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Scortum is a genus of Australian fresh and brackish water ray-finned fishes in the family Terapontidae, the grunters.

Species

GENUS

  1. KingdomAnimalia
  2. PhylumChordata
  3. ClassTeleostei
  4. OrderPerciformes
  5. FamilyTerapontidae
Habitatbrackish, freshwater

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Museum specimens

Specimen records
4
Family
Terapontidae
Collections
QM, MAGNT
Recorded in
Australia

Wikidata facts

Instance of
taxon
Parent taxon
Terapontidae
Image
FMIB 36140 Therapon parviceps.jpeg
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taxon name
Scortum
topic's main category
Category:Scortum
taxon rank
genus
Commons category
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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