''Leiopotherapon'' is a genus of
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% of li ...
in the family
Terapontidae
Grunters or tigerperches are ray-finned fishes in the Family (biology), family Terapontidae (also spelled Teraponidae, Theraponidae or Therapontidae). This family is part of the Superfamily (taxonomy), superfamily Percoidea of the Order (biology ...
, the grunters. Three species are
endemic
Endemism is the state of a species being found in a single defined geographic location, such as an island, state, nation, country or other defined zone; organisms that are indigenous to a place are not endemic to it if they are also found elsew ...
to Australia, while ''L. plumbeus'' is from the
Philippines
The Philippines (; fil, Pilipinas, links=no), officially the Republic of the Philippines ( fil, Republika ng Pilipinas, links=no),
* bik, Republika kan Filipinas
* ceb, Republika sa Pilipinas
* cbk, República de Filipinas
* hil, Republ ...
. They are mainly found in fresh water, although ''H. unicolor'' also occurs in desert lakes with higher salinity.
Species include:
[Froese, R. and D. Pauly, Eds]
''Leiopotherapon''.
FishBase. 2013.
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Leiopotherapon aheneus''
(Mees, 1963) - Fortescue grunter
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Leiopotherapon macrolepis''
(Vari, 1978) - large-scale grunter
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Leiopotherapon plumbeus
''Leiopotherapon plumbeus'', known commonly as the silver perch,Froese, R. and D. Pauly, EdsCommon names of ''Leiopotherapon plumbeus''.FishBase. 2013. is a species of fish in the family Terapontidae, the grunters. It is endemic to the Philippin ...
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( Kner, 1864) - silver perch
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Leiopotherapon unicolor
''Leiopotherapon unicolor'', the spangled grunter or spangled perch is a species of ray-finned fish, a grunter from the family Terapontidae. It is endemic to Australia.
Description
''Leiopotherapon unicolor'' has a slender, oval shaped body whi ...
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(Günther, 1859) - spangled grunter, spangled perch
References
Terapontidae
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Taxonomy articles created by Polbot
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