Mesopristes
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| Kingdom: | Animalia
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| Phylum: | Chordata
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| Genus: | Mesopristes Bleeker, 1873
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Mesopristes is a genus of fish in the family Terapontidae, the grunters. They are found in fresh, brackish and marine waters near the coast in the Indo-Pacific region.
Species include:[1]
- (De Vis, 1884) - silver grunter
- (Cuvier, 1829) - tapiroid grunter
- Mesopristes elongatus (Guichenot, 1866) - plain terapon
- (Yoshino, Yoshigou & Senou, 2002)
- (Bleeker, 1876) - orange-spotted therapon
References[]
- ^ Froese, R. and D. Pauly, Eds. Mesopristes. FishBase. 2013.
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