Terapontidae
Terapontidae | |
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Rhyncopelates oxyrhynchus | |
Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Actinopterygii |
Order: | Perciformes |
Family: | Terapontidae |
Genera | |
Amniataba |
Grunters or tigerperches are fishes in the family Terapontidae (also spelled Teraponidae, Theraponidae or Therapontidae). Most are found in shallow coastal waters in the Indian Ocean and western Pacific, where they live in saltwater, brackish and freshwater habitats, but there are also true freshwater species found far from the coast. They grow up to 80 cm in length and feed on fishes and invertebrates.
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
Helotes sexlineatus (Quoy & Gaimard, 1825) - six-lined trumpeter
- 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
Rhynchopelates oxyrhynchus (Temminck & Schlegel, 1842) - sharpbeak terapon
- 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.