Pelates

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Pelates
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Fourlined terapon Pelates quadrilineatus
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Order: Centrarchiformes
Family: Terapontidae
Genus: Pelates
Cuvier, 1829
Type species
Pelates quadrilineatus
(Cuvier, 1829) [1]

Pelates, is a genus of ray-finned fish in the family Terapontidae, containing 3 species. [2]

Species

The Eastern striped grunter (Helotes sexlineatus) is sometimes placed in the genus Pelates. [3]

References

  1. ↑ Fricke, Ron; Eschmeyer, William N. & van der Laan, Richard, eds. (10 October 2025). "Pelates". Catalog of Fishes . California Academy of Sciences.
  2. ↑ Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.). "Species in genus Pelates". FishBase . December 2020 version.
  3. ↑ Fricke, Ron; Eschmeyer, William N. & van der Laan, Richard, eds. (10 October 2025). "Species in the genus Pelates". Catalog of Fishes . California Academy of Sciences.


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