Dating from the upper Cretaceous, the centropomids are of typical percoid shape, distinguished by having two-part dorsal fins and, frequently, a concave shape to the head.
Many species in this family are important food fishes and some have been introduced outside their native ranges to provide fishing stocks. The freshwater Nile perch, a fierce predator, has become infamous, as its introduction into Lake Victoria in the 1960s has wrought devastation on the native fishes of the lake, causing the extinction of many.
Otero has recently (2004) argued that the family Centropomidae is paraphyletic, and has proposed, on the basis of cladistic analysis, promoting the subfamily Latinae to a monophyletic family Latidae.
"Centropomidae" (http://www.fishbase.org/Summary/FamilySummary.cfm?Family=Centropomidae). FishBase. Ed. Ranier Froese and Daniel Pauly. October 2004 version. N.p.: FishBase, 2004.
"Centropomidae" (TSN 167642) (http://www.itis.usda.gov/servlet/SingleRpt/SingleRpt?search_topic=TSN&search_value=167642). Integrated Taxonomic Information System. N.p.: Integrated Taxonomic Information System, 2004. Accessed on 20 December2004.
Otero, Olga. "Anatomy, Systematics and Phylogeny of Both Recent and Fossil Latid Fishes (Teleostei, Perciformes, Latidae)". Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 141 (2004): 81–133.
With the publication of Milligan's Latina fiction anthology Daughters of the Fifth Sun (Putman/Riverhead, 1994), the idea evolved for an academic conference devoted to the themes of Latina literature and identity.
Thus was born Hijas del Quinto Sol: Studies in Latina Identity, so named because of the role the book had played in the evolution of the ideas behind the conference.
Latina Letters reflected more accurately the array of topics addressed as well as the changing demographics of the United States.
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