''Lagusia micracanthus'' is a species of fish from the

grunter 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 i ...

family, Terapontidae, and the only member of the

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''Lagusia''. It is

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to rivers, both large and small, in

South Sulawesi South Sulawesi ( id, Sulawesi Selatan) is a province in the southern peninsula of Sulawesi. The Selayar Islands archipelago to the south of Sulawesi is also part of the province. The capital is Makassar. The province is bordered by Central Sula ...

, Indonesia.Vari, P.R.; and Hadiaty, K.R. (2012). ''The Endemic Sulawesi Fish Genus Lagusia (Teleostrei:: Terapontidae).'' The Raffles Bulletin of Zoology 60(1): 157–162

Appearance and behavior

Adults are silver-grey with horizontal dark stripes and yellowish fins. It can reach up to in

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, making them one of the smallest species of grunters. Females as small as have carried eggs, showing that it reach maturity at a smaller size than all other grunters. It is typically found in groups. Little is known about its feeding behavior, but one specimens had a stomach filled with insect larvae.

References

Monotypic Perciformes genera Terapontidae Fish described in 1860 {{perciformes-stub