Yamur Lake grunter | |
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Scientific classification ![]() | |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Actinopterygii |
Order: | Perciformes |
Family: | Terapontidae |
Genus: | Variichthys |
Species: | V. jamoerensis |
Binomial name | |
Variichthys jamoerensis (Mees, 1971) | |
Synonyms [2] | |
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The Yamur Lake grunter or Jamur Lake grunter (Variichthys jamoerensis) is a species of freshwater ray-finned fish, a grunter in the family Terapontidae. It is endemic to Lake Yamur (alternatively spelled Jamur) on West Papua in Indonesia. [1]
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