Mesopristes
Sign in to saveMesopristes is a genus of ray-finned fish in the family Terapontidae, the grunters. They are found in fresh, brackish and marine waters near the coast in the Indo-Pacific region.
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Within Vinony's link graph, Mesopristes is referenced by 6 other articles, and connects out to Actinopterygii, Animalia and Chordata.
It sits within the topics Mesopristes, Taxa named by Pieter Bleeker and Taxonomy articles created by Polbot.
Its subject is documented across 9 Wikipedia language editions.
Species
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GENUS
- KingdomAnimalia
- PhylumChordata
- ClassTeleostei
- OrderPerciformes
- FamilyTerapontidae
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Museum specimens
- Specimen records
- 5
- Family
- Terapontidae
- Collections
- USNM, BPBM, ANSP, AM, MNHN
- Recorded in
- Philippines, Vanuatu, Martinique
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- taxon
- Parent taxon
- Terapontidae
- Image
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- Mesopristes
- taxon name
- Mesopristes
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- topic's main category
- Category:Mesopristes
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Mesopristes is a genus of ray-finned 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== Species include: Mesopristes argenteus (Cuvier, 1829) - silver grunter Mesopristes cancellatus (Cuvier, 1829) - tapiroid grunter Mesopristes elongatus (Guichenot, 1866) - plain terapon Mesopristes iravi (Yoshino, Yoshigou & Senou, 2002) Mesopristes kneri (Bleeker, 1876) - orange-spotted therapon
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