Published June 9, 2023 | Version v1
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Terapontidae

Authors/Creators

  • 1. Central Luzon State University, Nueva Ecija, Philippines & National Fish and Wildlife Foundation, 1133 15 St. NW, Washington D. C., USA

Description

FAMILY Terapontidae

Mesopristes argenteus (Cuvier, 1829); Native; Silver Grunter; Found in wetlands and river basins across Philippines; USNM 182723; Herre 1953; LC

Mesopristes cancellatus (Cuvier, 1829); Native; Tapiroid Grunter; Found in wetlands and river basins across the Philippines; USNM 431485; Herre 1953; LC

Mesopristes iravi Yoshino, Yoshigou & Senou, 2002; Native; Found in wetlands and river basins across the Philippines; Kottelat 2013; DD

Terapon jarbua (Forsskål, 1775); Native; Jarbua Terapon; Found in river basins across the Philippines; USNM 335507; Herre 1953; LC

Leiopotherapon plumbeus (Kner, 1864); Endemic; Ayungin; Endemic to Luzon Island, Introduced elsewhere in river basins across the Philippines; ZMB 6681, BMNH 1868.7.10.1; Kottelat 2013, Bestre et al. 2018; VU

Notes

Published as part of Jamandre, Brian Wade, 2023, Freshwater fishes of the Philippines: a provisional checklist, pp. 151-181 in Zootaxa 5301 (2) on page 163, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5301.2.1, http://zenodo.org/record/8030274

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Biodiversity

Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Chordata
Order
Perciformes
Family
Terapontidae
Taxon rank
family

References

  • Herre, A. W. C. T. (1953) Check list of Philippine fishes. Fish and Wildlife Service Research Report, 20, 293 - 295.
  • Kottelat, M. (2013) The fishes of the inland waters of Southeast Asia: A catalogue and core bibliography of the fishes known to occur in freshwaters, mangroves and estuaries. Raffles Bulletin of Zoology, Supplement No. 27, 1 - 663.
  • Bestre, E. C., Lumiquio, A. M. & Napaldet, J. T. (2018) Fishes and shell diversity of major rivers of Benguet, Philippines. Journal of Wetlands Biodiversity, 8,59 - 85.