Scortum
Appearance
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Scortum | |
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Scortum parviceps | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Actinopterygii |
Order: | Centrarchiformes |
Family: | Terapontidae |
Genus: | Scortum Whitley, 1943 |
Type species | |
Therapon parviceps | |
Species | |
4, see text |
Scortum is a genus of Australian fresh and brackish water ray-finned fishes in the family Terapontidae, the grunters.
Species include:[2]
- Scortum barcoo (McCulloch & Waite, 1917) (Barcoo grunter)
- Scortum hillii (Castelnau, 1878) (leathery grunter)
- Scortum neili Allen, Larson & Midgley, 1993 (Neil's grunter)
- Scortum parviceps (Macleay, 1883) (small-headed grunter)
References
[edit]- ^ Eschmeyer, William N.; Fricke, Ron & van der Laan, Richard (eds.). "Scortum". Catalog of Fishes. California Academy of Sciences. Retrieved 9 May 2020.
- ^ Froese, R. and D. Pauly, Eds. Scortum. FishBase. 2013.