Planiliza | |
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Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Actinopterygii |
Order: | Mugiliformes |
Family: | Mugilidae |
Genus: |
Planiliza Whitley, 1945 |
Type species | |
Planiliza alata (Steindachner, 1892) |
Planiliza is a genus of mullets found in coastal marine waters, estuaries and rivers in the Indo-Pacific.
The genus Planiliza was resurrected for nearly all Indo-Pacific species 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.