Parapristipoma
Parapristipoma is a genus of grunts native to the eastern Atlantic Ocean and the western Pacific Ocean.[1]
| Parapristipoma | |
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| Chicken grunt Parapristipoma trilineatum | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Actinopterygii |
| Order: | Perciformes |
| Family: | Haemulidae |
| Subfamily: | Plectorhynchinae |
| Genus: | Parapristipoma Bleeker, 1873 |
| Type species | |
| Parapristipoma trilineatum (Perca trilineata) Thunberg, 1793 | |
| Synonyms | |
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Species
The currently recognized species in this genus are:[1]
- Parapristipoma humile (S. Bowdich, 1825) (Guinean grunt)
- Parapristipoma macrops (Pellegrin, 1912)
- Parapristipoma octolineatum (Valenciennes, 1833) (African striped grunt)
- Parapristipoma trilineatum (Thunberg, 1793) (chicken grunt)
References
- Froese, Rainer and Pauly, Daniel, eds. (2013). Species of Parapristipoma in FishBase. August 2013 version.
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