''Mesopristes'' is a genus of
fish
Fish are aquatic, craniate, gill-bearing animals that lack limbs with digits. Included in this definition are the living hagfish, lampreys, and cartilaginous and bony fish as well as various extinct related groups. Approximately 95% ...
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 is ...
, 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 include:
[Froese, R. and D. Pauly, Eds]
''Mesopristes''.
FishBase. 2013.
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Mesopristes argenteus
''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:Froese, R. and D. Pauly, Eds''Mesopristes''.FishBase. 201 ...
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(De Vis, 1884) - silver grunter
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Mesopristes cancellatus
''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
The Indo-Pacific is a vast biogeographic region of Earth.
In a narrow sen ...
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( 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
Terapontidae
Taxonomy articles created by Polbot
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