''Pelates'', is a genus of

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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 ...

, containing 3 species.

Species

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Pelates octolineatus ''Pelates'', is a genus of ray-finned fish in the family Terapontidae, containing 3 species. Species * ''Pelates octolineatus'' (Leonard Jenyns, Jenyns, 1840) (western striped trumpeter) * ''Pelates qinglanensis'' (Sun Bao-Ling, Sun, 1991) * ' ...

'' ( Jenyns, 1840) (western striped trumpeter) * ''

Pelates qinglanensis ''Pelates'', is a genus of ray-finned fish in the family Terapontidae, containing 3 species. Species * ''Pelates octolineatus'' ( Jenyns, 1840) (western striped trumpeter) * '' Pelates qinglanensis'' (Sun, 1991) * '' Pelates quadrilineatus'' ( ...

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, 1991) * ''

Pelates quadrilineatus ''Pelates quadrilineatus'', also known as the trumpeter perch or fourlined terapon, is a species of ray-finned fish in the family Terapontidae, the grunters. It occurs in the western Indo-Pacific region, and also in the eastern Mediterranean Sea, ...

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, 1790) (Fourlined terapon) The

Eastern striped grunter The Eastern striped grunter (''Helotes sexlineatus'') is a species of marine ray-finned fish, a grunter from the family Terapontidae. It is found in the Indo-Pacific region where it is found in coastal waters and is an omnivore. Description The E ...

(''Helotes sexilineatus'') is sometimes placed in the genus ''Pelates''.

References

Terapontidae Ray-finned fish genera Taxa named by Georges Cuvier {{Centrarchiformes-stub