''Scortum'' is a genus of Australian fresh and
brackish
Brackish water, sometimes termed brack water, is water occurring in a natural environment that has more salinity than freshwater, but not as much as seawater. It may result from mixing seawater (salt water) and fresh water together, as in estuari ...
water
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% ...
es 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.
Species include:
[Froese, R. and D. Pauly, Eds]
''Scortum''.
FishBase. 2013.
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Scortum barcoo''
( McCulloch & Waite, 1917) (Barcoo grunter)
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Scortum hillii'' (
Castelnau, 1878) (leathery grunter)
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Scortum neili
''Scortum neili'', Neil's grunter or the Angalarri grunter, is a species of freshwater ray-finned fish, a grunter from the family Terapontidae. It is endemic to the Northern Territory
The Northern Territory (commonly abbreviated as NT; form ...
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Allen, Larson & Midgley, 1993 (Neil's grunter)
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Scortum parviceps''
(Macleay, 1883) (small-headed grunter)
References
Terapontidae
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Taxonomy articles created by Polbot
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