''Pingalla'' is a genus of freshwater

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 ...

. These fish are native to northern Australia, but one species is also known from

New Guinea New Guinea (; Hiri Motu: ''Niu Gini''; id, Papua, or , historically ) is the world's second-largest island with an area of . Located in Oceania in the southwestern Pacific Ocean, the island is separated from Australia by the wide Torr ...

. Species include: *'' Pingalla gilberti'' (Whitley, 1955) - Gilbert's grunter *'' Pingalla lorentzi'' (Weber, 1910) - Lorentz's grunter *'' Pingalla midgleyi'' (Allen & Merrick, 1984) - black-blotch grunter

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