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 (Heckel, 1843) (Abu mullet) Planiliza alata (Steindachner, 1892) (Diamond mullet) Planiliza carinata (Valenciennes, 1836) (Keeled mullet) Planiliza haematocheilus (Temminck & Schlegel, 1845) (So-iny Mullet) Planiliza klunzingeri (F. Day, 1888) (Klunzinger's mullet) Planiliza lauvergnii (Eydoux & Souleyet 1850) (Eastern keelback mullet) Planiliza macrolepis (A. Smith, 1846) (Largescale mullet) Planiliza mandapamensis J. M. Thomson, 1997 (Indian mullet) Planiliza ordensis (Whitley, 1945) Planiliza planiceps (Valenciennes, 1836) (Tade gray mullet) Planiliza subviridis (Valenciennes, 1836) (Greenback mullet)
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