''Mesopristes'' is a genus of
ray-finned fish
Actinopterygii (; ), members of which are known as ray-finned fish or actinopterygians, is a class of bony fish that comprise over 50% of living vertebrate species. They are so called because of their lightly built fins made of webbings of sk ...
in the family
Terapontidae
Grunters or tigerperches are ray-finned fishes in the family Terapontidae (also spelled Teraponidae, Theraponidae or Therapontidae). This family is part of the superfamily Percoidea of the order Perciformes.
Characteristics
The Terapontidae ...
, the grunters. They are found in fresh, brackish and marine waters near the coast in the
Indo-Pacific
The Indo-Pacific is a vast biogeographic region of Earth. In a narrow sense, sometimes known as the Indo-West Pacific or Indo-Pacific Asia, it comprises the tropical waters of the Indian Ocean, the western and central Pacific Ocean, and the ...
region.
Species
Species include:
[Froese, R. and D. Pauly, Eds]
''Mesopristes''.
FishBase. 2013.
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Mesopristes argenteus''
(Cuvier
Jean Léopold Nicolas Frédéric, baron Cuvier (23 August 1769 – 13 May 1832), known as Georges Cuvier (; ), was a French natural history, naturalist and zoology, zoologist, sometimes referred to as the "founding father of paleontology". Cuv ...
, 1829) - silver grunter
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Mesopristes cancellatus''
(Cuvier, 1829) - tapiroid grunter
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Mesopristes elongatus''
( Guichenot, 1866) - plain terapon
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Mesopristes iravi''
( Yoshino, Yoshigou & Senou, 2002)
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Mesopristes kneri''
( Bleeker, 1876) - orange-spotted therapon
References
Taxonomy articles created by Polbot
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