Parapristipoma

Parapristipoma
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
  • Diagrammella Pellegrin, 1912

Parapristipoma is a genus of grunts 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. 1 2 Froese, Rainer, and Daniel Pauly, eds. (2013). Species of Parapristipoma in FishBase. August 2013 version.


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