Planiliza is a genus of mullets found in coastal marine waters, estuaries and rivers in the Indo-Pacific.
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.
Species
The following species are classified under Planiliza:
- Planiliza abu <small>(Heckel, 1843)</small> (Abu mullet)
- Planiliza alata <small>(Steindachner, 1892)</small> (Diamond mullet)
- Planiliza carinata <small>(Valenciennes, 1836)</small> (Keeled mullet)
- Planiliza haematocheilus <small>(Temminck & Schlegel, 1845)</small> (So-iny Mullet)
- Planiliza klunzingeri <small>(F. Day, 1888)</small> (Klunzinger's mullet)
- Planiliza lauvergnii <small>(Eydoux & Souleyet 1850)</small> (Eastern keelback mullet)
- Planiliza macrolepis <small>(A. Smith, 1846)</small> (Largescale mullet)
- Planiliza mandapamensis <small>J. M. Thomson, 1997</small> (Indian mullet)
- Planiliza ordensis <small>(Whitley, 1945)</small>
- Planiliza planiceps <small>(Valenciennes, 1836)</small> (Tade gray mullet)
- Planiliza subviridis <small>(Valenciennes, 1836)</small> (Greenback mullet)
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