See text Parapercidae The sandperches are a family, Pinguipedidae, of ray-finned fishes in the percomorph order Labriformes.

Sandperches are benthic fish which normally occur over sand or rubble substrates in shallow seas.

Some sandperches resemble wrasse in that they possess long dorsal and anal fins which may have a few spines and enlarged lips that appear to curl back with big canine teeth in the front of the jaws.

These fish tend to sit on the sea bed, their bodies propped up by the widely separated pelvic fins.

Some of the members of the speciose genus Parapercis, maybe all of them, are sequential hermaphrodites, all being female at sexual maturity and later changing into males which frequently have significantly different colourings and markings.