater acanthomorph fish (Teleostei: Percopsiformes) from Upper Cretaceous deposits of Alberta, Canada". Geological Magazine. 157 (7): 1087–1096. Bibcode:2020GeoM..157.1087M. doi:10.1017/S0016756819001328.
^ Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.). "Family Percopsidae". FishBase. April 2012 version.
^ Cohen, Daniel M. (1998). Paxton, J.R.; Eschmeyer, W.N. (eds.). Encyclopedia of Fishes. San Diego: Academic Press. p. 129. ISBN 0-12-547665-5.

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