Terapontidae
Grunters or tigerperches are fishes in the family Terapontidae (also spelled Teraponidae, Theraponidae or Therapontidae). The majority of terapontids are exclusively freshwater species, found in streams of Australia and New Guinea. A minority of species are found in estuarine and shallow coastal waters in the Indian Ocean and western Pacific. They grow up to 80 cm in length and feed on fishes and invertebrates.
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| Rhyncopelates oxyrhynchus | |
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| Family: | Terapontidae |
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Amniataba | |
Species
There are at least 52 species:[1]
- Genus Amniataba
- Amniataba affinis (Mees & Kailola, 1977) - tiger grunter
- Amniataba caudavittata (Richardson, 1845) - yellowtail trumpeter
- Amniataba percoides (Günther, 1864) - barred grunter
- Genus Bidyanus
- Bidyanus bidyanus (Mitchell, 1838) - silver perch, bidyan perch
- Bidyanus welchi (McCulloch & Waite, 1917) - silver bream
- Genus Hannia
- Hannia greenwayi (Vari, 1978) - Greenway's grunter
- Genus Helotes
- Genus Hephaestus
- Hephaestus adamsoni (Trewavas, 1940) - Adamson's grunter
- Hephaestus carbo (Ogilby & McCulloch, 1916) - black grunter, or coal grunter
- Hephaestus epirrhinos (Vari & Hutchins, 1978) - long-nose sooty grunter
- Hephaestus fuliginosus (Macleay, 1883) - sooty grunter
- Hephaestus habbemai (Weber, 1910) - mountain grunter
- Hephaestus jenkinsi (Whitley, 1945) - western sooty grunter
- Hephaestus komaensis (Allen & Jebb, 1993)
- Hephaestus lineatus (Allen, 1984) - lined grunter
- Hephaestus obtusifrons (Mees & Kailola, 1977) - striped grunter
- Hephaestus raymondi (Mees & Kailola, 1977) - Raymond's grunter
- Hephaestus roemeri (Weber, 1910) - Röemer's grunter
- Hephaestus transmontanus (Mees & Kailola, 1977) - Sepik grunter
- Hephaestus trimaculatus (Macleay, 1883) - threespot grunter
- Hephaestus tulliensis (De Vis, 1884)
- Genus Lagusia
- Lagusia micracanthus (Bleeker, 1860)
- Genus Leiopotherapon
- Leiopotherapon aheneus (Mees, 1963) - Fortescue grunter
- Leiopotherapon macrolepis (Vari, 1978) - large-scale grunter
- Leiopotherapon plumbeus (Kner, 1864) - silver perch
- Leiopotherapon unicolor (Günther, 1859) - spangled grunter, spangled perch
- Genus Mesopristes
- Mesopristes argenteus (De Vis, 1884) - silver grunter
- Mesopristes cancellatus (Cuvier, 1829) - tapiroid grunter
- Mesopristes elongatus (Guichenot, 1866) - plain terapon
- Mesopristes iravi (Yoshino, Yoshigou & Senou, 2002)
- Mesopristes kneri (Bleeker, 1876) - orange-spotted therapon
- Genus Pelates
- Pelates octolineatus (Jenyns, 1840) - western striped trumpeter
- Pelates qinglanensis (Sun, 1991)
- Pelates quadrilineatus (Bloch, 1790) - fourlined terapon
- Genus Pelsartia
- Pelsartia humeralis (Ogilby, 1899) - sea trumpeter
- Genus Pingalla
- Pingalla gilberti (Whitley, 1955) - Gilbert's grunter
- Pingalla lorentzi (Weber, 1910) - Lorentz's grunter
- Pingalla midgleyi (Allen & Merrick, 1984) - black-blotch grunter
- Genus Rhynchopelates
- Genus Scortum
- Scortum barcoo (McCulloch & Waite, 1917) - Barcoo grunter
- Scortum hillii (Castelnau, 1878) - leathery grunter
- Scortum neili (Allen, Larson & Midgley, 1993) - Neil's grunter
- Scortum parviceps (Macleay, 1883) - small-headed grunter
- Genus Syncomistes
- Syncomistes butleri (Vari, 1978) - Butler's grunter
- Syncomistes kimberleyensis (Vari, 1978) - Kimberley grunter
- Syncomistes rastellus (Vari & Hutchins, 1978) - Drysdale grunter
- Syncomistes trigonicus (Vari, 1978) - longnose grunter
- Genus Terapon
- Terapon jarbua (Forsskål, 1775) - Jarbua terapon
- Terapon puta (Cuvier, 1829) - small-scaled terapon
- Terapon theraps (Cuvier, 1829) - largescaled terapon
- Genus Variichthys (formerly Varia)
- Variichthys jamoerensis (Mees, 1971) - Jamur Lake grunter
- Variichthys lacustris (Mees & Kailola, 1977) - lake grunter
Timeline
References
- Froese, R. and D. Pauly, Eds. Terapontidae. FishBase. 2013.
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