Pingalla

Pingalla is a genus of freshwater fish in the family Terapontidae. These fish are native to northern Australia, but one species is also known from New Guinea.

Pingalla
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Order: Perciformes
Family: Terapontidae
Genus: Pingalla
Whitley, 1955
Type species
Pingalla gilberti
Whitley, 1955[1]
Species

3, see text

Species include:[2]

  • Pingalla gilberti (Whitley, 1955) - Gilbert's grunter
  • Pingalla lorentzi (Weber, 1910) - Lorentz's grunter
  • Pingalla midgleyi (Allen & Merrick, 1984) - black-blotch grunter

References

  1. Eschmeyer, William N.; Fricke, Ron & van der Laan, Richard (eds.). "Pingalla". Catalog of Fishes. California Academy of Sciences. Retrieved 9 May 2020.
  2. Froese, Rainer and Pauly, Daniel, eds. (2019). Pingalla Species of 'Pingalla' in FishBase. December 2019 version.


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