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Leiopotherapon
Leiopotherapon is a genus of fish in the family Terapontidae, the grunters. Three species are endemic to Australia, while L. plumbeus is from the Philippines. They are mainly found in freshwater, although H. unicolor also occurs in desert lakes with higher salinity.
4 branches of this genus, most-observed first · about 4 known species
Spangled Perch
speciesLeiopotherapon unicolor
Fortescue Grunter
speciesLeiopotherapon aheneus
Leiopotherapon plumbeus
speciesLeiopotherapon plumbeus
Kimberley Spangled Perch
speciesLeiopotherapon macrolepis
Where it lives
Recorded sightings
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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 89377.