''Scortum'' is a genus of Australian fresh and
brackish
Brackish water, sometimes termed brack water, is water occurring in a natural environment that has more salinity than freshwater, but not as much as seawater. It may result from mixing seawater (salt water) and fresh water together, as in estuari ...
water
ray-finned fish
Actinopterygii (; ), members of which are known as ray-finned fish or actinopterygians, is a class of bony fish that comprise over 50% of living vertebrate species. They are so called because of their lightly built fins made of webbings of sk ...
es in the family
Terapontidae
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 ...
, the grunters.
Species include:
[Froese, R. and D. Pauly, Eds]
''Scortum''.
FishBase. 2013.
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Scortum barcoo''
( McCulloch & Waite, 1917) (Barcoo grunter)
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Scortum hillii'' (
Castelnau, 1878) (leathery grunter)
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Scortum neili
''Scortum'' is a genus of Australian fresh and brackish water ray-finned fishes in the family Terapontidae, the grunters.
Species include:Froese, R. and D. Pauly, Eds''Scortum''.FishBase. 2013.
*''Scortum barcoo'' (Allan Riverstone McCulloch, ...
''
Allen, Larson & Midgley, 1993 (Neil's grunter)
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Scortum parviceps''
(Macleay, 1883) (small-headed grunter)
References
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Taxonomy articles created by Polbot
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