Scientific Name
Percichthys colhuapiensis
Common Name
Largemouth perch
Biology
Anal
soft rays: 8 - 11. Differs from its congeners by the mouth isognathous or prognathous (vs. hypognathous); infraorbital 2 rectangular, completely serrated ventrally (vs. irregularly shaped, smooth or partially serrated ventrally); palatine with long dentigerous process (vs. short dentigerous process); dentigerous arm of premaxilla about 2.5 times height of ascending process (vs. about 2 times or less that height); small process for insertion of ligamentum primordium on maxilla; long coronoid process, reaching posteriorly the level of the posterior border of dentary (vs. not reaching posterior border of dentary); long anguloarticular bone, with well-developed, posterodorsally directed postarticular process and mandibular sensory canal completely enclosed in bone, hyoid artery in a groove on posterior surface of dorsal hypohyal ( vs. hyoid artery piercing dorsal hypohyal); dorsal border of anterior ceratohyal only smoothly concave. Differs further by the following combination of ch