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Terapontidae

Index Terapontidae

Grunters or tigerperches are fishes in the family Terapontidae (also spelled Teraponidae, Theraponidae or Therapontidae). [1]

67 relations: Actinopterygii, Adamson's grunter, Albert Günther, Animal, Bidyanus bidyanus, Bidyanus welchi, Brackish water, Chordate, Coenraad Jacob Temminck, Drysdale grunter, Eocene, Fortescue grunter, Francis de Laporte de Castelnau, Fresh water, Georges Cuvier, Gilbert's grunter, Hannia, Helotes, Texas, Hermann Schlegel, Holocene, Indian Ocean, Invertebrate, Jean René Constant Quoy, John Richardson (naturalist), Joseph Paul Gaimard, Kimberley grunter, Lagusia, Large-scale grunter, Leathery grunter, Leiopotherapon, Leiopotherapon plumbeus, Leiopotherapon unicolor, Long-nose sooty grunter, Marcus Elieser Bloch, Mesopristes, Mesopristes elongatus, Midgley's grunter, Miocene, Neogene, Oligocene, Pacific Ocean, Paleocene, Paleogene, Pelates quadrilineatus, Perciformes, Peter Forsskål, Pingalla, Pleistocene, Quaternary, Rudolf Kner, ..., Scortum, Scortum barcoo, Seawater, Small-headed grunter, Sooty grunter, Striped grunter, Syncomistes, Terapon, Terapon jarbua, Terapon puta, Terapon theraps, Terapontidae, Threespot grunter, Variichthys, William Ogilby, Yamur Lake grunter, Yellowtail trumpeter. Expand index (17 more) »

Actinopterygii

Actinopterygii, or the ray-finned fishes, constitute a class or subclass of the bony fishes.

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Adamson's grunter

Adamson's grunter (Hephaestus adamsoni) is a species of fish in the Terapontidae family endemic to Lake Kutubu in the Kikori River system, Papua New Guinea.

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Albert Günther

Albert Karl Ludwig Gotthilf Günther FRS, also Albert Charles Lewis Gotthilf Günther (3 October 1830 – 1 February 1914), was a German-born British zoologist, ichthyologist, and herpetologist.

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Animal

Animals are multicellular eukaryotic organisms that form the biological kingdom Animalia.

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Bidyanus bidyanus

The silver perch (Bidyanus bidyanus) is a medium-sized freshwater fish of the family Terapontidae endemic to the Murray-Darling river system in south-eastern Australia.

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Bidyanus welchi

Bidyanus welchi, commonly known as Welch's grunter, is a species of fish native to Australia.

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Brackish water

Brackish water is water that has more salinity than fresh water, but not as much as seawater.

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Chordate

A chordate is an animal belonging to the phylum Chordata; chordates possess a notochord, a hollow dorsal nerve cord, pharyngeal slits, an endostyle, and a post-anal tail, for at least some period of their life cycle.

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Coenraad Jacob Temminck

Coenraad Jacob Temminck (31 March 1778 – 30 January 1858) was a Dutch aristocrat, zoologist, and museum director.

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Drysdale grunter

The Drysdale grunter (Syncomistes rastellus) is a species of fish in the Terapontidae family.

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Eocene

The Eocene Epoch, lasting from, is a major division of the geologic timescale and the second epoch of the Paleogene Period in the Cenozoic Era.

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Fortescue grunter

The Fortescue grunter (Leiopotherapon aheneus) is a species of freshwater fish in the Terapontidae family.

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Francis de Laporte de Castelnau

François Louis Nompar de Caumont La Force, comte de Castelnau (25 December 1810 – 4 February 1880) was a French naturalist, known also as François Laporte or Francis de Castelnau.

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Fresh water

Fresh water (or freshwater) is any naturally occurring water except seawater and brackish water.

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Georges Cuvier

Jean Léopold Nicolas Frédéric, Baron Cuvier (23 August 1769 – 13 May 1832), known as Georges Cuvier, was a French naturalist and zoologist, sometimes referred to as the "founding father of paleontology".

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Gilbert's grunter

Gilbert's grunter (Pingalla gilberti) is a species of fish in the Terapontidae family.

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Hannia

Hannia is a monotypic genus of fish in the family Terapontidae containing the single species Hannia greenwayi.

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Helotes, Texas

Helotes is a city in Bexar County, Texas, United States, located on the far northwest side of San Antonio.

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Hermann Schlegel

Hermann Schlegel (10 June 1804 – 17 January 1884) was a German ornithologist and herpetologist.

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Holocene

The Holocene is the current geological epoch.

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Indian Ocean

The Indian Ocean is the third largest of the world's oceanic divisions, covering (approximately 20% of the water on the Earth's surface).

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Invertebrate

Invertebrates are animals that neither possess nor develop a vertebral column (commonly known as a backbone or spine), derived from the notochord.

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Jean René Constant Quoy

Jean René Constant Quoy (10 November 1790 in Maillé – 4 July 1869 in Rochefort) was a French naval surgeon, zoologist and anatomist.

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John Richardson (naturalist)

Sir John Richardson FRS FRSE FLS FGS MWS LLD (5 November 1787 – 5 June 1865) was a Scottish naval surgeon, naturalist and arctic explorer.

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Joseph Paul Gaimard

Joseph Paul Gaimard (31 January 1793 – 10 December 1858) was a French naval surgeon and naturalist.

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Kimberley grunter

The Kimberley grunter (Syncomistes kimberleyensis) is a species of fish in the Terapontidae family.

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Lagusia

Lagusia micracanthus is a species of fish from the grunter (Terapontidae) family and the only member of the genus Lagusia.

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Large-scale grunter

The Kimberley spangled perch or large-scale grunter (Leiopotherapon macrolepis) is a species of freshwater fish in the family Terapontidae.

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Leathery grunter

The leathery grunter (Scortum hillii) is a species of fish in the Terapontidae family.

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Leiopotherapon

Leiopotherapon is a genus of fish in the family Terapontidae, the grunters.

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Leiopotherapon plumbeus

Leiopotherapon plumbeus, known commonly as the silver perch,Froese, R. and D. Pauly, Eds.

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Leiopotherapon unicolor

The spangled grunter or spangled perch (Leiopotherapon unicolor) is a species of fish in the family Terapontidae.

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Long-nose sooty grunter

The long-nose sooty grunter (Hephaestus epirrhinos) is a species of fish in the Terapontidae family.

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Marcus Elieser Bloch

Marcus Elieser Bloch (1723–1799) was a German medical doctor and naturalist.

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Mesopristes

Mesopristes is a genus of fish in the family Terapontidae, the grunters.

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Mesopristes elongatus

Mesopristes elongatus is a species of fish in the family Terapontidae known by the common name plain terapon.

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Midgley's grunter

Pingalla midgleyi is a species of fish in the family Terapontidae known by the common names black-blotch grunter and Midgley's grunter.

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Miocene

The Miocene is the first geological epoch of the Neogene Period and extends from about (Ma).

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Neogene

The Neogene (informally Upper Tertiary or Late Tertiary) is a geologic period and system that spans 20.45 million years from the end of the Paleogene Period million years ago (Mya) to the beginning of the present Quaternary Period Mya.

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Oligocene

The Oligocene is a geologic epoch of the Paleogene Period and extends from about 33.9 million to 23 million years before the present (to). As with other older geologic periods, the rock beds that define the epoch are well identified but the exact dates of the start and end of the epoch are slightly uncertain.

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Pacific Ocean

The Pacific Ocean is the largest and deepest of Earth's oceanic divisions.

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Paleocene

The Paleocene or Palaeocene, the "old recent", is a geological epoch that lasted from about.

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Paleogene

The Paleogene (also spelled Palaeogene or Palæogene; informally Lower Tertiary or Early Tertiary) is a geologic period and system that spans 43 million years from the end of the Cretaceous Period million years ago (Mya) to the beginning of the Neogene Period Mya.

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Pelates quadrilineatus

Pelates quadrilineatus, also known as Trumpeter perch or fourlined terapon, is a fish species.

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Perciformes

Perciformes, also called the Percomorpha or Acanthopteri, are the most numerous order of vertebrates, containing about 41% of all bony fish.

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Peter Forsskål

Peter Forsskål, sometimes spelled Pehr Forsskål, Peter Forskaol, Petrus Forskål or Pehr Forsskåhl, (11 January 1732 – 11 July 1763) was a Swedish explorer, orientalist, naturalist and an apostle of Carl Linnaeus.

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Pingalla

Pingalla is a genus of freshwater fish in the Terapontidae family.

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Pleistocene

The Pleistocene (often colloquially referred to as the Ice Age) is the geological epoch which lasted from about 2,588,000 to 11,700 years ago, spanning the world's most recent period of repeated glaciations.

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Quaternary

Quaternary is the current and most recent of the three periods of the Cenozoic Era in the geologic time scale of the International Commission on Stratigraphy (ICS).

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Rudolf Kner

Rudolf Kner (24 August 1810 – 27 October 1869) was an Austrian zoologist and ichthyologist.

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Scortum

Scortum is a genus of Australian fresh and brackish water fishes in the family Terapontidae, the grunters.

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Scortum barcoo

Scortum barcoo is a species of fish in the family Terapontidae, known by the common names Barcoo grunter and jade perch.

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Seawater

Seawater, or salt water, is water from a sea or ocean.

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Small-headed grunter

The small-headed grunter (Scortum parviceps) is a species of fish in the Terapontidae family.

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Sooty grunter

The sooty grunter (Hephaestus fuliginosus), also known by the name black bream, is a species of fish which inhabits coastal and inland freshwater creeks and rivers of northern Australia: from the upper Burdekin River in Queensland to the Daly River in the Northern Territory (records from New Guinea are a similar, but undescribed species).

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Striped grunter

The striped grunter (Hephaestus obtusifrons) is a species of fish in the Terapontidae family.

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Syncomistes

Syncomistes is a genus of Australian freshwater fish in the family Terapontidae, the grunters.

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Terapon

Terapon is a genus of fish in the Terapontidae family.

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Terapon jarbua

Terapon jarbua, Target Fish, Crescent Bass, Crescent Perch or Tiger Bass is a Grunter from the Indo-Pacific.

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Terapon puta

Terapon puta, the spiny-checked grunter, three-lined grunter, small-scaled banded grunter, small-scaled terapon, squeaking perch or two-lined grunter, is a species of fish from the Indo-Pacific region, it is a member of the grunter family, Terapontidae.

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Terapon theraps

Terapon theraps, commonly known as the largescaled terapon, is a fish native to northern Australia.

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Terapontidae

Grunters or tigerperches are fishes in the family Terapontidae (also spelled Teraponidae, Theraponidae or Therapontidae).

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Threespot grunter

The threespot grunter (Hephaestus trimaculatus) is a species of fish in the Terapontidae family.

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Variichthys

Variichthys is a genus of freshwater fishes in the Terapontidae family from New Guinea.

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William Ogilby

William Ogilby (1808–1873) was an Irish barrister and naturalist.

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Yamur Lake grunter

The Yamur Lake grunter or Jamur Lake grunter (Variichthys jamoerensis) is a species of fish in the Terapontidae family.

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Yellowtail trumpeter

The yellowtail trumpeter, Amniataba caudavittata, (also known as the flagtailed terapon, yellowtail grunter and yellow-tailed perch) is a common species of coastal marine fish of the grunter family, Terapontidae.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terapontidae

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