''Mesopristes'' 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, the grunters. They are found in fresh, brackish and marine waters near the coast in the
Indo-Pacific
The Indo-Pacific is a vast biogeographic region of Earth.
In a narrow sense, sometimes known as the Indo-West Pacific or Indo-Pacific Asia, it comprises the tropical waters of the Indian Ocean, the western and central Pacific Ocean, and the ...
region.
Species include:
[Froese, R. and D. Pauly, Eds]
''Mesopristes''.
FishBase. 2013.
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Mesopristes argenteus
''Mesopristes'' is a genus of 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 include:Froese, R. and D. Pauly, Eds''Mesopristes''.FishBase. 201 ...
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(De Vis, 1884) - silver grunter
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Mesopristes cancellatus
''Mesopristes'' is a genus of 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 include:Froese, R. and D. Pauly, Eds''Mesopristes''.FishBase. 201 ...
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(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". Cuvier was a major figure in nat ...
, 1829) - tapiroid grunter
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Mesopristes elongatus
''Mesopristes elongatus'' is a species of fish in the family Terapontidae known by the common name plain terapon. It is endemic to Madagascar, where it occurs in several rivers along the eastern coast. Its populations are thought to be decreasing ...
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(Guichenot, 1866) - plain terapon
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Mesopristes iravi
''Mesopristes'' is a genus of 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 include:Froese, R. and D. Pauly, Eds''Mesopristes''.FishBase. 201 ...
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(Yoshino, Yoshigou & Senou, 2002)
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Mesopristes kneri
''Mesopristes'' is a genus of 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 include:Froese, R. and D. Pauly, Eds''Mesopristes''.FishBase. 201 ...
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(Bleeker, 1876) - orange-spotted therapon
References
Terapontidae
Taxonomy articles created by Polbot
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