Variichthys

Variichthys is a genus of freshwater fishes in the family Terapontidae from New Guinea and northern Australia. It was formerly known as Varia, but this name is preoccupied by a genus of moth.[1][2]

Variichthys
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Order: Perciformes
Family: Terapontidae
Genus: Variichthys
Allen, 1993
Type species
Therapon jamoerensis
Mees 1971[1]
Species

see text

Synonyms

Varia Allen, 1991

Species

The following species are classified within the genus Variichthys:[3]

  • Variichthys jamoerensis (Mees, 1971) (Jamur Lake grunter)
  • Variichthys lacustris (Mees & Kailola, 1977) (Lake grunter)
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References
  1. Eschmeyer, W. N.; R. Fricke & R. van der Laan (eds.). "Variichthys". Catalog of Fishes. California Academy of Sciences. Retrieved 12 May 2020.
  2. Gerald R. Allen (1993). "Variichthys a replacement name for the Tetrapontid genus Varia and first record of V. lacustris from Australia". Records of the Western Australian Museum. 16 (3): 459–460.
  3. Froese, Rainer and Pauly, Daniel, eds. (2019). Variichthys Species of 'Variichthys' in FishBase. December 2019 version.


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