Scortum
Sign in to saveScortum is a genus of Australian fresh and brackish water ray-finned fishes in the family Terapontidae, the grunters.
Species
GENUS
- KingdomAnimalia
- PhylumChordata
- ClassTeleostei
- OrderPerciformes
- FamilyTerapontidae
Habitatbrackish, freshwater
via GBIF
Museum specimens
- Specimen records
- 4
- Family
- Terapontidae
- Collections
- QM, MAGNT
- Recorded in
- Australia
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- taxon
- Parent taxon
- Terapontidae
- Image
- FMIB 36140 Therapon parviceps.jpeg
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- Scortum
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Scortum is a genus of Australian fresh and brackish water ray-finned fishes in the family Terapontidae, the grunters.
Species include: Scortum barcoo (McCulloch & Waite, 1917) (Barcoo grunter) Scortum hillii (Castelnau, 1878) (leathery grunter) Scortum neili Allen, Larson & Midgley, 1993 (Neil's grunter) Scortum parviceps (Macleay, 1883) (small-headed grunter)
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