| Pelates | |
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| Fourlined terapon Pelates quadrilineatus | |
Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Actinopterygii |
| Order: | Centrarchiformes |
| Family: | Terapontidae |
| Genus: | Pelates Cuvier, 1829 |
| Type species | |
| Pelates quadrilineatus (Cuvier, 1829)1
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Pelates, is a genus of ray-finned fish in the family Terapontidae, containing 3 species.2
Species
- Pelates octolineatus (Jenyns, 1840) (western striped trumpeter)
- Pelates qinglanensis (Sun, 1991)
- Pelates quadrilineatus (Bloch, 1790) (Fourlined terapon)
The Eastern striped grunter (Helotes sexlineatus) is sometimes placed in the genus Pelates.3
References
References
- Fricke, Ron; Eschmeyer, William N. & van der Laan, Richard, eds. (10 October 2025). "Pelates". Catalog of Fishes. California Academy of Sciences.
- Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.). "Species in genus Pelates". FishBase. December 2020 version.
- Fricke, Ron; Eschmeyer, William N. & van der Laan, Richard, eds. (10 October 2025). "Species in the genus Pelates". Catalog of Fishes. California Academy of Sciences.