Mesopristes
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| Mesopristes | |
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| Mesopristes argenteus | |
Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Actinopterygii |
| Order: | Centrarchiformes |
| Family: | Terapontidae |
| Genus: | Mesopristes Bleeker, 1873 |
| Type species | |
| Mesopristes macracanthus, a synonym of Datnia argentea Bleeker 1873[1]
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| Species | |
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5, see text | |
| Synonyms[1] | |
Mesopristes is a genus of ray-finned 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
[edit | edit source]Species include:[2]
- Mesopristes argenteus (Cuvier, 1829) - silver grunter
- Mesopristes cancellatus (Cuvier, 1829) - tapiroid grunter
- Mesopristes elongatus (Guichenot, 1866) - plain terapon
- Mesopristes iravi (Yoshino, Yoshigou & Senou, 2002)
- Mesopristes kneri (Bleeker, 1876) - orange-spotted therapon
References
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- ^ Froese, R. and D. Pauly, Eds. Mesopristes. FishBase. 2013.
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