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Variichthys

Variichthys is a genus of freshwater ray-finned 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.

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Variichthys
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Order: Centrarchiformes
Family: Terapontidae
Genus: Variichthys
Allen, 1993
Type species
Therapon jamoerensis
Mees 19711
Species

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Synonyms

Varia Allen, 1991

Variichthys is a genus of freshwater ray-finned 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.12

Species

The following species are classified within the genus Variichthys:3

References

References

  1. Fricke, Ron; Eschmeyer, William N. & van der Laan, Richard (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; Pauly, Daniel (eds.). Variichthys "Species in genus 'Variichthys'". FishBase. December 2019 version.