Scortum
Genus of fishes
Look up scortum in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.
| Scortum | |
|---|---|
 | |
| Scortum parviceps | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Actinopterygii |
| Order: | Perciformes |
| Family: | Terapontidae |
| Genus: | Scortum Whitley, 1943 |
| Type species | |
| Therapon parviceps Macleay, 1883[1] | |
| Species | |
| 4, see text | |
Scortum is a genus of Australian fresh and brackish water fishes in the family Terapontidae, the grunters.
Species include:[2]
- 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)
References
- ^ Eschmeyer, William N.; Fricke, Ron & van der Laan, Richard (eds.). "Scortum". Catalog of Fishes. California Academy of Sciences. Retrieved 9 May 2020.
- ^ Froese, R. and D. Pauly, Eds. Scortum. FishBase. 2013.
- v
- t
- e
