''Pingalla'' is a genus of freshwater

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 ...

. These fish are native to northern

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, but one species is also known from

New Guinea New Guinea (; Hiri Motu Hiri Motu, also known as Police Motu, Pidgin Motu, or just Hiri, is a language of Papua New Guinea, which is spoken in surrounding areas of Port Moresby (Capital of Papua New Guinea). It is a simplified version of ...

. Species include: *'' Pingalla gilberti'' (Whitley, 1955) - Gilbert's grunter *'' Pingalla lorentzi'' (Weber, 1910) - Lorentz's grunter *'' Pingalla midgleyi'' (Allen & Merrick, 1984) - black-blotch grunter

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