Biology:Parapristipoma
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Short description: Genus of fishes
| Parapristipoma | |
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| Chicken grunt Parapristipoma trilineatum | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Actinopterygii |
| Order: | Perciformes |
| Family: | Haemulidae |
| Subfamily: | Plectorhinchinae |
| Genus: | Parapristipoma Bleeker, 1873 |
| Type species | |
| Perca trilineata Thunberg, 1793
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Parapristipoma is a genus of marine ray-finned fish, sweetlips belonging to the subfamily Plectorhinchinae of the family Haemulidae. The species within the genus are native to the eastern Atlantic Ocean and the western Pacific Ocean.[1]
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
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Froese, Rainer and Pauly, Daniel, eds. (2013). Species of Parapristipoma in FishBase. August 2013 version.
Wikidata ☰ Q1859579 entry
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