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Syncomistes butleri Vari, 1978

Sharpnose grunter
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Common names: Butler's grunter, Sharpnose grunter
Occurrence: endemic
Salinity: freshwater
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Uses: no uses
Comments: Known from West Baines River, Western Australia to Barramundie Creek, Northern Territory (Ref. 7300). Recorded from the upper reaches of the larger river systems of the Timor Sea Drainage Division from the Drysdale river (WA) east to the Liverpool river (NT) (Ref. 44894).
National Checklist:
Country Information: https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/resources/the-world-factbook/geos/as.html
National Fisheries Authority: http://www.csiro.au/
Occurrences: Occurrences Point map
Main Ref: Allen, G.R., S.H. Midgley and M. Allen, 2002
National Database:

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Classification / Names Common names | Synonyms | Catalog of Fishes(genus, species) | ITIS | CoL | WoRMS | Cloffa

Teleostei (teleosts) > Centrarchiformes (Basses) > Terapontidae (Grunters or tigerperches)
Etymology: Syncomistes: Greek, syn, symphysis = grown together + Greek, komistes, -ou = leader, driver (Ref. 45335).
  More on author: Vari.

Environment: milieu / climate zone / depth range / distribution range Ecology

Freshwater; benthopelagic.   Temperate

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