Biology:Lake grunter
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Short description: Species of fish
| Lake grunter | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Actinopterygii |
| Order: | Perciformes |
| Family: | Terapontidae |
| Genus: | Variichthys |
| Species: | V. lacustris
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| Binomial name | |
| Variichthys lacustris (Mees & Kailola, 1977)
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The lake grunter (Variichthys lacustris) is a species of freshwater ray-finned fish, a grunter in the family Terapontidae. It is found in southern New Guinea and in northern Queensland in Australia. It prefers to live in still water, especially in heavily vegetated swamps, flood lagoons and small lakes.[2]
References
- ↑ Brooks, S.; Ebner, B.; Kennard, M. (2019). "Variichthys lacustris". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2019: e.T122906734A123382351. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2019-3.RLTS.T122906734A123382351.en. https://www.iucnredlist.org/species/122906734/123382351. Retrieved 20 November 2021.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Froese, Rainer and Pauly, Daniel, eds. (2019). "Variichthys lacustris" in FishBase. December 2019 version.
Wikidata ☰ Q5633061 entry
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