Lake grunter

Species of ray-finned fish

Lake grunter

Conservation status

Vulnerable  (IUCN 3.1)[1]

Scientific classification
Kingdom:  | Animalia
Phylum:  | Chordata
Class:  | Actinopterygii
Order:  | Centrarchiformes
Family:  | Terapontidae
Genus:  | Variichthys
Species:  |

V. lacustris

Binomial name
Variichthys lacustris

(Mees & Kailola, 1977)

Synonyms[2]

* Therapon lacustris Mees & Kailola, 1977
* Varia lacustris (Mees & Kailola, 1977)

The lake grunter (Variichthys lacustris) is a species of freshwater ray-finned fish, a grunter in the family Terapontidae. It is found in southern New Guinea and in northern Queensland in Australia. It prefers to live in still water, especially in heavily vegetated swamps, flood lagoons and small lakes.[2]

## References

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1. ^ Brooks, S.; Ebner, B.; Kennard, M. (2019). "Variichthys lacustris". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2019: e.T122906734A123382351. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2019-3.RLTS.T122906734A123382351.en. Retrieved 20 November 2021.
2. ^ a b Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.). "Variichthys lacustris". FishBase. December 2019 version.

Taxon identifiers

Variichthys lacustris|

* Wikidata: Q5633061
* AFD: Variichthys_lacustris
* CoL: 7FHM8
* EoL: 207497
* FishBase: 25761
* GBIF: 2374455
* iNaturalist: 531031
* IRMNG: 11252331
* ITIS: 650223
* IUCN: 122906734
* NCBI: 1161385
* WoRMS: 1012722

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